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INTERVIEW-Weak sugar price squeezes Brazil's remaining family-run mills
Reuters* Debt loads will overwhelm many mills this year - Gaeta * Consolidation will create five giant milling groups * About 40 well-run family mills will remain of 250 today By Reese Ewing SAO PAULO, May 2 (Reuters) - Brazil could lose another 60 of its...Tags: Ethanol, Companies and Corporations, Private Equity, Renewable Energy, Sports
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SONDEO-Minoristas Brasil intentan proteger ganancias de desaceleración
Reuters* Inflación alimentos mina crecimiento sueldos, confianza consumidor * Mayores cadenas restringen operaciones, dependencia marcas fuertes * Temporada ganancias empieza el lunes con reporte de Pao de Acúcar Por Brad Haynes y Vivian Pereira SAO PAULO, 29...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Sports
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Boston bombing links underscore Sochi Olympic security concerns
After two trips to the 2014 Sochi Olympic bobsled venue over the past two winters, sled pusher Katie Eberling of Palos Hills said she is not worried about returning or having family members travel there because of links between the prime suspects in...
Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, U.S. Department of State, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Wars and Interventions, Auto Racing
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Building A Better Bobsled
The Hartford CourantCHESTER — Twenty-one years ago, Geoff Bodine zigged where he should have zagged, and as a result, the U.S. won its first gold medal in the bobsled in 62 years. On Monday, Bodine flew up from his home in Florida for the unveiling of his Bo-Dyn...Tags: Technology, Science and Technology, Sports, Awards and Prizes, John Morgan
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Chicago bobsledder Evans in silver finish
Aja Evans ended her rookie year as a bobsled pusher with her best World Cup finish. The Chicagoan did it Friday on the 2014 Winter Olympic track in a manner that bodes well for the chances of whichever sled she might push in Sochi, Russia, next winter....
Tags: Sports, Awards and Prizes, Big Ten Conference, Lolo Jones, FIFA World Cup
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On thin ice
Before they began practice one recent morning in Salt Lake City, Olympic bronze medalist Lana Gehring of Glenview and four other elite speedskaters had to assemble protective pads around the walls of a municipal rink. Working in tandem, the skaters...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Justice System, Judges, Short-track Speed Skating, Economy, Business and Finance
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2014 Winter Games
They installed the first outdoor Olympic rings Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, a 60-by-30-foot reminder that Thursday marks a year to go before the opening of the 2014 Winter Games. The temperature was 61. That incongruity brings up the first of a baker's...
Tags: Shani Davis, 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Lindsey Vonn, Evan Lysacek, Ice Hockey
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Jim Shea Sr., 2nd of 3 Generations Of Olympians, Says His Grandsons Have A Shot, Too
The Hartford CourantWhen he was a kid, Jim Shea Sr. couldn't wait to get out of Lake Placid, the then-sleepy little town in upstate New York whose claim to fame was hosting the 1932 Olympics. "I can remember vividly, walking home from school along Main Street, saying, 'I...Tags: Sports, Speed Skating, Olympic Games, Nordic Skiing, Sonja Henie
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Palos Hills bobsledder in world medal contention
Bobsled pusher Katie Eberling of Palos Hills is in position to win a second straight medal at the World Championships. Eberling, a volleyball player at Western Michigan who took up the sport barely two years ago, and driver Elana Meyers stand third...
Tags: Sports, Awards and Prizes
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Chicago's Evans gets first World Cup bobsled medal
Chicagoan Aja Evans, in her rookie season as a bobsled pusher, earned her first World Cup medal Friday in Igls, Austria. With the fastest time of the 20 sleds in the second run, Evans and driver Jazmine Fenlator took third overall , just five-hundredths...
Tags: Track and Field, Sports, Awards and Prizes, Lolo Jones, FIFA World Cup
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BMW's California design studio designs bobsled for U.S. national team
Usually, BMW doesn’t want its vehicles to slide freely on ice. But that’s exactly the goal of its latest project – developing a two-man bobsled for the U.S. men’s bobsled team. The sled raced for the first time at the FIBT...
Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Google+, Sports, Manufacturing and Engineering, Two Man Sled
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Big-screen blind spot: 'Cool Runnings'
Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment. Confession: Until last week, I hadn't...
Tags: Movies, John Candy, Sports, Gladiator (movie), Malik Yoba
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