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Construction industry at worst since Great Depression (Chicago Sun-Times) - For Oak Lawn construction worker Christopher Allaway, installing metal roofs while teetering on 4-inch-wide steel beams is an adrenaline rush."That's when I know I'm alive," says Allaway, a 20-year industry veteran who often worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks before he was laid off in July.Despite enduring the longest hiatus of his life, he has no plans to switch careers. "I'm just riding ...

INDUSTRY URGED TO PROVIDE INTERNSHIP (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) - JOHOR BAHARU, March 6 (Bernama) -- Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khalid Nordin has urged the industry to provide internship to graduands to ensure they have the necessary skills upon graduation.

Industry Urged To Provide Internship (Bernama) - JOHOR BAHARU, March 6 (Bernama) -- Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin has urged the industry to provide internship to graduands to ensure they have the necessary skills upon graduation.

FM assures to look into film industry tax probs (Press Trust of India) - Mumbai, Mar 6 (PTI) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he would hold detailed consultations with the film industry's representatives to address their concerns regarding taxation after the current Parliament session ends.

Bills are aimed at helping horse industry (WHAS TV11 Louisville) - FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Republican senator says he'll mount a home-stretch push to win support for legislation aimed at reinvigorating Kentucky's horse racing industry. So far, it's not been a gallop, but more like a series of starts and stops for advocates of the racing industry. But Sen. Damon Thayer of Georgetown said Friday he hopes industry supporters can start gaining ground. Thayer said ...

Harness industry rocked by race-fixing probe (Detroit Free Press) - News of an investigation into harness racing sent shivers through the state's horse-racing industry, which provides about 12,000 jobs and has struggled in recent years, said Dan Rakieten, executive director of the Michigan Harness Horsemen's Association.

Kentucky bills aim to boost horse racing industry (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - A Republican state senator said Friday that he'll mount a home-stretch push for legislation aimed at reinvigorating Kentucky's horse racing industry.

Law would probe pricing abuses in gasoline industry (Stamford Advocate) - A new bill in the state Legislature would expand oversight of market share within the gasoline industry, allowing the state attorney general to probe alleged price manipulation or other tactics meant to stifle competition.

AHF takes aim at porn industry health clinic: Use condoms in porn films to reduce spread of STDs (News-Medical-Net) - “It is simply a ploy to deflect public scrutiny and government regulation – a ploy that is perpetrated at the expense of the actors’ privacy rights, which would not be violated if the industry simply required actors to use condoms.”

Threat of food supply contamination: National sanitary standards on pallet industry needed (News-Medical-Net) - The need to set national sanitary standards on the pallet industry to curb the threat of contamination to the U.S. food supply was drawn into sharp relief by a just-issued report by the Produce Safety Project showing acute foodborne illness costs the nation $152 billion annually in healthcare, workplace and other economic losses.