- EU Rail Networks Pick Up The Pace On Corp. Deals
"This is the age of the train," was the slogan used by British Rail in an advertising campaign many years ago, when it wasn't. Staff shortages, doddery old equipment and pointed jokes about the price of BR tea going up meant that travelers deserted the creaking rail system in droves ......
- The GFOA annual conference from a Swedish
perspective.
GFOA members attending the 1997 annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, welcomed a delegation of public finance officials from Sweden. There have been groups from Sweden attending every year since 1992. The 25 delegates were representatives of two groups: board members and top management of the company that handles the ......
- 2007 calendar.
JANUARY 7-13: Ice Cream Short Course, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa., contact Dr. Robert Roberts, (814) 863-2959, www.foodscience.psu.edu. 9-10: Milk Pasteurization and Process Control School, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Food Science, contact Dr. Scott Rankin, (608) 263-2008, http://foodsci.wisc.edu. 14-16: Child Nutrition Industry Conference, School Nutrition Association, Tucson, Ariz., ......
- U.S. Seeks to Revoke Citizenship of Former SS
Guard.
By DPA & Racine (Wisc.) Journal Times The U.S. government is seeking to revoke the citizenship of a former SS guard who it said participated in persecutions that included the killings of 7,000 Jewish prisoners in Poland. The Justice Department filed a complaint Tuesday asking a federal court in Wisconsin ......
- GFOA's international relations
program.
Squeezing more service out of fewer tax dollars, decentralizing budgetary authority, and privatizing and contracting out programs are some of the latest local government reforms underway in Sweden. Governments in Israel also are concerned with cutting costs. Sweden and Israel? As the GFOA International Relations Committee is finding, local governments ......
- WORLD BIOENERGY 2006: Conference Demonstrates Sweden's Bioenergy Know-How and Show-How - and the Power of Leadership
"There are many reasons why we should do away with dependence on oil. The most important is the threat of climate change - the threat from burning oil, coal and gas. That cannot be ignored." These words from the opening address by Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson set the tone ......
- Wisconsin cheese industry
conference.
The Wisconsin Cheese Industry Conference returns to the La Crosse Center in La Crosse, Wis., April 20-21, 2005. Here, more than 1,000 cheese industry leaders from around the nation will gather to gain information about the latest in cheese technology, product marketing and dairy issues affecting the industry. The conference, ......