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As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is spreading, allegations are coming to light that this might be the Halliburton oil spill. BP has claimed responsibility for paying for the oil spill cleanup, and Transocean was operating the oil drilling
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...fossil fuels like coal, has been a bright spot in the energy industry as Congress looks for ways to fight climate change. Halliburton CEO Dave Lesar said the oil services firm has been able to raise its prices as shale drilling expands. But Lesar warned investors...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
http://www.ajc.com/business/halliburton-grows-at-home-473463.html
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...in other countries, the pressure is on to better accommodate different cultures, he said. That fact that 60 percent of Halliburton's business last year — $15 billion in total revenue — was derived from the Eastern Hemisphere may be proof. "The market is going...
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Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20100415_49_E1_Hliutn50059&rss_lnk=5
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Abuja-A FORMER minister of state for defence, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, has been quizzed by the Federal Government's investigation panel probing the $190 million Halliburton scam following an allegation by a suspect that the ex-minister collected $6
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200912280989.html
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When commodity prices began their five-year ascension to record highs back in 2003, integrated oilfield product and service suppliers were dealt one of the more fortuitous hands ever in the industry. Yet Halliburton (HAL), one of the largest players in
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When commodity prices began their five-year ascension to record highs back in 2003, integrated oilfield product and service suppliers were dealt one of the more fortuitous hands ever in the industry. Yet Halliburton (HAL), one of the largest players in
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CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34280153?__source=RSS*blog*&par=RSS
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Halliburton said late Tuesday its fourth-quarter net income will take a hit of 2 cents a share as Petroleos Mexicanos pares back spending on its fossil fuel fields in
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MarketWatch
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Analysts at Tudor Pickering Holt on Wednesday kept their profit targets unchanged for Halliburton
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30.46,
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despite the oil serivce giant's announcement that its
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MarketWatch
http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~r/marketwatch/marketpulse/~3/nFGQm_spqNY/story.aspx
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A Houston judge ruled today that Halliburton must remain as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging it and its former subsidiary KBR knowingly sent civilian truck convoys into dangerous conditions the day six drivers were killed in 2004 in Iraq.
U.S.
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/business/~3/P7Tso-7_IX8/6737858.html
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Halliburton Co., which provides services for the energy industry, said Tuesday that reduced activity by major Mexican customer Petroleos Mexicanos — Pemex — will drag down fourth-quarter profit by 2 cents per share. Customers like
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ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9169426
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Halliburton Co., the world's second- largest oilfield-services provider, said a reduction in business from Petroleos Mexicanos will cut earnings by about 2 cents per share in the fourth quarter.
Halliburton's work in the Burgos, Veracruz, and southern
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/business/~3/nJ5yxkdKOwU/6737715.html
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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Halliburton Company's (Halliburton; NYSE:
HAL) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'A-' despite continued weak market
conditions.
Fitch has affirmed the following ratings for Halliburton:
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2009-11-24 22:34:05 -
expected to be approximately $0.02 in earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 2009.
Halliburton has operated in Mexico for more than 60 years.
Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/halliburton-provides-update-on-mexico-operations-r1600730.htm
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Officials
handling the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant American
International Group Inc. mismanaged an initial rescue attempt and may
have overpaid other banks to wind down AIG's business relationships, a
government watchdog says. Image
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Town Hall
http://carters2ndterm.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/18/paint_the_obama_administration_with_halliburton_brush_coated_with_aig.thtml
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Two Kentuckians have followed dozens of other plaintiffs in suing Halliburton and other military contractors, alleging they were exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan in which the companies disposed of everything from human
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Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091110/NEWS01/911100357/-1/rss
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Emirates Business 24-7, 08 November 2009
Halliburton has been awarded the integrated turnkey drilling contract in South Ghawar.
Located 200km from the city of Dhahran, the Ghawar field is the world's largest oil field and the contract would
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Zawya.com
http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091108051640
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David Gardner called it. He’s up 1,334%! See what David’s recommending that you buy NEXT.
In our Motley Fool CAPS community, nearly 95% of the 2,871 investors rating the company are bullish, so there's no shortage of reasons why Halliburton will
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Motley Fool
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HOUSTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Oil field services company Halliburton announced it was awarded a drilling contract by Saudi Aramco for the Ghawar field, the largest oil field in the world.
Halliburton said the contract includes an integrated turnkey drilling
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/11/06/Halliburton-lands-Ghawar-field-contract/UPI-31401257528789/
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HOUSTON
- Halliburton Co. said Friday it received a contract to drill and complete oil wells in Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field.
