stagnate - August 8, 2008

The surges this year in oil and food prices could not have come at a worse moment for the typical American worker, who has not had a raise to speak of in this decade. Workers’ leverage is gone. Companies are not creating jobs. Unions that negotiated

Newman Regional Health interim CEO Joyce Grove Hein outside the hospital Thursday, July 3. Hein was brought in temporarily on June 30 to replace Terry Lambert, who resigned June 25, effective on that date. “This is not going to be a situation where

NEW YORK - Shares of Monster Worldwide Inc. fell to a new year low Friday after the online career and recruitment service provider reported mixed second-quarter results, but an analyst downgraded the stock, predicting it would stagnate amid weakening

ST. LOUIS - After weeks of public bickering, Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.'s board is likely to accept a sweetened buyout offer from the Belgian-based brewer InBev SA as early as this weekend, published reports say. The New York Times and The Wall Street

For years, real-estate commissions were among the most inscrutable of all the costs of selling a home. As if by magic, sellers across the country routinely paid a 6% fee out of the sales proceeds to their agents. But with the advent of the Internet

Pretoria - South African netball has a wealth of talent, among players as well as coaches, but needs cohesion if it is to succeed internationally. That is the view of Lyn Gunson, a former coach of the all-conquering New Zealand team. Gunson, who is a

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP -- Township officials are investigating the source of a bacteria outbreak that has Belleville Lake closed for swimming -- but hot, dry weather is the likely culprit, township officials said Monday. The Wayne County Department of

UK economic growth will fall to just 1.5 per cent in 2008 and 1.4 per cent in 2009, as the effects of high oil prices and the credit crunch combine. The UK should escape recession, but annual growth up until 2011 will be the lowest since the slump of

Paris- The chairman and CEO of French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent will both resign later this year, the company said Tuesday, as stagnant demand from operators and the weak dollar combined to foil the promises of its merger more than two

Published July 15, 2008 09:30 pm - The presence of West Nile virus has been confirmed in Madison County. For The Herald Bulletin       The presence of West Nile virus has been confirmed in Madison County.