Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 22, 2016 (II)

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(1) Jeff Green, Detroit's Comeback Has an Arabic Accent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... as-an-arabic-accent

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Refugees from Syria and Iraq find jobs in the auto industry
(b) Read only the first 3 1/2 paragraphs, and that is enough.

(2) Leonid Ragozin, something Rotten in the State of Ukraine.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... he-state-of-ukraine

Note: Read only the first paragraph, and that is enough.

(3) Matthew Philips, China Keeps Lending and Borrowing. (under the heading "Debt")
http://www.pressreader.com/canad ... 1153837310/TextView
(in the left column of this URL, which sometimes appears, and in some other times does not. If you can not see it, the chart is not important)

The text is as follows: "Piling up[:] The biggest increase in debt [in China] has come from China's corporate sector, where many state-owned companies took out loans from state-owned banks.

(4) Ma Jie and Yuki Hagiwara, Will Drone Become the Toast of Napa?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... e-ready-for-takeoff
(instead of workers on foot or tractors, "Japan’s Yamaha Motor thinks it has a better way: drones. After testing its helicopter-like RMax for the past two growing seasons, Yamaha in December became the first company to win federal certification for a drone to be used as an agricultural aircraft in the US. * * * Yamaha’s drones have been dusting crops in Japan for more than two decades and handle more than a third of the nation’s rice paddies. That’s helped farmers cope with an aging population * * *  Yamaha’s drones also operate in South Korea and Australia")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Yamaha is bringing its unmanned crop-dusters to U.S. vineyards
(b) There is no need to read the rest.
(c) toast (n):
"2: [from the use of pieces of spiced toast to flavor drinks]
a (1) : a person whose health is drunk (2) : something in honor of which persons usually drink
b :   one that is highly admired <she's the toast of society>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toast

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(5) Jennifer Oldham, Frackers Go on a PR Offensive in Colorado.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... t-off-drilling-bans
("fracking fluid only makes cracks in the rock the size of a hair that the sand gets into and holds open")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Andarko uses political tactics to convince voters wells are safe
(b) Read only the first three paragraphs, and that is enough.

(6) Peter Robison with Olga Kharif and Wei Lu, The Software Industry's Cabin in the Woods.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... r-to-silicon-valley

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Portland has quietly lured startups and big company satellites
(b) The Cabin in the Woods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabin_in_the_Woods
(a 2012 American film)
(c) Portland, Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
(the most populous city in Oregon; Population 583,776 (city; 2010 census) )
(d) "Thanks in part to its Portlandia caricature as 'the place where young people go to retire,' the Pacific Northwest city is drawing talented Silicon Valley types looking for a less crazed pace. It’s also attracting tech companies seeking alternatives to the Bay Area’s rocketing costs.

Portlandia (TV series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_(TV_series)
(2010- ; The show shares its title with the sculpture of the same name that sits in downtown Portland
(e) Read the first three paragraphs, and that is enough.