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Local Hearts Get Drug-Coated Stents

St. Mary’s Hospital in Rogers was the first Northwest Arkansas hospital to use a new drug-coated stent, just days after the Food and Drug Administration approved it for the treatment of blocked coronary arteries.

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Sexton Mentors Winners

Two teams from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville won the graduate and undergraduate competitions at the 2003 Governor?s Award for Entrepreneurial Development.

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Prudent P.A.M. Buys ?Em Cheap

P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc.?s acquisition of McNeil Trucking Inc. of Little Rock is the latest in a line of what appear to be prudent buyouts of good or salvageable companies.

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XNA to Expand Terminal

The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport board voted on April 28 to solicit proposals from four architectural firms to expand the lobby and ticket counters in the airport?s Alice Walton Terminal.

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MasterCard to Pay Retailers $1 Billion

MasterCard International Inc. broke with Visa USA Inc. and agreed to pay the nation’s biggest retailers about $1 billion to settle a lawsuit against the two credit-card behemoths over the fees they charge, The Wall Street Journal reported.