Ten construction firm managers and a former director of the Polish state road-building agency have been charged with attempting to fix prices.

BBC: Poland hurt by EU aid freeze over suspicious road deal

The ranks of Africa's billionaires are growing, and fortunately many of them are giving back, creating thousands of jobs in export businesses and setting up vocational academies to train future managers of construction sites and factories.

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Nextel phones, which consist mostly of a line of phones produced by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) under the iDen brand, are the phones of choice for messengers in New York City, construction workers, factory managers and others who are in constant communication with a select group of other people equipped with similar phones.

FORBES: The Push-To-Talk Push

In the Philippines, the overseas armies of construction workers, maids and managers whose remittances supply much of the country's foreign exchange are hanging on to their dollars in the hope that they will yield more pesos tomorrow a graphic demonstration of the loss of confidence which afflicts the entire region.

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It has massive debts to meet following the huge transfer deals of recent managers, and the construction work that is transforming St James Park into an football stadium masterpiece.

BBC: Freddy Shepherd

On the still worsening side were the further declines in construction spending, and in the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index.

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Portfolio construction not only consists of finding the right fund managers or securities, but also important topics such as asset location and tax minimization.

FORBES: Investors Need To Make Money, Not Beat Benchmarks

Ritchie's 125 territory managers are information gatherers, too, expected to know every highway construction site, pipeline project and bridge going up in their area.

FORBES: Heavy metal

And managers of other shaky enterprises notaby in the politically important construction industry have been sent a clear message that bankers and officials can no longer squeeze depositors and tax payers to support them.

CNN: Bankrupt Sogo

In September Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, expelled managers of Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering company which he accuses of bribery and shoddy construction of a power plant.

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