Could Liberty Mutual be bringing 4000 more jobs to Plano?
Legacy West – a 240-acre mixed-use project on the southwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121 – is where Toyota Motor Corp. recently broke ground for its new North American headquarters that will relocate nearly 4,000 jobs from …
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Baseball Careers Start With Winter Grunt Work
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) – Long before any of that major league money starts landing in their bank accounts, most players are in a similar predicament as everyone else in the regular workforce. Between baseball seasons there are no paychecks and bills don …
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Former Dell executive named to lead RadioShack
Making the announcement, Soo Kim, managing partner of Standard General, said the slimmed-down Fort Worth-based consumer electronics retailer is positioned for a bright future after shedding debt in bankruptcy and striking a deal with Sprint to sell …
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Travellers have long history in Tarrant County
Two years later, their culture and lifestyle made national news when Madelyn Gorman Toogood — an Irish Traveller with Fort Worth ties — was caught on video beating her 4-year-old daughter outside an Indiana store. Now, two Irish Travellers — a …
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Temp jobs growing fast: Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 8 for highest share of …
… temporary employment will grow 13 percent, or 354,877 jobs, from 2014 through 2019. Twenty U.S. metropolitan areas have a higher share of temp jobs (to all jobs) than the 2 percent national average. The Dallas-Fort Worth area ranks No. 8 at 3 …
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