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July/August 2003

Vol. 81, No. 6

COVER STORY

Improving transportation: Will Connecticut make headway?

Moving ahead on transportation improvements is critical to Connecticut’s economic vitality and state residents’ quality of life.

• Bradley Airport: New terminal, new image -- and new marketing strategy
• New ConnDOT chief will draw on experience as agency makes transition
• Northeast states worrying about their share of federal funding

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FROM THE PRESIDENT

• State should set transportation priorities, do what’s feasible as money allows

GENERAL ARTICLES

• Purchasing managers now see upturn in Connecticut economic conditions
• Nanotechnology group hopes to make Connecticut an industry hot spot (Members only)
• Business investment down 4% in 2001 (Members only)
• E-commerce outdid total economic activity, says Census Bureau (Members only)

SUCCESS STORY

• U.S. Nanocorp Inc. and Inframat Corp.: Companies see great gain in tiny technology (Members only)

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

• Innovative program aims to shorten learning curve for new IT workers (Members only)

SMALL BUSINESS

• Businesses with 5 or more workers must be smoke free by Oct. 1 (Members only)
• Foreign patents: Protect your inventions while keeping costs down
• Banking trends may free up funds for small-business growth (Members only)
• Conventional wisdom not so wise: Small-business lending profitable for banks, study shows (Members only)

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Employees lose bid to circumvent workers’ comp and to sue employer for ‘intentional injury’ (Members only)
• Bush signs unemployment comp extension (Members only)
• Fact sheets explain EEO responsibilities of multinational firms (Members only)
• New EEOC Web page offers invstigations aid (Members only)
• CBIA, OSHA and CONN-OSHA form alliance to promote workplace safety
• OSHA sets new goals for reducing on-the-job fatalities, injuries, illnesses (Members only)
• Wages stagnate as economy struggles (Members only)

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED (Members only)

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