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MAULDIN, S.C., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- City agencies in Chicago, New York and Miami have a head start in the race to put billions of federal stimulus dollars to work repairing, renovating and maintaining America's roads, bridges and public buildings. These cities, and dozens of others around the country, have job order contracts (JOC) from The Gordian Group in place that will enable them to put funds from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to work virtually overnight. JOC...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) on Wednesday named the country's capital Tokyo as its candidate to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee will accept bids from 2008 with a final decision on who will host the 2016 Games to be made in 2009. So far, India, Japan, Spain, the United States and Brazil have expressed interest. Italy is also considering a bid. Apart from the 1964 Summer Games, Japan has also hosted the Winter Olympics twice,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The southern Japanese city of Fukuoka formally joined the country's capital Tokyo on Monday in the race to host the 2016 Olympics. Fukuoka mayor Hirotaro Yamasaki presented his city's bid proposal to the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), heralding the start of a two-horse race to become Japan's 2016 candidate. "We are expecting to see a plan of the highest quality that will be recognized as such by the world," JOC president Tsunekasu Takeda told reporters. Tokyo, host...

By Isabel Reynolds TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo formally joined the race to host the Olympics for a second time on Wednesday after the city's metropolitan assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution to bid for the 2016 Games. Last month, Sapporo followed Nagoya's earlier decision to rule itself out of the running, leaving just the capital city and Fukuoka, on the southern island of Kyushu, as the only two cities in contention. The Japanese Olympics Committee welcomed Tokyo's announcement....