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        <title>3M from Minnesota Public Radio</title>
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            <title>3M profits flat; cuts 2013 guidance</title>
            <description><![CDATA[First-quarter profits for Maplewood-based 3M barely rose, as the company posted net income of $1.1 billion. Sales for the first three months of the year grew two percent to $7.6 billion.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:45:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M says 4Q profit rose 3.9 percent</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Demand for office and health care products helped lift 3M&#039;s fourth-quarter profit, despite a slowdown in other parts of the company&#039;s business.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:38:24 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M&#039;s new CEO, Inge Thulin, takes helm</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M shareholders greeted the company&#039;s new CEO, Inge Thulin, at the firm&#039;s annual meeting today in St. Paul.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:06:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Libraries turn to cloud for e-book lending</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans now own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers. And libraries are taking notice, expanding their collections of e-books they can loan to patrons.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:29:47 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M officials expect company growth, but global financial woes will continue</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Officials with 3M expect financial woes around the world to continue in the upcoming year, but nothing approaching a financial meltdown.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:11:20 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Tiny technology is one of 3M&#039;s biggest assets</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M makes more than 50,000 products, but one of the company&#039;s most important technologies is at the core of a wide range of products, including road signs, grinders, and overhead projectors.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M cuts 2011 earnings forecast; Delta fails to meet street expectations</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Poor reports on corporate earnings and American consumer confidence dragged stocks lower Tuesday. Worries about Europe&#039;s debt problems also pulled the market down after three days of gains.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:51:47 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M earnings limited by drop in LCD demand</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Slowing demand for films for LCD televisions dampens 3M&#039;s second quarter.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:00:41 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M to introduce e-book service aimed at libraries</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M Co. plans to  debut an e-book service today that it hopes to sell to libraries across the country.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:08:49 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Alleging extortion, 3M sues British investment firm</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M has sued a British investment firm and its CEO, charging they have tried to extort $30 million from the Maplewood-based company.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:49:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M promotion reveals next in line for CEO job, analysts say</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street analysts believe Inge Thulin is in line to succeed CEO George Buckley when he steps down.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 11:54:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M raises 2011 forecast after 1Q profit jumps</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Maplewood-based maker of Post-Its and Scotch Tape raised its full-year earnings expectations despite taking a hit from the earthquake in Japan.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:57:01 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M among recipients of $27 million solar energy program</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded about $27 million to Minnesota-based 3M and eight other companies developing technology aimed at making solar energy more affordable.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:40:22 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Minnesota history: The rise of 3M</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Morning Edition&#039;s Cathy Wurzer paid a visit to the old St. Paul headquarters  of 3M recently with St. John&#039;s University historian Annette Atkins.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:58:49 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M forecasts adjusted profit up 10-14 percent in 2011</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M Co., which makes everything from Post-Its and
Scotch Tape to respirators and computer monitor arms, said Tuesday
it expects adjusted earnings to grow 10 to 14 percent next year
over its predicted profit for 2010.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:08:12 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M buying Eden Prairie medical products firm for $810M</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M says it will buy Arizant, an Eden Prairie firm that makes blankets, gowns and other products to keep surgical patients warm, for $810 million.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:29:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>New acquisitions increase 3M&#039;s share in security market</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M, the maker of products like Post-it Notes and sandpaper today took a big step into the business of people-watching. 

