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From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo
A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Pakistan, Karachi (Pakistan), Graduation, Pervez Musharraf
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Motorola Solutions CEO seems to thrive on being underrated, beating odds
Tribune staff reporterWhen Motorola Inc. first came courting Greg Brown, he wasn't interested. The year was 1998 and Brown, a division president at Ameritech in Chicago, was weighing an offer from Motorola against one from Micromuse, a publicly traded software company in...Tags: Motorola, Inc., Safety of Citizens, Regional Authority, Carl Icahn, IBM
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HP to close call center this year
Winchester is losing a company that at one time was one of its largest employers.
Officials with the Hewlett-Packard company in early December informed employees at its Winchester call center, located on Bypass Road, that it would be closing the center...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Michael H. Jordan dies at 73; executive with CBS, PepsiCo and Westinghouse
Michael H. Jordan, a skilled troubleshooter who held leadership roles at CBS, PepsiCo and Westinghouse, died Tuesday in New York from complications related to cancer, CBS Corp. announced. He was 73.
Jordan was instrumental in crafting the media...Tags: New York, Michael Jordan, PepsiCo Inc., U.S. Navy, Television Industry
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Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)
The Swampby Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the......Tags: Environmental Issues, Commuting, Social Issues, Land Resources, Career and Workplace
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Executive led General Motors during record slump in the '80s
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRoger B. Smith, the General Motors executive who led the world's largest automaker from record profits to record losses in the 1980s and was vilified in the documentary "Roger & Me," died near Detroit on Thursday. He was 82. The former chairman and...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Michael Moore, Career and Workplace, Marketing, Automotive Equipment
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- March personal income and spending -- March construction spending -- Earnings: Alberto-Culver Co.; Anadarko Petroleum Corp.; Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.; Centex Corp.; CNA Financial Corp.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Genworth Financial Inc.;...Tags: Energy Resources, DTE Energy Company, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Symantec Corp., Cablevision Systems Corp.
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Downsizing Arnold
Times Staff WritersArnold Schwarzenegger walks into Lucca, one of his favorite restaurants near the Capitol, its walls dominated by an enormous painting of a goose and a copper-framed mirror as wide as a Hummer. Bursting from his suit, his hair that peculiar Arnold orange,...Tags: Career and Workplace, John Burton, Boeing Co., Jerry Brown, John Jay
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United to outsource customer call center
United Airlines has signed a contract with Electronic Data Systems Inc. to open a customer call center in Nova Scotia next month that eventually will employ 200, a United spokeswoman said Wednesday. Frank Larkin, a spokesman for the International...Tags: Expedia Incorporated, Consumers, Travel, Air Transportation, India
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Bethlehem's Martin Tower might soon have new owner
Of The Morning CallThe landmark headquarters of the former Bethlehem Steel Corp., the 21-story Martin Tower in west Bethlehem, soon might be sold to a New Jersey development group that includes Bethlehem developer Joseph Posh Sr. Posh, who owns Posh Construction Inc., said...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Real Estate Agents, Legal Services, Allentown
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Nasdaq grants raise questions of conflict
Tribune Staff WriterThe Nasdaq stock market's foundation made more than $250,000 in donations last year to non-profit groups affiliated with Nasdaq directors, a practice that has come under increasing scrutiny because of conflict-of-interest concerns. In September,...Tags: Stock Broking, Bankruptcy, Government, Accounting and Auditing, Chicago Tribune
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Jobless recovery is good for many firms
Times Staff WriterThe economy roared last quarter, and so did Falcon Plastics Inc. A family owned firm in the eastern South Dakota city of Brookings, Falcon posted record sales in September. Yet there's no impulse to celebrate, no rush to hire. The bad times are still too...Tags: South Dakota, Intel Corp., Weather, Unemployment Benefits, Career and Workplace
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