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Articles in May 18, 2009 issue of Arkansas Business

• Mortgage lending rebounds: new home purchases join strong refinancing demand
  by George Waldon
• Second mortgage
• Health care
• More on health care
  by Joe Carter
• [Cartoon]
  by P. Kirkpatrick
• The 152,000-SF Hewlett-Packard customer service and technical support center in Conway is moving toward completion in December
  by George Waldon
• Printing purchase
  by George Waldon
• Germay manor
  by George Waldon
• Rep financing
  by George Waldon
• Landmark refinance
  by George Waldon
• Windstream to purchase D&E in $330m deal
  by Jamie Walden
• Nanomanufacturing plant set to open at Springdale
  by Mark Carter
• Innovate Arkansas offers startups incubator space
  by Mark Carter
• Crain plans to block Chrysler over closure
  by Jamie Walden
• Wal-Mart's 1Q earnings flat, but meet analysts' forecasts
• Acxiom Corp. turns profit for 4th quarter, fiscal '08
• AERT's first-quarter loss bigger than last year's
• Tyson Foods Inc
• National Bank of Arkansas enters improvement pact
  by Gwen Moritz
• Stephens hires Texas energy investment team
  by Lance Turner
• Washburn pleads guilty to defrauding bank
  by Gwen Moritz
• Business brokers see opportunity in layoffs
  by Worth Sparkman
• Lazenby gets S2.11 million for 3 liquor stores, parcels
  by Susannah Patton
• National Home Centers sues bankrupt builder
• The Verizon Foundation has given grants totaling $635,000 to four Arkansas nonprofits supporting efforts to improve education and aid teacher training and work force development
• Three men from Indiana, contract workers for C&C Welding of Elizabethtown, Ky., were killed May 12 when an empty gasoline storage tank exploded at a Teppco Partners LP facility near Searcy
• CFH Financial Services Inc. of Memphis, a financial planning firm, has opened a second office at Cabot
• AT&T said it would buy wireless assets from Verizon Wireless for $2.35 billion in cash
• APAC-Arkansas Inc.'s McClinton-Anchor Division, based at Fayetteville, won two awards recently from the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department and the Arkansas Asphalt Pavement Association
• Little Rock Wastewater recently received the George W. Burke Jr. Facility Safety Award from the Water Environment Federation
• Verizon Communications Inc. will sell rural wireline operations in 14 states to Frontier Communications of Stamford, Conn., in a deal worth about $8.6 billion
• GIFT College Investing Plan
• Arkansas Chapter No. 64 of the Institute of Real Estate Management is offering an updated comprehensive week-long program on residential site management June 15-17 and June 22-24 at Trane Arkansas in Little Rock
• Tyson Foods Inc. said its "back to basics" approach had helped its chicken segment return to profitability, Leland Tollett, interim president and CEO, told investors and analysts at the BMO Capital Markets 2009 Agriculture, Protein & Fertili
• Federal Communications Commission
• Dear fellow Arkansans
  by Mike Beebe
• Work-life: a bottom-line boon? Employee flexibility programs can prop up profits, CFOs tell BDO Seidman—including some whose companies don't offer them. A tip: don't let HR run the show solo
  by David McCann
• Striking the best balance: companies receive top award for implementing popular work-life practices
  by Holly Sheppard
• Ambassadors: leading the way in Arkansas
• A quick look at the winners
• Through the years: mature workers boost the bottom line
  by Kimberly Friedman; Mark Taylor
• Spotlight awards: recognizing outstanding policies that address the needs of employees and their families
• Mortgage lenders see help from tax credit
  by John Henry
• Tax credit at a glance
  by John Henry
• The news gets better
• Decline of jumbo loans hurting mortgage lenders
  by Jamie Walden
• Guillermo's Coffee House
  by Luke Jones
• Richard Harp, owner of Richard Harp Homes in Little Rock, has received his certified graduate builder designation from the National Association of Home Builders of Washington, D.C
• Kameri Christy-McMullin, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's School of Social Work, has been awarded a 2009 Faculty Gold Medal
• National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission
• Viridian
• Mortgage Bankers Association of Arkansas
• Arvest Bank
• Arkansas Bankers Association
• Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs of Hot Springs will receive the Legends of Osteoporosis Award from the National Osteoporosis Foundation of Washington, D.C
• Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association
• Stuart S. Mackey of Coldwell Banker Commercial Hathaway Group in Little Rock has achieved the SIOR designation awarded by the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors of New York
• Crye-Leike
• Stock summary
• Spatial consideration
• American idolatry
  by Mark Hengel
• Numbers Game
  by Mark Hengel
• Display your wares
  by Mark Hengel
• Allen's prospects after 'Idol'
  by Mark Hengel
• Affiliated Foods' bankruptcy stings members of co-op; but some firms to benefit from demise of company
  by Mark Friedman
• D-Mac is back
• Fog lifts
• Coco mountain
• Lance Turner and Natalie Ghidotti hosted last week the first Little Rock "Tweetup," which pulled together users of the Twitter social media application
  by Jeff Hankins
• Finding lending equilibrium
  by Scott McElmurry
• Land acquisition
  by George Waldon
• Cash for Cauley
• Glasgow reward
• Work-life balance
  by Jeff Hankins
• Courts home
  by George Waldon
• Heights teardown
  by George Waldon
• Thrifty funding
  by George Waldon
• Student housing
  by George Waldon
• Branch construction
  by George Waldon
• MD mortgage
  by George Waldon

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