Applied Industrial 1Q income cut in half

Industrial parts distributor Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. on Tuesday reported a 50 percent drop in fiscal first-quarter profit, but the company said sales improved from the previous quarter, showing that the market may be stabilizing.

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Applied Industrial shares fall on downgrade

Shares of Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. fell Tuesday after an analyst downgraded the industrial parts distributor's investment rating.

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Ritchie Bros. auction in Mead sets sales record

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers says a two-day auction at its site in Mead this week set a sales record for the site.

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OSHA cites Fla. chemical plant in fatal blast

The owners of a chemical plant where a December explosion killed four workers were cited Wednesday, accused of violating federal safety standards.

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Fla. Blast Kills Chemical Plant Co-Owner

The co-owner of a chemical plant was among four people killed when the facility exploded and caught fire, authorities said Thursday.

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Industrial Fire Burns in SoCal

A roaring fire in an industrial yard sent a huge column of toxic black smoke blowing across Southern California's Riverside County on Tuesday.

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The latest economic data from China suggests that industrial production grew year on year at a level faster than expected. Retail sales also rose by more than analysts had predicted, while consumer prices continued to fall.

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Seven swimmers swimming, Sacramento to San Francisco.

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The moth was white with small black speckles but over time it evolved to being almost black in parts of the UK because of heavy industrial pollution. The change made it less obvious to predators against backgrounds of grime and soot.

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America now has a full-blown industrial policy. But it's an odd one -- a combination of lemon socialism and taxpayer-financed regulation.

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The Words of Wind

Blowing in the Wind "How many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see." Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" Can you hear Dylan's voice whispering in the wind? Do you dare to listen? Are you afraid? Of what?

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Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised an ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel... Unexpectedly, the MoD team has given the armour a protective advantage by introducing holes into it. More Articles

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Excerpt: Doctors performed surgery on an employee at Turri's Italian Foods after his arm was trapped up to the shoulder in a machine used to knead dough.

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The Brazilian government has pledged to end net deforestation by 2015. More Articles

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This is a listing of the companies involved in the military industrial complex. You have to see the list to believe it.

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This is part of the actual address by President Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, warning about the then new development of the military industrial complex and the threat of allowing the blending of the military, private corporations and the government into a union which would thre …

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Rick is a midlevel manager in a financial services company in New York City. Each day he commutes from Weehawken, New Jersey, a suburb only a stone's throw from the Big Apple, where he lives with his wife, Donna, and his teenage son, Steven.

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In his famed 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D.

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"I feel that by refusing to un-invite Raytheon, the BC administration is condoning the company's policies, which to me is clearly contradictory to the Jesuit philosophy of this institution," said Tim Dingman, a member of the GJP and A&S '11.

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Police in Skåne in southern Sweden confiscated a field full of cannabis on Tuesday, but have yet to determine whether the plants were actually meant to be dried and smoked.

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Wirelessly enabled parking systems minimize lost revenue from non-payment and broken meters, which can be of significant value in the multi-billion dollar parking industry.

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Strix Systems introduced Strix HSx, a new high-power hot-zone product which is a dual-radio Hot-Spot system supporting 802.11a and 802.11g for hot-spot/hot-zone networks and connects to Strix high-performance Wireless Mesh Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) .

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some...compare the clean energy sector to the dot com bubble of the late 1990s, but Nasdeo is quick to point out the differences.

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Based in the Dubai office, which is the flagship office for the Middle East Region and the first in a series of offices to open around key markets of the Middle East, Wassim Karkabi has invested the last 14 months developing the office's client base focusing to a large majority o …

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The basic defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Hip Hop Activist Accepts VP Bid for McKinney's Green Party Bid by Davey D (www.daveyd.com)

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THE people of the Latrobe Valley are demanding an apology for hundreds of thousands of workers and families exposed to asbestos by the former State Electricity Commission in what has been called Australia's worst industrial disaster.

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Chinese, Russian and Iranian spies have tried to steal industrial secrets from half of all major German firms, a state security official told Financial Times Deutschland on Friday.

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India's industrial output shows major contraction.

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Mordechai Vanunu. Every email Vanunu has ever written, snail mail received, phone call conversation and walk he has ever taken through east Jerusalem, has potentially been monitored 24/7, since his release from an Israeli prison in 2004.

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OSHA has inspected the Finkl forging plant 19 times since 1972 with 12 of those inspections resulting in citations for safety violations. The company has had two fatalities during that time.

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