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Healthy Eating, Healthy Employees, Better Bottom LineHealthy Eating, Healthy Employees, Better Bottom Line

- We’ve all been there. There’s a crunch at the office and we’re dead tired – so we grab some junk food and soldier on… adding even more pounds to our all-too-often sedentary bods. The FruitGuys have an alternative – a healthy alternative – and they may be heading to your office to share it with you.

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Improving the ‘Tooth-to-Tail’ RatioImproving the ‘Tooth-to-Tail’ Ratio

- Global climate change is a reality that will affect more than the weather and sea levels. It may well cause social disruption in countries that have reduced water and food supplies and growing populations. For that reason, among others, the defense establishment is looking at potential changes in the way it provides for our safety at home and abroad.

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Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For Put Creativity in Valuing EmployeesChicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies To Work For Put Creativity in Valuing Employees

— To have people not only committed to their jobs but thriving in the workplace is an HR dream, and no light feat for businesses anywhere. Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For have found generous and creative ways to show they value their employees.

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Follow That FED Vehicle — It's Using 70% Less FuelFollow That FED Vehicle — It's Using 70% Less Fuel

- When General Motors killed the Hummer brand it did so not only because it was entering its bankruptcy process, but also because the Hummers were gas hogs at a time when gas prices were headed skyward. The U.S. military doesn’t have that option. What it is doing is developing a new breed of workhorse trucks that can get at least 70 percent better gas mileage than the current fleet – and, just slightly further into the future, trucks that will increase that savings.

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Business Leaders: Economy Will Grow Moderately in 2nd HalfBusiness Leaders: Economy Will Grow Moderately in 2nd Half

- How are we really doing economically? Corp! decided to find out in an exclusive survey of business leaders around the Midwest. Overall, the results are more positive than in recent years. When thinking about the business economy as a whole or about their specific organization, our senior-level respondents were more positive than negative and, in some ways, surprised us.

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Eats, Friends and Tweets: Restaurants Keep Social Media Marketing on Simmer — For NowEats, Friends and Tweets: Restaurants Keep Social Media Marketing on Simmer — For Now

- Social media are playing an increasing role in business marketing – in most sectors, but not the food business. No matter what your sector, though, it’s not too late to start – and you don’t have to be a large organization to make them pay off for you. Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites have their plusses and drawbacks and can occasionally exacerbate a generation gap in management ranks. Senior executive: “What if someone posts a photo of a dirty bathroom?” Marketer in response: “Don’t have dirty bathrooms to photograph.”

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The Robot Garage: Building a Business One LEGO Brick at a TimeThe Robot Garage: Building a Business One LEGO Brick at a Time

- Confronted by tables full of LEGO building blocks, even parents find themselves constructing projects alongside their kids at a birthday party at The Robot Garage, a combination party venue-classroom-robotics training ground in a repurposed former warehouse garage.

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High Standards Shine in Atlanta’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For - A First for the 101 Best and Brightest ProgramHigh Standards Shine in Atlanta’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For - A First for the 101 Best and Brightest Program

- Atlanta spoke loud and clear about where they love to work and which companies offer the most innovative workplaces in the area. For the first time, companies in Atlanta that are focused on offering quality human resources initiatives were honored with a 101 Best and Brightest Award.

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Perfect Mix Keeps Sales Hot for Bavarian Inn Matriarch’s Book, ‘Come Cook With Me’Perfect Mix Keeps Sales Hot for Bavarian Inn Matriarch’s Book, ‘Come Cook With Me’

- A multi-generation destination restaurant produces not only memorable food but a personal cookbook as well. Authored by the family matriarch, the cookbook contains many of the recipes that keep thousands of people a week fed – and coming back for more.»Read More

 Is high-speed passenger rail on the right track? Is high-speed passenger rail on the right track?

- Been on a train lately? Did the ride seem longer than you expected? Was there at least less hassle getting to the station and actually on the train? Were you charged for carryon bags? There are a lot of questions being asked about passenger trains and high speed ones in particular. Corp! asks even more.

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