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Extracting Value

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Published: Sunday, 01 February 2009 07:00
Surging commodity demand, soaring prices, increased consolidation, workforce shortages and increased safety and health reporting requirements---these

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Builder Confidence Declines In January

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Published: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 09:38
Concerns about the faltering economy and reluctant home buyers pushed builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes down further in January, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. The HMI edged down a single point to a new record low of 8 in January.

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Msha: Fatalities At All-Time Low In 2008

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Published: Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:13
Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released today show that mine fatalities in 2008 fell to an all-time low recording a 31 percent drop from 2007. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in that sector of mining since statistics were first recorded in 1910, and the fatality level in coal mines was the lowest recorded number since 2005.

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Trip Releases Biggest Traffic Headaches And Remedies

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Published: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 08:13
A new report released jointly today by AASHTO and TRIP entitled “America’s Top Five Transportation Headaches – and Their Remedies,” identifies crumbling roads and bridges, growing traffic jams, crowded transit systems and rail cars, an unacceptably high rate of traffic crashes and fatalities, and insufficient funding as the top five transportation headaches ailing the nation.

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