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France To Pay Russia One Billion For 14 Soyuz Carrier RocketsMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2010 France has put aside some $1 billion to buy 14 Soyuz carrier rockets from Russia, French satellite launch firm Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said Tuesday. "We have ordered 14 Soyuzes from the Russian Federation; the contract's cost is about $1 billion. These are ambitious plans," Le Gall said at a Russian-French business forum, held as part of President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to France. His speech was broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The new deal marks another step in cooperation ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) March 8, 2010US companies will spend more this year on digital and online advertising and marketing than on print for the first time ever, according to a study released on Monday. Companies will spend 119.6 billion dollars on online and digital strategies and 111.5 billion dollars on newspaper and magazine advertisements and other print campaigns, according to the study by California-based Outsell. O ... more  
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 9, 2010University of Pittsburgh researchers have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights and determined that the increasingly popular lamps strike the best balance between brightness, affordability, and energy and environmental conservation when their life span-from production to disposal-is considered. LEDs consist of clusters of tiny, high-inten ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2010China's airlines plan to buy 218 planes this year to help meet an expected surge in demand for air travel in the coming years, state media reported Monday. Airline traffic in China is expected to exceed 700 million passengers a year by 2020 and then double that figure by 2030, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). Passenger number ... more |
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Outside View: U.S. economic pictureCollege Park, Md. (UPI) Mar 4, 2009 Friday, the U.S. Labor Department will release February employment figures. Since December 2007, the U.S. economy has shed 8.4 million jobs. A sharp uptick in employment would indicate the recession is ending, while more job losses would indicate a double dip recession is more imminent. In recent weeks, new jobless claims have climbed fueling pessimism among economists. The consensus forecast is for a jobs loss of about 50,000 and for unemployment to tick up from 9.7 percent to 9.8 perce ... read more |
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