New Jersey-based Comverge (nasdaq: COMV - news - people ) and Boston-based EnerNOC (nasdaq: ENOC - news - people )--which find ways to reduce electricity use when energy is in highest demand, also known as "demand response"--further established the industry with their initial public offerings earlier this year.
That bid undercut higher offers by London-based Mittal Steel (nyse: MT - news - people ) and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel (nyse: X - news - people ).
Collectively, movie-based games have not been as popular as Electronic Arts' (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) sports-based titles or role-playing titans like World of Warcraft, made by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Vivendi (other-otc: VIVEF - news - people ).
These fast-growing, adroit and well-managed companies help set the benchmarks for their respective industries. (Full methodology can be found here.) Just five Canadian companies make this elite group of 130: Brookfield Asset Management, Manulife, metals producer Teck Cominco (nyse: TCK - news - people ), Calgary-based TV and internet services provider Shaw Communications (nyse: SJR - news - people ) and Suncor Energy.
Vancouver, Canada-based precious metals mining company Wheaton River Minerals (amex: WHT - news - people ) and San Francisco-based civil engineering and design firm URS (nyse: URS - news - people ) both remained on the top buy list from two weeks ago.
DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) and Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF (nyse: BF - news - people ) have all shirked off their drug divisions, while attempts at combining agriculture and chemicals under one roof by companies like Monsanto and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have failed.
The Food and Drug Administration has given record-fast approvals to Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec and Millennium 's (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) Velcade based on relatively early-stage data in these diseases.
"A large percentage of people have employer-based or categorical insurance, and there are no tangible incentives for them to get healthy, " says Dr. Volpp.
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"People criticise university-based training rather than ward-based training, " she said.
Online WAP games are designed "not only to meet growing demand among young people for WAP-based entertainment and games, but also to encourage more non-WAP customers to join the WAP world, " says Prudence Chan, SmarTone's chief operating officer.
The biggest rollout is Cinergy (nyse: CIN - news - people ), a Cincinnati-based utility that serves 2 million customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
Another top buy was Calumet Specialty Products Partners (nasdaq: CLMT - news - people ), an Indianapolis-based refiner of crude oil into fuels and products for lubrication and paints.
Most will, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), be software-based and have cheap components at their core, but you should expect a couple of amazing hardware innovations too.
For instance, says Harp, the Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary is involved in patent litigation with QLT Incorporated (nyse: QLTI - news - people ), a Vancouver-based firm specializing in light-activated drugs.
From the remaining small list, Gerstein had to make a judgment call and chose Tuesday Morning (nasdaq: TUES - news - people ), a Dallas-based chain of 594 off-price specialty stores in 42 states.
Really a computer program installed on a Compaq (nyse: CPQ - news - people) Alphaserver platform, the KnowledgeBox is being sold through Avnet (nyse: AVT - news - people), the Phoenix-based electronics distribution giant, as a search service.
Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) decision is based on new three-year data from a clinical trial designed to test the effect of Vioxx on preventing colorectal polyps.
Atlanta-based EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ), the No. 3 Internet service provider in the U.S., is now offering wireless Internet service to not just Blackberry and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) pagers, but also to devices based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) PocketPC platform.
But although the new boron-based glaze now costs only a third as much as the traditional lead-based mix, getting people to change a centuries-old tradition is not easy, says Eduardo Berrocal of Fonart.
Peltz's Triarc Cos. (nyse: TRY - news - people ) said Thursday it will acquire the Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy's (nyse: WEN - news - people ).
Originally, Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people) and Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis expected to introduce Xolair this year.
According to published reports, People magazine, which is owned by Time-Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ), along with London-based Hello!
The lawsuit claims that Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) specifically asked server supplier NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ) to design an Opteron-based model, but that NEC inexplicably shelved the product, never marketing it to any other customers.
Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ), the San Francisco-based financial services giant, which has purchased 550 million kilowatt-hours of green power (equal to 42% of its annual electricity use), comes in second on the EPA's list and gets approval from the strategies I base on the writings of Peter Lynch and James O'Shaughnessy.
For example, the research and development headquarters of Switzerland-based Novartis AG (nyse: NVS - news - people ) is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.
At the Hellesdon club, there are people from a Norfolk-based charity Momentum offering advice to Ellie and the other helpers.
The report projected that the number of people covered by employer-based health care plans would fall by about 15 million by 2017.
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That might surprise people who associate cellphone-based donations with recent disasters.
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The AirDefense system is generally run off of an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) based server installed inside a corporate network.
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