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  In California, the cost of doing business is a trade-off. Up-to-the-minute reporting on energy deals and insights from California state leaders and analysts pepper the prose in "The Price of Success."
  
  

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  Corporate readers: Looking at tax benefits and liabilities associated with government grants? Then you'd better read the incisive comments of a leading corporate tax expert in "The Letter and the Law."
  
  

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  North Carolina hopes to pick off more Apples. Read all about the state's latest data center project, and hear from the other Gov. Perdue (Beverly), in "Tar Heel Transition."
  
  

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  From the archives: For our friends at the IOC and for others already making plans for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, you might want to check out "The Noise From Brazil," from our September 2008 issue, for a glimpse of the infrastructure challenges and opportunities awaiting you.

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• There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  
  • "Elbit Systems Launches in Azerbaijan"
    
    
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  • "AIM Launches Office in Luxembourg"

Read about and link to these conferences and many more listed in the events calendar at SiteNet.com.


• October 12 - 14, 2009 WAIPA World Investment Conference
• October 16 - 17, 2009 CCIM & IREM Success Series 2009: Real Estate Professionals
• October 20 - 22, 2009 Planning Down: Economic Life Within Ecological Limits
• October 21 - 23, 2009 AURP 2009 Annual Conference
• October 21 - 24, 2009 National Maquiladora and Manufacturing Industry Convention
• November 2 - 5, 2009 Procurecon 2009
• November 11 - 13, 2009 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo
• December 9 - 10, 2009 World Free Zone Convention

IAMC Future Sites Watch

• April 24-28 Spring 2010 Forum, The Broadmoor - Colorado Springs, CO
• October 2-6 Fall 2010 Forum, The Homestead - Hot Springs, VA
• April 30 - May 4 Spring 2011 Forum, Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Albuquerque, NM
• September 10-14 Fall 2011 Forum, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA
• April 21-25 Spring 2012 Forum, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines - Austin, TX

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