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Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg more time to gain users and boost sales, three people familiar with the matter said.
 
Facebook - Initial public offering - Social network - Online Communities - Mark Zuckerberg |
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Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank, authors of the U.S. financial overhaul, plan hearings on the status of global talks to revise bank-capital standards amid worries that proposed rules are being watered down.
United States - Government - Chris Dodd - Business - President |
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July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates pledged to help the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs probe how insurers reap profits from death benefits retained for the families of deceased military personnel.
Pentagon - United States Secretary of Defense - Robert Gates - September 11 2001 - Terrorism |
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The economy continued to expand in the second quarter but at a slower rate than in the previous three months, according to new government data, as Americans remained reluctant to consume and imports soared.
Economic growth - United States - Economic - Gross domestic product - Thomson Reuters |
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DETROIT -- The government's bailout of the American auto industry last year sparked political hand-wringing about the end of capitalism and allegations that President Obama aspired to be CEO of what critics dubbed "Government Motors."
Michigan - United States - Barack Obama - President - General Motors |
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The U.S. financial system remains under stress, with small and midsize banks in particular potentially needing to raise more capital, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund that shows the continuing strains facing the U.S. economy.
International Monetary Fund - Financial services - Business - Economic - International |
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The law Congress adopted this spring to reshape the nation's health-care system will be especially beneficial to women, because they traditionally have relied on health care more than men, faced more insurance problems and had greater difficulty paying medical bills, according to a new analysis.
Commonwealth Fund - Health - Health care - United States - Politics |
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Upfront insurance premium What is it? A fee the Federal Housing Administration collects from borrowers that can be paid in cash at the closing table or rolled into the loan.
Federal Housing Administration - Business - United States - Mortgage - Financial Services |
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Seller concessions What are they? Contributions that sellers kick in to help defray a buyer's costs. They can include closing costs, inspections, appraisals and free upgrades. What's changing? The FHA proposes slashing allowable seller concessions in half, capping them at 3 percent of the home pr...
Federal Housing Administration - Business - United States - Mortgage - Financial Services |
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PALM COAST, FLA. -- The recession is claiming yet another victim: Americans' near-constitutional right to pick up and move to a better job.
Business - Recreation - Employment - Health - Travel |
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Sam and Charles Wyly, billionaire Texas brothers who gained prominence spending millions of dollars on conservative political causes, committed fraud by using secret overseas accounts to generate more than $550 million in profit through illegal stock trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Fraud - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - One Complainant - Articles |
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Foreclosure activity climbed in three-quarters of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas in the first half of 2010, compared with the same period a year ago, but declined in some of the nation's hardest-hit regions, according to data released Thursday.
United States - RealtyTrac - Real estate - Metropolitan area - Nevada |
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A top Federal Reserve official warned Thursday that the nation faces the risk of an extended period of falling prices known as deflation, such as that experienced by Japan over the past two decades.
Federal Reserve System - Central bank - James Bullard - Deflation - United States |
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Citigroup, one of the nation's largest banks, agreed Thursday to pay $75 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that it misled investors about $40 billion of its holdings in subprime mortgage investments.
Citigroup - Subprime lending - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - US Securities and Exchange Commission |
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The International Monetary Fund on Thursday released its first detailed assessment of the Chinese economy in four years, a document less interesting in its details than for the fact that it was made public at all.
China - Asia - United States - Google - Business and Economy |
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The Federal Trade Commission issued stringent new rules cracking down on the burgeoning debt-relief industry on Thursday, saying it too often charges consumers hefty upfront fees but fails to reduce the amount of money they owe creditors.
Business - Debt settlement - Financial Services - Federal Trade Commission - Financial Planning |
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In a fresh blow to President Obama's jobs agenda, the Senate on Thursday shelved a plan to create a $30 billion loan fund for cash-strapped small businesses, delaying final passage of a top administration priority until September at the earliest.
Filibuster - Senate - United States - Government - Legislative Branch |
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Toyota said Thursday that it is recalling 412,000 Avalons and Lexuses for steering problems, bringing the number of cars recalled around the world since October to nearly 9 million.
United States - Toyota - auto - Toyota Avalon - Automobile |
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Strayer Education said Thursday that its profit grew 30 percent in the second quarter as student enrollment increased.
Net income - Programming - Component Frameworks - NET - Tools |
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As part of its attempt to boost Afghanistan's economic and political development, the United States is paying thousands of Afghan contractors and subcontractors to perform much of the work that supports U.S. efforts there. But the "Afghan First" program could be achieving just the opposite of its...
Afghanistan - History - Wars and Conflicts - Nineteenth Century - Anglo-Afghan War |
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Citigroup, one of the nation's largest banks, agreed Thursday to pay $75 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that it misled investors about $40 billion of its holdings in sub-prime mortgage investments that sent the bank to the edge of collapse.
Citigroup - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms - US Securities and Exchange Commission - Subprime lending |
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The U.S. military's top officer charged Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in releasing tens of thousands of secret documents, had endangered the lives of American troops and Afghan informants who have assisted U.S. forces.
Afghanistan - United States - Wikileaks - War in Afghanistan - Wars and Conflicts |
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Toyota Corp. said Thursday that it is recalling 412,000 Avalons and Lexuses for steering problems, bringing the number of cars recalled around the world since October to nearly 9 million.
Toyota - Automobile - auto - Toyota Avalon - Makes and Models |
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Former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling is seeking to be released from prison on bail while an appeals court reconsiders convictions questioned by the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court - Enron - Jeffrey Skilling - Law |
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Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop his push to re-regulate broadband lines.
