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Why Boyd Gaming Is an Activist Investor Target
2014-10-02 21:07:45| Trucking - Topix.net
In the casino gaming industry, there's a huge divide between domestic-focused companies and those with a broader international scope. Boyd Gaming is a company that put all its chips on the health of the U.S. gaming market, and even as Las Vegas Sands and other better-diversified casino companies have recovered much of the ground they lost during the financial crisis, Boyd shares still languish well below where they traded in the mid-2000s.
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Hundreds pack NE Portland church to show support for labor activist threatened by deportation
2014-10-01 22:20:32| PortlandOnline
Kasia Hall in The Oregonian, September 30, 201
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Climate Activist Bill McKibben Wins Right Livelihood Award
2014-09-24 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Bill McKibben, founder of the international climate action group 350.org, will be one of five recipients of this year`s Right Livelihood Awards, when they are presented at the Swedish Parliament in early December, the Stockholm foundation that created the awards announced today. The 2014 Awards honor courageous and effective work for human rights, freedom of the press, civil liberties and combating climate change, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation said. American surveillance whistleblower...
Activist Wants DuPont Split in Two
2014-09-17 16:54:13| Beverages - Topix.net
Activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management LP, among the biggest shareholders in DuPont , has called on the chemical conglomerate to separate its high-growth businesses from those that generate strong cash flows. Trian Fund, which holds a $1.6 billion stake in DuPont, wants the company to split into two - one holding its fast-growing agriculture, nutrition and health and industrial biosciences divisions.
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Illegal Loggers Suspected In Death Of Peruvian Activist
2014-09-10 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Audie Cornish talks to geographer David Salisbury about his friend Edwin Chota. Chota the Peruvian activist who advocated that land that was being illegally logged should be given to indigenous groups was murdered deep in the Amazon jungle on Sept. 1. The murder was not reported until this week because of the remote location.
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