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Articles in March 2, 2009 issue of Arkansas Business

• Stock summary
• Layoffs prove hospitals aren't recession-proof
  by Mark Friedman
• Turnover down, applications up
  by Mark Hengel
• Staffing firms say downturn changing nature of employment
  by John Henry
• Stanford regrouping
• No fair
• Jewell, Part 2
• In hot water
• What's on the tube?
• More contractor woes
• K.I.S.S
• Free choice?
  by Lindsay Brown
• [Cartoon]
  by P. Kirkpatrick
• Highest and best use
  by Gwen Moritz
• Think fast, act faster
  by Jerry Jones
• Exxon acquisition
  by George Waldon
• Land purchase
  by George Waldon
• Lucky transaction
  by George Waldon
• Bar buy
  by George Waldon
• Industrial land
  by George Waldon
• Somersett home
  by George Waldon
• Trucking mortgage
  by George Waldon
• Lexington Park loan
  by George Waldon
• SMC financing
  by George Waldon
• Haynie note
  by George Waldon
• Sherwood Land funding
  by George Waldon
• Peck Family Trust files suit over Stanford investments
  by Gwen Moritz
• 2 sweet goods defendants sentenced for ADFA fraud
  by Gwen Moritz
• Wal-Mart to pay $17.5m to settle discrimination suit
  by Lance Turner
• UAMS narrows search for chancellor to four
  by Lance Turner
• Deceuninck closing plant at Little Rock Port by April
  by John Henry
• ThermoEnergy, Babcock form LLC for new process
  by Lance Turner
• Swepco asks to increase base rates in Arkansas
  by John Henry
• P.A.M. transportation reports loss for fourth quarter, year
• Tyson Foods initiates offering of $500m of unsecured notes
• Baldor posts 17-cent dividend, names new EVP of Engineering
• Assets fall $5 million in '07 for Razorback Foundation
  by Andrew Jensen
• Arvest expands loans 12.7% in 2008, reaches $7.7 billion
  by Worth Sparkman
• NanoMech subsidiary, Duralor, gets contract with automaker
  by Andrew Jensen
• Hino Motors Manufacturing has laid off 157 workers at its Marion plant, which produces axles for Toyota Motor Corp
• Fortis Plastics LLC of South Bend, Ind., a custom-molding supplier for the appliance, furniture, building products, industrial, automotive and medical device industries, said it planned to expand production of its manufacturing operations at Fort Smith, w
• Arvest Bank received national recognition for its contributions to the community at the American Bankers Association's National Conference for Community Bankers for its efforts in the Building with Habitat for Humanity category
• Gus Blass III, chairman of the St. Vincent Health System, has been selected as a Modern Healthcare and Witt/Kieffer Trustee of the Year
• Federal Reserve Board
• U.S. employers expect health care cost increases to hold steady at 6 percent this year
• Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index
• The Arkansas Hospitality Association will hold its 2009 Convention & Trade Show on Sept. 23-24 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock
• Hytrol Conveyor Co. of Jonesboro has made another round of layoffs that will leave 58 workers out of a job
• USAble Life of Little Rock, which offers Blue Cross & Blue Shield life, disability, dental and ancillary health products, has selected SunGard's iWorks software
• Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been named one of Fast Company magazine's 50 most innovative companies
• Vice President Joe Biden will appear in Little Rock on March 14 as the special guest of Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., at her 2010 re-election campaign kickoff event at The Peabody Little Rock
• National Association of Realtors
• Diana Wright named Business Exec of the Year
• Jetride debt casts cloud on Pinnacle partners
  by Andrew Jensen
• Health care stays healthy, 2008 hurts other industries
  by Jamie Walden
• Largest Arkansas employers
  by Jamie Walden
• Lynguent provides engineers tools to do their high-tech jobs better
  by Mark Carter
• Jamison Jackson has joined BKD LLC
• Nabholz Construction
• Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
• Central Arkansas Water
• Murphy Oil Corp
• Metropolitan National Bank
• Democratic Party of Arkansas
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• Arkansas Academy of Physician Assistants
• Arkansas Hospice
• Northwest Health System
• Goldline Research
• Brian Clark to Ramey
  by Mark Hengel
• Seat belts, helmets, guns make for interesting week at Capitol
  by Mark Carter
• Innovation events
• American Board of Trial Advocates Foundation
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette cuts 50-60 employees
  by Mark Hengel