Article: Speak your way to success.

Article: First Data Developing Network in Turkey.(Technology)(Brief ...
American Banker;  December 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Byline: CardLine Global First Data Corp.is helping a Turkish bank change consumers' payments habits in that country. The Atlanta unit of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is developing a network of 1 ...

Article: Hill Missing Forest for Crisis Trees.(Washington)
American Banker;  December 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... will lose the opportunity to legislate because a year from now or two years from now, there will be less public appetite for change," said Brian Gardner, an analyst at KBW Inc.'s Keefe, Bruyette and Woods Inc. "The other political dynamic is that ...

Article: Sea stories.(Editor's log)
National Fisherman;  January 1, 2010 ;     700+ words ... ... the fog, right on course a half mile or so from the cove. I thought I was in the presence of a mystic. Raymond chuckled and told ... pound, most of which he sold to John Nagle in Boston, who l thought did right by us on price, as well. Joe was as strong as an ...

Article: Shifting gears.(Consequences)(fishing safety)
National Fisherman;  January 1, 2010 ;     700+ words ... ... the equipment was further modified from a hydraulic clam dredge to a single side-tow scallop dredge configuration. This change included the removal of several thousand pounds of clamming gear, which was replaced with lighter scallop gear. The owners ...

Article: North Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management ...
National Fisherman;  January 1, 2010 ;     489 words ...Federal fishery scientists in November were expected to unveil a draft biological opinion on proposed changes to existing rules for Alaska fishing fleets with respect to Steller sea lions. Steller sea lions were listed as a threatened species ...

Article: Research from Z.Z. Hu and co-authors provides new data about ...
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  December 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 1000 hPa form an ellipse with a southeast-northwest orientation of the long axis because the SST anomalies promote coherent changes in SLP in the central North Pacific. In the upper troposphere, a similar teleconnection pattern with the same sign generated ...

Article: New climate research from Macquarie University discussed.(Report)
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  December 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Southern Oscillation (ENSO) changes on interdecadal time scales ... explain small near-zonal changes in equatorial thermocline depth ... magnitude of the resulting change would be. Experiments carried ... variability. It is found that changes in the background state of ...