Wal-Mart highlights job saver in McAlester campaign
Wal-Mart filmed an advertising campaign in McAlester after a store manager helped save 150 jobs at Charles Komar and Sons Seamstoff Corp. Komar planned to close the plant by Labor Day, but local financing and a Wal-Mart agreement kept production in town. The effort aligns with Wal-Mart’s Buy American Bring it Home to the USA initiative.
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Mcalester
Okla
Wal-Mart
Charles Komar and Sons Seamptofe Corp
Jack Inman
Bentonville
Ark
Offi
Cials
Komar
McAlester Economic Development Service
Rural doctors join study net to improve care and cut costs
In Michigan and elsewhere practice-based research networks let rural clinicians collaborate to study common ailments from musculoskeletal pain to insomnia. Led by Hickner and McKeag, networks like UPRNET in Escanaba link 12 practices and 3 more joining, aiming to sharpen primary care and reduce dependence on large teaching hospitals.
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Hickner
East Lansing
Doug McKeag
Michigan Research Network
Lower Peninsula
Upper Peninsula
United States
Paul Nutting
University of Colorado
States
Canada
Clinton
Nutting
Michigan State University
College of Human Medicine
Escanaba
Uprnet
Catherine Kroll
Gwinn
Raymond Hockstad
ASPN
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Richard L. Holloway
Medical College of Wisconsin
Journal of Family Practice
Holloway
Jesse Jackson Summit Calls for Nonviolence in Urban Youth Voices
At the anti violence summit led by Jesse Jackson, speakers urged that rappers expressing urban youth frustration should not be assaulted. The discussion focused on linking art and protest with nonviolent methods to address violence and systemic issues.
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Jesse Jackson
Biologist pursues Sasquatch on Vancouver Island
John Bindernagel, a 52 year old Courtenay biologist, points to 16 inch tracks found in Strathcona Park in 1988 and a 1992 ape like call near Comox Lake as evidence for Sasquatch on Vancouver Island. Tan MacTaggart Cowan questions existence but respects belief as a charming long held tale.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
John Bindernagel
Courtenay
Bindernagel
Strathcona
Bindemagel
Comox Lake
North America
Pacific Northwest
Tan MacTaggart-Cowan
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Ozawa
Lincoln
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MAZDA
Mitsubishi
Kevin Downs
Cae
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Glen
Raiain
Brazil
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Subway
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