Archive for October 2003

West Bancorporation Inc., the parent company of West Des Moines State Bank, said its third-quarter net income rose 9.4 percent as recent acquisitions, including Hawkeye State Bank in Iowa City, began adding to profits.

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Dear Mr. Berko:

What’s going on with Schering-Plough? It used to be $60 a share just two years ago. Do you think this stock can recover from the current low $16 price by this time …

There are rules and there are rules. Most salespeople don’t follow them. Most service people don’t follow them. Oh, they follow the policy rules that companies make to protect themselves. I’m not talking about those …

Etiquette was a staple of the formal 1950s, according to Deborah Rinner, a training consultant with Tero International Inc. Then, in the 1960s and ’70s, old societal rules were challenged. During the 1980s, a new, …

Monsanto officials announced Oct. 15 that the company is abandoning its efforts to produce pharmaceuticals from genetically engineered crops, saying that it plans to focus instead on businesses that have greater prospects to begin paying …

Sarabeth Anderson and her husband, Will, were looking for a way to come home to Iowa. After having their second child, they wanted to be closer to their families. Then one day, her husband saw …

Sport felled the Albia buck. It stopped a magnificent creature from roaming the hills of Southern Iowa and robbed the people there of a bona fide legend, a behemoth of the wild they’d consider themselves …

It turns out the early birds really do get the worms, at least when it comes to the Grow Iowa Values Fund.

It emerged last week that of the three companies that lined up first …

In the past six years, the number of hotel rooms booked by convention visitors in the Des Moines metro area has more than quadrupled, from about 60,000 room-nights in 1997 to nearly 258,000 room-nights in …

George “Lefty” Mills hitch hiked around Iowa in search of a journalism job in 1928, the first leg in a journey that made him one of the state’s most trusted reporters and respected historians. He …