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MINNEAPOLIS – Rose McKinney recalls one job candidate who blogged and tweeted herself directly out of a job interview.
OLYMPIA – Amber Miller has been hired as Capital Medical Center’s new chief quality officer, the west-side hospital announced this week. Miller moved to Olympia from Meridian, Idaho, where she used to work at West Valley Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facility. HCA used to own Capital Medical Center before it was sold to Capella Healthcare.
OLYMPIA – Providence St. Peter Hospital has received a $30,800 grant to purchase monitoring equipment for patients with acute neurological conditions, the hospital announced Thursday. The grant comes courtesy of Boeing’s Employee Community Fund, a fund that has contributed more than $500 million to local communities since 1951, according to a Providence news release. The new equipment will be used to measure blood pressure, oxygen levels and temperature and help to detect infection.
An attorney for General Motors Corp. urged a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve the automaker’s sale plan, saying that the only other alternative would be a liquidation of the company’s assets.
The Boeing Co. delivered 125 commercial jets in the second quarter, one less than the same period in 2008.
Orders to U.S. factories jumped in May by the largest amount in nearly a year, another sign that the nosedive in manufacturing is nearing an end.
DETROIT – The latest numbers on auto sales show that Chrysler needs to quickly figure out how to navigate the car market as deftly as it did bankruptcy court.
Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high. The Dow Jones industrials lost 223.32 to close at 8,280.74, its lowest level in six weeks.
TUMWATER – Albany International Corp. of New York announced Wednesday that it will close its plant on Littlerock Road, laying off 32 employees.