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submitted by Robby for team staff news 18 hours 27 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) -- Vodafone Group PLC has reported an 11 percent drop in full-year profit due to higher taxes and weaker operations in Europe....
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submitted by JKM 137 weeks 6 days 3 hours 47 minutes ago
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co will close Saturn and wind down its dealership network after a deal to sell the faltering brand to Penske Automotive Group collapsed, the automaker said on Wednesday.
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submitted by Grace 184 weeks 2 days 18 hours 1 minute ago
The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you...(more)
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submitted by Mr X 115 weeks 7 hours 55 minutes ago
GENEVA (AP) -- A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba....
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submitted by Lisa 200 weeks 3 days 7 hours 57 minutes ago
Starbucks has begun to identify the estimated 600 stores it will close beginning this month.
The company has posted a list on its Web site at links.sfgate.com/ZEFL, which it said will be updated as closure dates are confirmed.
Eighty-eight of the shops are in California; below are the...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 219 weeks 5 days 20 hours 3 minutes ago
President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the national drive toward ethanol production was also driving up the cost of corn and other foods, a problem he said needed to be addressed.
The boom in alternative fuels, he said, was "beginning to affect the price of food....(more)
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submitted by owen 235 weeks 1 day 21 hours 43 minutes ago
Les six fédérations de cheminots CGT, FO, CFTC, Unsa, CFE-CGC et SUD ont appelé, dimanche 18 novembre, à reconduire pour 24 heures la grève à la SNCF contre la réforme des régimes spéciaux de retraite.
Les syndicats ont décidé d'appeler "à la reconduite du mouvement pour 24...(more)
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submitted by Grace 245 weeks 6 days 11 hours 25 minutes ago
A cartoon hangs in the Orange County Great Park design studio in Irvine. Not for comic relief, but as a cautionary tale.
The black-and-white sketch from a 1918 issue of the New York Times shows a bird's eye view of what Manhattan's Central Park would look like...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Obama Watch 127 weeks 2 days 8 hours 4 minutes ago
President Barack Obama's top economic adviser says creating jobs takes priority over reducing the country's red ink in the next year.
Larry Summers says priority No. 1 must be getting people back to work and lowering the country's 10 percent unemployment rate.
Summers says only then can the...(more)
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submitted by pascal 205 weeks 1 day 6 hours 4 minutes ago
Housing prices in Southern California continued their record-setting decline in May, falling 27% from year-ago levels, as lenders continued to depress median prices by dumping foreclosed homes in rising numbers, according to DataQuick Information Systems. Housing prices have now rolled back to early 2004 levels, DataQuick...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 175 weeks 19 hours 2 minutes ago
Use it up -- wear it out -- make it do!
It's the credo that your parents or grandparents lived by. Posters from the World War II era screamed it at careless consumers and those without money to spend.
Now, as more Americans have been swept into what...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 183 weeks 2 days 8 hours 45 minutes ago
Six years of relentlessly rising prices have showered the oil industry with record profits even as whipsawing energy costs have left many Americans alternately furious and baffled.
Now that the roller coaster ride appears to be screeching to a halt, one corporate giant remains confident it can...(more)
