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TREVOSE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2005--GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), joined its parent company today in announcing the expansion of its five-year, $20 million African infrastructure and healthcare initiative. ...

CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--Responding to the hurricane devastation experienced during the last two weeks in the Gulf of Mexico region, Pacer International, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACR), the North America logistics and freight transportation provider, said i...

Los Angeles-Dr. Gary J. Gates, a renowned expert in the demographics of the gay population and Senior Research Fellow at UCLA's The Williams Project will speak at The National GLBT Business Convention in Dallas, TX on November 1, 2005 hosted by Echelo...

Washington, DC - Thanks to a TechnoServe quality-improvement initiative, once-struggling farmers are seeing their coffee featured in the "Tanzania Kilimanjaro" brand being launched today by Peet's Coffee & Tea. This marks a milestone for the hard-working rural gr...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--A high quality, natural process Ethiopia Sidamo coffee is so rare it's practically extinct. Until today. Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) introduces Shirkina Sun-Dried Sidamo coffee, the eighth coffee in its Black Apron Ex...

BADIN, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--School children, scholars and the public will learn more about North Carolina's earliest inhabitants, thanks to two gifts from Alcoa Inc. and the company's nonprofit foundation to the University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill.- Abbott today announced that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), as well as the new DJSI North America and DJSI United States Indices. The addition of Abbott to the DJSI World ranks the company among the top 1...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has announced an $8 million relief package to help K-12 schools damaged or destroyed by recent hurricanes, as well as schools which have enrolled displaced students.

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WHAT: The te@ch emergency response program will provide up to $3
million in Best Buy gift cards to help any K-12 school with
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MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--Answering the request of the Mississippi Department of Health, the American Dental Association (ADA) and Henry Schein Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based prac...