'Great Party' for Great Cause Will Feature Trisha Yearwood
                   
redorbit.com     Jul 20, 2008          

Posted on: Sunday, 20 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Ann Spivak, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jul. 20--T wo powerful men in Kansas City who lost their fathers to cancer are joining forces to make September's seventh annual Treads & Threads fundraiser the most profitable one to date. Clark Hunt, chairman of the board of the Kansas City Chiefs, and his wife, Tavia, will serve as honorary chairpersons of the benefit for the cancer program at the University of Kansas Hospital. Greg Graves, CEO of Burns & McDonnell -- one of the nation's leading engineering firms -- along with his wife, Deanna, will chair the Sept. 5 benefit on the infield of the Kansas Speedway. Both Hunt and Graves lost their fathers, Lamar Hunt and Joe Graves, to cancer in recent years. "Clark lost his dad in a very public way, and my dad died in a very private way, but... [read full story]                    


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Graham movie catches flak from son

normantranscript.com     17 mins ago          

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Franklin Graham has criticized the new feature film about his famous father, saying "Billy: The Early Years" includes a few scenes that never happened in real life and others that are "greatly embellished.                    

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Salesforce.com F2Q09 (Qtr End 7/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript (at Seeking Alpha)

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posted on: August 20, 2008 | about stocks: CRM Executives David Havlek - Investor Relations Marc Benioff - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer Graham V. Smith - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President...                    

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Growers Direct Coffee appoints new president and CEO

drinks-business-review.com     4 hrs ago   1 related          

Growers Direct Coffee, a distributor and marketer of green bean coffees in the US and Europe, has appointed Mick Rynning as the new president and CEO of the company. Earlier, the firm also announced that interim president JD...                    

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Count Basie: Biography of the Day

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Count Basie "Oh my, marvelous town, Kansas City. Clubs, clubs, clubs. I mean that was all Kansas City was made up of. The cats just played. They played all day and tomorrow morning they went home and went to bed. The next day...                    

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