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HOPKINTON, Mass. (AFX) - Dennis Hoffman has his suit jacket off and a blue marker in hand, ready to sketch his view of the massive transformation at EMC Corp. He begins by writing "CIO." That would be "chief information officer" -- the executive in many companies who determines how technology dollars are spent. But while EMC is well known in tech, it hasn't always had CIOs' ea ...

ERLANGER, Ky. (AFX) - 0827dv--comair--newser--ff The fatal crash of a Comair regional jet Sunday morning dealt an emotional blow to a commuter airline trying to emerge from bankruptcy. "These are tough things and it's very difficult," Comair president Don Bornhorst said at a briefing in a hotel near Comair headquarters in northern Kentucky. Choking up at times, Bornho ...

ERLANGER, Ky. (AFX) - The fatal crash of a Comair regional jet Sunday morning dealt an emotional blow to a commuter airline trying to emerge from bankruptcy. "These are tough things and it's very difficult," Comair president Don Bornhorst said at a briefing in a hotel near Comair headquarters in northern Kentucky. Choking up at times, Bornhorst said he was "emotionally devastated&q ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AFX) - Dirk Milz, a ceramic tile installer who farmed on the side, started out with traditional beef cattle and sheep. The allure of exotic animals soon grabbed him, though, and now Milz and his son raise everything from African porcupines to yaks on their 57-acre hilltop farm by the Delaware River in central New Jersey. The elder Milz, a native of Koblenz, Germany, starte ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AFX) - Dirk Milz, a ceramic tile installer who farmed on the side, started out with traditional beef cattle and sheep. The allure of exotic animals soon grabbed him, though, and now Milz and his son raise everything from African porcupines to yaks on their 57-acre hilltop farm by the Delaware River in central New Jersey. The elder Milz, a native of Koblenz, Germany, started ...

LONDON (AFX) - Integra, one of Russia's fastest-growing oil companies, is planning a float on the London Stocke Exchange, according to The Business. The report said the float would value the company at more than 1.2 bln usd. Integra was launched at the end of 2004 by US investor John Fitzgibbons and his Russian partner Felix Lubashevksy. The Business said Fitzgibbons has hired US investment ban ...

Andrew Leach and Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday27 August 2006 GORDON Brown is in line for a record £1bn-plus tax payout from domestic energy bills this year, as millions of households struggle in fuel poverty. TAX GRAB: The Chancellor will take £1bn in taxes while households struggle to pay their bills WANT TO KNOW MORE? SWITCH: Cut your fuel bills OTHER STORIES BA 'dirty tricks' storm Ratner plots £200m High Street return Market report: Friday clos ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AFX) - 0826dvs--katrina--insurance Who are the moles? The question was like a parlor game for employees of State Farm Insurance Co. after Hurricane Katrina, one they nervously played during coffee breaks or in the parking lot after work. Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, a prominent lawyer of tobacco litigation fame, created a stir by announcing in March that two ...