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A tentative labor agreement between Boeing Co. and striking union workers isn't going to help the Vought Aircraft Industries plant in North Charleston return to a normal production schedule anytime soon. | |||
Utility to upgrade power station South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. plans to eliminate four nearly 50-year-old gas-fired generators at two back-up power plants in North Charleston and Beaufort County and consolidate operations at its Hagood Generating Station in the Charleston Neck area at a cost of roughly $30 million. How survey measures consumer confidenceThere's no truly comprehensive way to accurately gauge consumers' collective whims in a nation of more than 300 million people, so the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Survey might be the best tool we've got. Grocery stores shrinkingPORTLAND, Ore. â" Grocery stores, like food budgets, are shrinking. This month Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened four pilot Marketplace stores in Arizona that are half the size of a traditional supermarket. Business Briefs
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