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<title><![CDATA[Turning Down the Noise: Kernersville company will start marketing a modular sound-absorption product]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[One day in the summer of 2008, Susan Boyd and Daniel C. Smith were watching a brick mason in Raleigh install a sound-barrier one brick at a time. At the time, Boyd had co-founded and Smith was a structural engineer for ProConcepts Inc., a company that made commercial modular buildings. While watching the bricklayers, Smith got the idea that a product they were using on modular buildings would simplify the brick-laying process.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Milestones]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[&#9632;  Samet Corp., based in Greensboro, has made several changes in its executive leadership team. <b>Rick Davenport</b> has been promoted to president of Samet's Construction Division, replacing <b>Ron Rothrock</b>, as part of the company's succession plan. Davenport will be responsible for all facets of Samet's core construction business. He was the vice president of client services.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:50:06 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unemployment in N.C. hit 11 percent in October]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The state's economy continued to spin its wheels in October, with the jobless rate remaining above 10 percent for a ninth consecutive month.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[State agency using grant for green-jobs initiative]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The labor-market information division of the N.C. Employment Security Commission has received grants worth more than $1 million toward a green-jobs initiative.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nanotechnology company gets Green Business grant]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[PureLux, a nanotechnology company based in Piedmont Triad Research Park, said yesterday that it has received a $100,000 grant from the N.C. Green Business Fund.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell takes $59M charge]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Dell Inc. will spend about half the cost of building its $110 million local plant to close it. The company said it took a $59 million noncash charge in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2010, which ended Oct. 30.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Company could get nearly $900,000 in incentives]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[One of the country's largest medical-sample testing companies could get nearly $900,000 in incentives if it consolidates billing operations in North Carolina.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[N.C. to get 23,700 training vouchers from Microsoft]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Gov. Bev Perdue said yesterday that North Carolina will receive 23,700 training vouchers related to Microsoft Corp.'s public-private partnership to provide free technology training.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Philip Morris suing 10 stores in counterfeit cigarette case]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Philip Morris USA is accusing 10 New York and New Jersey retailers of selling counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. The nation's largest tobacco company announced the federal lawsuits against the retailers yesterday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Many more lose homes]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A rising proportion of fixed-rate home loans made to people with good credit are sinking into foreclosure, adding to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell reports drop in profits of 54% for the quarter]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Dell Inc. said yesterday that its latest quarterly profit dropped 54 percent as the company continues to battle a sales slump.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3 companies charged with deceiving buyers]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Two state agencies have accused three companies with ties to the Triad of "an elaborate scheme" to deceive consumers into buying overpriced manufactured homes.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T broadens coverage with 3G site in Kernserville]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[AT&T said yesterday that it has activated a 3G cell site in Kernersville that will enhance coverage for area residents and businesses.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ready To Roll:  J.C. Penney CEO says chain is in right place in tough times]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[This holiday season, J.C. Penney CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department-store chain, and he's ready to battle such key rivals as Macy's.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Phone maker to exit RTP]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Sony Ericsson, which makes cell-phone handsets, will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close six sites worldwide as it retrenches against an expected tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New-home construction fell last month]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The budding economic recovery isn't getting much help from the home-building industry, which normally creates jobs and drives growth when a recession ends.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo to repay $1.4B to settle marketing lawsuit]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Co. said yesterday that it has agreed to repay customers about $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit and regulatory investigations that accused the company of improperly marketing risky investments as safe.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viva Mario!: Familiar figure in video games is stars in new title]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[N.C. employers to cut health-insurance costs]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[North Carolina employers expect to pay a smaller increase in employee health-insurance costs next year, according to a survey released yesterday by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[State plan wants refund from Baptist]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[N.C. Baptist Hospital has received a letter from the N.C. Attorney General's Office requesting that a $638,585 payment be made to the State Health Plan.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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