Atlanta law firm King & Spalding LLP has won a $700 million judgment for Chevron Corp. in an arbitration between the energy giant and the government of Ecuador. An international...
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Clayton State Hosts Indian, Hungarian Faculty
Clayton State University is hosting faculty members from Hungary and India as part of faculty exchange programs with universities in those two countries. Zoltan Kovacs, a professor of economics at...
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Study: Atlanta Second Most Affordable City for Business
Trailing only Tampa, Fla., Atlanta was cited as the second most affordable place to do business out of 22 major U.S. cities in a study released Tuesday by accounting firm...
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Coke Launches Program to Help Haitian Mango Farmers
Coca-Cola Co. is launching a program to help 25,000 mango farmers in Haiti. Coke will invest $3.5 million in the Haiti Hope Project, and expects to receive contributions from the...
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UGA Cancels Symposium With Chief Justice of India
The University of Georgia School of Law has canceled an April 2 symposium that was to have featured the chief justice of India's Supreme Court, K.G. Balakrishnan. India's minister for law and...
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Goldman Sachs Exec Named President of Global Payments
Jeffrey Sloan, an executive at Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been named president of Atlanta-based electronic payment processor Global Payments Inc. He will start his new position June 1. At...
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Delta Stops Service to Trinidad, Tobago
Delta Air Lines Inc. is canceling service from Atlanta and New York to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. "Delta will discontinue service to both islands on May 31, a...
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Russian Ambassador: Boosting Trade Vital to ‘Resetting’ Relations
Boosting trade and investment is the best way to build goodwill and drive political cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., told GlobalAtlanta. "Many...
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Georgia Tech Hosts Forum on the Future of Nuclear Weapons
In his opening remarks at the Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum held at the Georgia Institute of Technology March 29, Mr. Nunn cited “hydra-headed threats” posed by nuclear...
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Coke Names Leader of North American Integration With CCE
Brian Kelley will lead the integration of Coca-Cola Co. and Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. in North America. Coca-Cola is acquiring CCE's North American bottling business in a deal that will transfer...