| Glavine says he's got lots to offer Braves
He slipped into his familiar No. 47 Braves jersey and cap and smiled for a slew of cameras Monday, but pitcher Tom Glavine made clear his return to Atlanta was no nostalgia kick designed to top off his bank account and sell a few tickets. "I'm not sitting here telling you I'm going to win 20 games — but I'm not going to sit here and tell you I won't, either," the left-hander said after signing a one-year, $8 million contract to rejoin the Braves following five seasons with the New York Mets. .
Brown urges ban on energy sector investment in Iran
GORDON Brown is to seek a worldwide ban on oil and gas investment in Iran and has promised an approach of "hard-headed intervention" when it comes to failed states. In his first speech to the City of London Lord Mayor's banquet as Prime Minister, he called on the European Union and the United Nations to impose tougher sanctions on energy and financial sector dealings with Iran. .
2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards
Abbott Laboratories www.abbott.com Sales and Financial Data Warehouse Initiative Project Lead: Peggy Mathias, Senior Manager HQ IT Applications, International Division Project Description: Abbott launched an international sales data consolidation effort, developing a flexible information management infrastructure capable of accommodating future organizational changes and rapidly evolving business needs. The project integrated Kalido as a data warehouse, Oracle and PL/SQL for data staging, and Cognos for its reporting front end, providing 250 finance and marketing executives in 65 countries access to consistent, high-quality data. Industry: Pharmaceuticals .
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