The Minnesota-based company is buying an Israeli company that makes tools for electronic tracking, monitoring and identification.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:33 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M to acquire Cogent for about $933 million</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M expects to pay nearly $1 billion for Cogent Inc., a California maker of automated systems that read fingerand palm prints.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/30/3m-acquisition?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:16:50 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M is bringing back the &#039;magic&#039;</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M reports its first quarter profits next week. These days, a growing portion of the industrial giant&#039;s sales are coming from new products. It&#039;s a payoff from the company&#039;s steady investment of more than $1 billion annually in research and development.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:57:20 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M donates royalty-paying patents to U of Minn.</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M Corp. has donated some
royalty-paying patents to the University of Minnesota&#039;s law school
and Office for Technology Commercialization.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:02:28 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>MPCA approves cleanup plan for Cottage Grove site</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The state has approved a final cleanup
plan for a disposal site in Cottage Grove contaminated by chemicals
formerly manufactured by 3M Co.]]></description>
                                                <link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/09/03/pfc-3m-cleanup?refid=0</link>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:17:46 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M begins cleanup of PFCs at former landfill</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Next week, excavators will start digging into a former landfill in Woodbury and removing soil contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M says it cut 1,000 jobs worldwide</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M announced on Monday it eliminated 1,000 jobs from its worldwide workforce in the second quarter of the year.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:10:38 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M offers buyouts to 3,600 US employees</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M Co. is offering early retirement packages to 3,600 employees in the U.S. as the maker of Post-it Notes and Scotch tape tries to cut costs amid the economic downturn.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:49:50 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M cuts 1,200 jobs worldwide</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M says today that it has cut 1,200 jobs from its worldwide workforce in the first quarter of the year. A spokeswoman says less than half the cuts are in the U.S., and several hundred of those jobs are in Minnesota, where 3M employs 15,000 workers.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:29:27 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>3M CEO George Buckley on doing business in Minnesota</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M is the only Minnesota company among the Dow 30 industrials, and is one of the state&#039;s largest corporate employers. The company&#039;s CEO George Buckley discusses the economy, the Minnesota business climate and trends in manufacturing and business.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:46:08 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Judge rejects health claims in 3M lawsuit</title>
            <description><![CDATA[A judge decided there is no proof
anyone has been hurt by tiny amounts of 3M-manufactured perfluorochemicals, or
PFCs, in drinking water.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:22:32 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M layoffs include 400 jobs in Twin Cities</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M says layoffs announced recently will include about 400 Twin Cities jobs as the weakening global economy cuts into profits.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:04 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M cutting 1,800 jobs in 4th quarter</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M Co. says it&#039;s cutting 1,800 jobs in the
fourth quarter, and ordering some workers to take vacation or unpaid time off for the last two months of the year.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:00:35 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Pollution Control chooses most aggressive plan for cleaning up former 3M site</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said it wants 3M to remove as much PFC contaminated soil as possible from its former Oakdale dump site.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:11:49 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Researcher says his study on 3M workers&#039; health is inconclusive</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The lead investigator on a new study of 3M workers exposed to the perfluorochemical PFOA  urges caution in interpreting its results.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:52:40 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Water contaminant PFBA not as toxic as previously thought</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The chemical was found in the drinking water of more than 143,000 residents.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:57:48 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M to cut 141 jobs</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Maplewood-based 3M is cutting 63 jobs in its display and graphics business to reduce costs. The job cuts will come in the Twin Cities and Menomonie, Wisconsin.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:48:57 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>MPCA board signs off on chemical cleanup deal with 3M</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency&#039;s
citizens&#039; board has unanimously approved an agreement under which 3M Co. will clean up long-buried chemicals that have contaminated groundwater in the east metropolitan area.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 16:33:29 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Toxic Traces Revisited</title>
            <description><![CDATA[In 2005, Minnesota Public Radio first raised questions about whether the state of Minnesota acted quickly enough to investigate contamination from 3M chemicals. Two years later a new 3M chemical has been found in drinking water, affecting more communities, and the state&#039;s response is again being questioned.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Whither 3M?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[George Buckley took the CEO job at Maplewood-based 3M a little more than a year ago. At the time there was speculation Buckley would put more of a priority on the science and engineering that has been at the company&#039;s core. The jury is still out on whether Buckley will provide the business leadership 3M needs.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:30:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M chemicals in Mississippi prompt new fish advisory</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Department of Health advises eating only one meal per week of bluegill sunfish from a stretch of the Mississippi river.  The advisory comes after elevated levels of a chemical compound formerly used in 3M Scotchguard products is found in fish there.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:28:34 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>3M&#039;s third quarter a strong one</title>
            <description><![CDATA[3M reported strong third-quarter earnings, due to cost-cutting and stronger sales in the Asia-Pacific region. Company officials say, despite the improved results, they don&#039;t yet see any rebound in the global economy.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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