Halliburton said the Ghawar field is the worlds largest oil field. It is located about 124 miles from the city of
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/business/69371977.html
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Among the many dubious provisions in the 2005 energy bill was one dubbed the Halliburton loophole, which was inserted at the behest of you guessed it then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of Halliburton.
It stripped the
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International Herald Tribune
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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David Gardner called it. He’s up 1,334%! See what David’s recommending that you buy NEXT.
At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." So you
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Motley Fool
http://feeds.fool.com/~r/usmf/foolwatch/~3/PVRkzL2QeZY/this-just-in-upgrades-and-downgrades.aspx
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Dubai // A former Halliburton employee accused of trying to extort Dh11,000 (US$3,000) from a contractor was acquitted yesterday in the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance.
The contractor, an environmental technology company, claimed the man
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The National Newspaper
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091030/NATIONAL/710299840/1010/rss
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Wells Fargo initiates coverage on Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) with an Outperform. Valuation range of $35-41.
Wells analyst says, "We think HAL offers the most attractive risk-reward of the Big 4, as its consensus 2010-11 EPS growth expectations are second
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/New+Coverage/Wells+Fargo+Initiates+Coverage+on+Halliburton+%28HAL%29+with+an+Outperform%3B+Most+Attractive+Risk-Reward+of+its+Peers/5053858.html
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HOUSTON --
The multinational oilfield services giant Halliburton has the blessing of slightly better earnings than Wall Street expected in the third quarter, rosy oil prices and a stock trading near its 52-week peak.
Still, the $27 billion
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/27/halliburton-oilfield-services-business-energy-gas.html?feed=rss_business_energy
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) announced today that it has acquired Geo-Logic Systems, LLC. Founded in 1983, Geo-Logic Systems is the leading provider of advanced structural interpretation, analysis and restoration software for complex geologic
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Mergers+and+Acquisitions/Halliburton+%28HAL%29+Acquires+Geo-Logic+Systems+for+Undisclosed+Amount/5049818.html
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2009-10-26 22:17:02 -
game-like experience when developing geologic interpretations.
GeoGraphix Discovery 3D software is one of the first oil and gas solutions leveraging the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system as well as the latest DirectX®
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/halliburton-releases-innovative-3d-r1547246.htm
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As Rachel reports, it looks like the vote taken by 30 Republicans to protect contractors rather than rape victims is not playing very well for them in their local papers.
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Crooks and Liars
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IN PICTURES: Eight Ways To Survive A Market Downturn
The previous bull market in crude may have alerted more than a handful investors as to what the best equity plays on rising crude prices are. And let's be honest: the best equity plays on rising oil
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Investopedia
http://feeds.investopedia.com/~r/StockAdvice/~3/yGvo2_lZ96o/Oil-Services-Still-The-Best-Way-To-Play-Crude-HAL-NOV-WFT-OIH-XOM-CVX-BP1022.aspx
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An entrepreneur who rejected a £200,000 Dragon’s Den offer for a stake in his company has sold more than five million luminous balloons in less than a year.
James Halliburton, 29, had dragons Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis and James Caan battling to
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222155/Dragons-Den-inventor-shunned-panels-cash-sells-FIVE-MILLION-gadgets.html?ITO=1490
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Purdue's 2009 football season was starting to move at a rapid rate in the mind of fifth-year senior Frank Halliburton.
The Indianapolis native sustained a high ankle sprain late in training camp and was having a difficult time recovering. A sense of
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The Courier-Journal
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She just wanted her day in court.
Instead, Jamie Leigh Jones Daigle has been faced with the drawn out frustration of delayed and denied justice in her rape lawsuit against KBR/Halliburton, her employer at the time she was working in Iraq.
Jamie Leigh
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Injury Board
http://feeds.injuryboard.com/~r/IBnationalnews/~3/zCevBP_73eQ/franken-amendment-prohibits-mandatory-arbitration-by-defense-contractors.aspx
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Disney buys Marvel. David Gardner’s top stock jumps 1,334%! See what David recommends that you buy NEXT.
When Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) oilfield service company reported its third-quarter earnings, the company didn't exactly shoot the lights out, but
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Motley Fool
http://feeds.fool.com/~r/usmf/foolwatch/~3/COtc2EhwRQ4/halliburton-leads-off-and-smacks-a-single.aspx
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Susquehanna reiterates a 'Positive' rating on Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), raises price target from $32 to $35.
