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More than 20 years ago, then-Gov. James R. Thompson took delivery of a shiny red Mitsubishi Eclipse, fresh off the assembly line at the new Diamond-Star Motors factory he helped lure to Illinois.
The vehicle was a gift from the company that decided to build its first and only U.S. production plant in the cornfields west of Bloomington-Normal.
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SEATTLE -- Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state.
The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all of the state's liquor is imported, processed and moved out to the 315 state and contract stores, the only place where Washingtonians can buy hard liquor for home consumption.
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By Sharon LaFraniere
The New York Times
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Richard H. Bowker says he'd like to see a solar-powered charging station for electric vehicles in Shelby Farms Park, possibly near Patriot Lake.
Bowker, who is Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division's point man on electric-vehicle issues, says the decision will be up to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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It will be only a matter of time until Israel strikes Iran's nuclear power program. Most rational international leaders know there are two things you can do separately but never together. You can have a nuclear power program capable of producing weapons, and you can threaten to incinerate the Jewish state, but you can't do both. The Israelis have a 100 percent record in that regard. Some, although not all, of the Iranian leadership elite know that, but they are not calling the shots in Tehran.
There is another truism at work here. When the Israelis go after the Iranians, the United States will get blamed in the Muslim world no matter what we do to dissuade the Israelis. No argument will convince the professional America haters, who set the narrative on the Muslim street, that we didn't ...
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Achieving High Performance
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JIM STINGL
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By Michelle Dynes
mdynes@wyomingnews.com
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Campaign highlights the importance of voting among youth, people helped by food banks and other groups too often left outside the political process
To view the Social Media Release, click here: http:// smr.newswire.ca/en/food-banks-canada/food-banks-canada-boys-and- girls-clubs-of-canada
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BOSTON -- When Massachusetts became the first state to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in 2004, it left one big roadblock in place: Out-of-state couples need not apply.
Now an effort is gaining momentum to repeal a 1913 state law that has prevented out-of-state gay couples from getting married. The law says couples cannot be married in Massachusetts if their unions would be illegal in their home states.