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Millionaire Sitt Invests $1 Million To Improve NYC Airport Infrastructure; Launches Global Gateway Alliance

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Sitt, CEO of Thor Equities is taking it upon himself to improve the infrastructure of New York City’s airports. In fact, it’s predicted that the New York metropolitan region could well face $79 billion in economic losses by 2025 if we don’t do something about the declining state of our airport infrastructure.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY HAVE TOP STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS. Austin, TX, Denver, CO and New York City topped our metro leaderboard for Startup Ecosystems. With two locations in Denver (Union Station and in the Lower Highlands), WeWork has the capacity for up to 2,000 workers.

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Indemnification Clause in Construction Contract was Expensive for Contractor

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In a recent New York case, Koerner v. 281 Broadway Holdings, LLC , a subcontractor was forced to pay for the costs of defense of the owner and general contractor, even though the court found that the contractor was not at fault. The plaintiff was a union ironworker employed by Genetech, the window wall subcontractor.

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Gearing Up for the New Year!

Construction Dive

Rick Snyder (R) for signing into law legislation (Public Acts 348 and 349) that will allow workers in the state to decide whether or not to join a union. ” The new laws could encounter legal challenges, and eventually there may be a ballot proposal to repeal the laws.

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Fukushima: Year Three

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” Local fisheries unions made what they called a “painful decision” to drop their two-year opposition to the wastewater release in the hope that it might speed the day when fishing will again be permitted in the area. The world would be a safer place if these guys were locked inside the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane….

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More than half of Russia’s foreign trade traditionally has been with the 17 countries that make up the European Union; less than a quarter of Russia’s trade has come from APEC’s 21 members, including China, Japan and the U.S. “We -style university campus also has risen on nearby Russky Island.

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COVER STORY: Advanced Manufacturing — Creating Jobs In 3Dimensions

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President Obama also mentioned NAMII in his recent State of the Union address: “There are things we can do, right now, to accelerate this trend. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. “And