Susquehanna analyst says, "We are raising our price target on HAL to $35 $32 following the company's 3Q09 earnings results. We see evidence
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Susquehanna+Reiterates+a+%27Positive%27+on+Halliburton+%28HAL%29%3B+Well-Positioned+for+Key+Secular+Trends+/5025995.html
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Lakewood resident Linwood Richard Halliburton, 45, was convicted this week of the sexual assault of a 53-year-old church choir director.
Over the course of two nights in February 2008, Halliburton broke into two Lakewood churches. He is also guilty of
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_13578727?source=rss
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NEW YORK - Halliburton's third-quarter results Friday gave the first concrete evidence that the oil industry may have bottomed out as profits plunged but drilling activity in the critical region of North America grew.
"This is not going to be as hard a
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MSNBC
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For Dvorchak's preview heading into the Halliburton conference call, please click here.
Halliburton (HAL - commentary - Trade Now) stock is up strongly in a down market, indicating that investors are very receptive to a reasonably
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The Street
http://www.thestreet.com/p/_rmrss/rmoney/oil/10612686.html
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2009-10-16 16:50:05 -
Halliburton Web site at www.halliburton.com : .
Please visit the Web site to listen to the call live via webcast. In addition, you may participate in the call by telephone at (703) 639-1306. A passcode is not required.
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/halliburton-2009-fourth-quarter-conference-r1532669.htm
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Today's column includes third-quarter earnings from Bank of America Corporation (BAC), a mixed brokerage review for Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM), a positive profit surprise for Halliburton Company (HAL), and an optimistic analyst note for Plains
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SchaeffersResearch.com
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Analysts at Pritchard Capital on Friday said Halliburton
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(HAL
31.01,
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beat its earnings targets on strength in its overseas business. "We believe though the North
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MarketWatch
http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~r/marketwatch/marketpulse/~3/pyb51ebXVDc/story.aspx
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October 16, 2009 7:05 AM EDT
-- Halliburton has been awarded a $190 million contract by Petrobras to
provide drilling fluid, completion fluid and drilling waste management
services in the offshore markets of Brazil.
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US defence companies are to be barred from lucrative government contracts if they refuse to allow employees access to the courts, after a woman working for Halliburton in Iraq was prevented from taking legal action over an alleged gang rape by fellow
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/15/defence-contractors-rape-claim-block
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), through its product service line Baroid, has been awarded a two-year contract, with multiple extension options, to provide drilling fluids and associated services to Talisman Energy Norge AS. The $229 million contract,
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Halliburton+%28HAL%29+Wins+2-Yr+Talisman+Contract+Valued+at+%24229M/5012808.html
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(Maddening. - promoted by Dean Barker)
Jamie Leigh Jones went to Iraq in 2005, to work for Halliburton's then subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown, and Root. When she signed the contract, she was shown pictures of a small trailer where she would live with
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Blue Hampshire
http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/8444/judd-greggs-family-values-an-editorial
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All Dem Senators do not suck corporate teat.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) spoke against the amendment, calling it “a political attack directed at Halliburton.”
So Sessions not only acknowledges that Halliburton has a problem with covering up the rape of
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Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sen-al-franken-stands-support-kbr-rap
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Not even close. Don't confuse waste with fraud. The defense contractors already have government oversite. I worked for a military contractor many years ago. We had government auditors onsite, full time, going over the books and expenditures. Was there
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The Nation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNationEdPicks/~3/dgs9F8QG0iw/bernie_sanders_applies_acorn_standard_to_defense_contractors
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Halliburton Foundation announced today that it has endowed an
engineering faculty chair at Texas A&M University for a total of $1
million. Texas A&M University former students and friends of the
university working at
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The right wing is launching an attack on ACORN. Not because ACORN is a corrupt or a negative organization, but because ACORN stands for things that they oppose. ACORN involves itself in issues such as making housing affordable for working class people,
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/casey-ganemccalla/stand-up-for-acorn-cut-bl_b_296741.html
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Number of times
Beck's and Hannity's
programs, combined, referenced ACORN, Abramoff, Blackwater, and Halliburton/KBR
from May 8, 2006, to
September 18, 2009 (NOTE: For the purposes of this
study, a "reference" is defined as the specified topic
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Media Matters for America
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/82OC-pRwKl8/200909230032
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Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) will be presenting their third quarter 2009 financial results on October 16, 2009. The call is set to begin at 8:00 a.m. (CT). An earnings press release will be issued before the start of the call. The results will be made
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TransWorldNews
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=123989
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