Cedar Rapids Seeks New Industry Amid Competition for Jobs
Cedar Rapids weighs shift from blue to white collar growth focusing on durable goods or computer technology. Local leaders, including Olberg and Arnold, push for agriculture research and high tech to complement strong labor, power capacity, and central markets while noting gas limits and regional competition.
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Cedar Rapids
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David Heim
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Cedar Rapids tax incentives lure industries with exemptions
Fourteen industries in Cedar Rapids will save about 1.8 million in property taxes over five years under a city program that exempts 75 percent of new manufacturing investments in year one and declines to 15 percent by year five. Major firms include Cargill, FMC, Rockwell, Square D. The measure, adopted after state legislation, reduces city and school revenues and has drawn mixed reactions from commercial leaders.
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Olberg
Chicago
al Williams
General Mills
Cedar Rapids
Williams
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Bob Carson
Hawkeye Labor Council
Carson
Joe Hladky Jr
the Gazette Co
Iowa- Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Arnold
Tennessee
Nissan Manufacturing Co
Japan
Nissan
Smyrna
Tenn
Iowa General Assembly
Dale Piersall
Cargill, Goss Co
FMC Corp
Rockwell International
Square D Co
Judd’s Solution Tomorrow Race Puzzle
By Judd Four Race total time limit 20 minutes. Directions: rearrange each row of letters to form a 2 to 7 letter word. To total points of your words, use scoring directions to right of each row. 7 letter words get 50 point bonus. Blanks used as any letter have no point value. Proper nouns foreign slang or hyphenated words forbidden.
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Experts seek air crash clues after Air Florida 737 crash
About two dozen government experts from the National Transportation Safety Board work as air crash detectives at a motel command post near the Potomac crash site. Teams study human factors, air traffic control, weather, aircraft structure, hydraulics and electronics, maintenance, witnesses, and airport operations to determine causes and prevent future deaths.
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Potomac River
National Transportation Safety Board
Tansportation Safety
Robert Buckhorn
Brian Blackborne
District of Columbia
Arland Williams
Atlanta
Blackborne
Buckhorn
National Aiport
Air Florida
Miami
Federal Aviation Administration
National
Pope hopes Britain trip knits Catholic Anglican ties
Pope John Paul II prayed that his May visit to Britain would help end four and a half centuries of split between Roman Catholicism and the Church of England. He spoke to about 30,000 at St Peter's Square urging the trip to accelerate their union while noting Anglicans resist papal infallibility. The visit runs May 28 to June 2, and would make him the first reigning pope to set foot in Britain.
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John Paul II
Britain
Vatican
Catherine of Aragon
John Paul
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