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JUNE 25 - 27 • US-Africa Agribusiness Forum 
JUNE 3-5 • The Middle-Market Deal: Going Global in the Private Capital Marketplace, Leeds, England (1st International AM&AA and TBC Conference) 
MAY 22 • “The Argentine Bonds Case: How Can We Get Rid of the ‘Boom and Bust’ Phenomenon of the Global Financial System?” - Lunch & Learn CLE Lecture Series 
MAY 20 • The Economist Intelligence Unit Industry Outlook and Briefing - Economic and Financial Turmoil: What Lies Ahead 
MAY 19 • THE NETHERLANDS BUSINESS FORUM and NETWORKING RECEPTION
"How To Establish Your First European Business Operation"
 
MAY 16 • ITCC IMPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: Canada Customs Procedures and Documentation 
MAY 14-15 • US-Poland Business Forum: Entrepreneurship and Innovation 
MAY 6 • WTCI-WBDC International Trade Workshop 
APRIL 29 • "Five Billion Urban Dwellers: The Creative Opportunity in the Growth of Cities" - Fourth Annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum 
APRIL 23 • ITCC Spring 2008 Lecture and Business Networking 
APRIL 18 • ITCC IMPORT WORKSHOP SERIES: Minimizing Customs Penalties through Prior Disclosures and Steps to Take During Investigations  
APRIL 10 • “Business Intelligence” Workshop (Technology Executives Club)  
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Articles
LR International Establishes Itself as Industry Leader in Central Asia
by Ric Frantz, CEO LR Intl and ITCC vice president 
LR International (www.lrinternational.com), a full service international freight forwarding company, and its partners are helping to build a better rail system in Kazakhstan.

Through its client, G.E. Transportation Systems, LRI has participated in ongoing shipments of locomotive engines, engine parts and signaling devices for the upgrading of this important mode of transportation for the country of Kazakhstan.

G.E.T.S. contracted with LRI over 4 years ago to research and cost the movement ...full article 
 
Defying Gravity
by Ryan McCarthy, Inc Magazine 
Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times.

1873
A stock market crash, the collapse of a major bank, and a credit crisis lead to the Panic of 1873 and a deep six-year recession.

Coors: Seeing that the country desperately needs a drink, a 26-year-old Prussian immigrant named Adolph Coors opens what he calls the Golden Brewery near Denver. The area is growing fast as rail lines open the West, buoying the start-up. And Coors is able to persever...full article 
 
The Spring 2008 State of U.S. Manufacturing
by Fred White, Industrial Market Trends 
Even though the real bears just awoke from hibernation, the United States economy has been what you'd expect of a bear going into hibernation — falling heartbeat rate and metabolism. So too for manufacturers, today's situation seems more like an indefinitely long sleep with no way of knowing when spring will come.

American manufacturers continue to contend with lower demand as well as high costs for health care, raw materials and energy. As if this weren't enough, a crumbling infrastructure a...full article 
 
Polish American Chamber Hosts A Pre-Constitution Day Meeting With Deputy Prime Minister Pawlak
by Polish American Chamber of Commerce 
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