United States - Government - Cecilia Kang - Facebook - Washington Post |
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The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
White House - United States - President - Government - Executive Branch |
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Was Tony Hayward right, after all? Back in May, BP's chief executive told a British newspaper that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean," and the vast amounts of oil and chemical dispersants dumped into it were small by comparison. After he said that, BP's well leaked for two more months. Hayw...
Gulf of Mexico - Energy - Business - Oil and Gas - Operating Companies |
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The U.S. economy is out of the ditch. But is there enough gas left in the engine to reach highway speed?
Economic - Asia - Politics - Barack Obama - United States |
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The Obama administration is revising the latest report on its troubled mortgage-relief program, and the changes are likely to show a greater number of borrowers facing foreclosure after having their loans modified.
Education - Methods and Theories - Learning Theories - Digestion - Volkswagen |
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Employees at seven federal agencies will soon receive notice that they could have a new employer this time next year: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
United States - Home - Consumer Information - Advocacy and Protection - Business |
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Energy provider Dominion Resources said Wednesday that a sale of its assets and higher electric demand helped its net income more than triple in the second quarter.
Fannie Mae - Business - Programming - NET - Component Frameworks |
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As President Obama and his adversaries look for winning themes in the run-up to the November congressional election, both sides are noisily clamoring to prove their support for a critical constituency: America's small-business owners.
Small business - United States - Democratic - Politics - Republican |
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The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Wikileaks - Afghanistan - History - United States armed forces |
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President Obama's message to voters this election year is simple and full of populist zeal: Democrats are on the side of the little guy, not the Wall Street brokers, celebrities and chief executives.
Barack Obama - United States - President - Government - Elections |
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By the time the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to raise rates earlier this month, an unusual alliance of customers was in place to oppose it.
Mail - United States - Recreation - United States Postal Service - Stamps |
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President Obama said Wednesday that Republicans should join Democrats in passing legislation to help provide loans to small businesses.
Small business - Business - Barack Obama - United States - President |
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Small business - Business - Barack Obama - United States - President |
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TOKYO -- Her new country needs her, her new employer adores her, and Joyce Anne Paulino, who landed here 14 months ago knowing not a word of the language, can now say in Japanese that she'd like very much to stay. But Paulino, 31, a nurse from the Philippines, worries about the odds. To stay in J...
Law - United States - Immigration - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms |
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A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad" is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal probe that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accordi...
Oil spill - Environment - United States - Energy - United States Department of Justice |
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The Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling:
Legal Information - Law - Sex Offenses - Crime - Child Pornography |
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New census data released Tuesday confirm a huge spread in the rate of uninsured from state to state and the big difference in impact that can be expected as a result of the health-care overhaul recently passed by Congress.
Census - Government - United States - Department of Commerce - Executive Branch |
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General Electric agreed Tuesday to pay $23.4 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint that GE bribed Iraqi government officials to win contracts to supply medical and water purification equipment under the U.N. Oil for Food program.
General Electric - Business - Oil-for-Food Programme - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Allegedly Unethical Firms |
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation requiring fuller disclosure of the money behind political advertising, derailing a major White House initiative and virtually ensuring an onslaught of attack ads during this year's midterm election season.
Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate - United States - Democratic - Senate - Government |
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Two of the country's largest unions have resolved a vicious feud that roiled organized labor for 18 months, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, undermining each other's organizing efforts, and distracting it from opportunities presented by Democratic control of Congress and...
Workers United - United States - Work - Labor Movement - Labor |
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BP said Tuesday that it plans to cut its U.S. tax bill by $9.9 billion, or about half the amount pledged to aid victims of the disaster, by deducting costs related to the oil spill.
BP - Tax - United States - Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico |
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The forthcoming electric car the Chevrolet Volt will cost $41,000, General Motors announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above those of similarly sized conventional autos.
ChevroletVolt - General Motors - Chevrolet - ChevyVolt - Recreation |
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BP gave investors a glimpse of its future Tuesday, one that will feature a new American chief executive, slimmed-down operations, and $32.2 billion or more in payments to clean up and compensate people affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP - United States - Tony Hayward - Gulf of Mexico - TNK-BP |
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A panel of world financial officials has reached "broad agreement" on new rules to govern the global banking system but has postponed some key elements for as long as seven years while the impact is studied, the Switzerland-based group said Monday.
Business - Financial Services - Banking Services - Banks and Institutions - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision |
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When Democratic Rep. John Boccieri went home to Ohio early this year to talk with voters in his Canton-based district, he figured he would have to do battle with at least some constituents over his support for health-care reform. And the economic stimulus. And the auto company bailouts.
Energy - United States - Rust Belt - Democratic - Technology |
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Some suggested measures to control systemic risk by limiting credit and asset bubbles:
Politics - Term Limits - Campaigns and Elections - Election Reform - Games |
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The European Union opened two antitrust probes of IBM on Monday, accusing the U.S. technology giant of abusing its dominant position in the mainframe computer market. One investigation stems from complaints by IBM competitors T3 and Turbo Hercules, who say that IBM "shuts out providers of emulation...
IBM - European Union - Operating system - Microsoft - European Commission |
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He fell just short of winning the White House in 2004. Four years later, he was rumored to be a leading contender to be secretary of state, until President-elect Barack Obama stunned everyone by tapping his former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Climate change - Environment - John Kerry - Activism - Organizations |
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While the nation's housing market struggles amid a sudden downdraft that has once again battered sales, the Washington region appears relatively insulated and poised for a turnaround.
Real estate economics - Business - Residential - Real Estate - Housing |
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With powerful senators watching closely, federal investigators search high and low for evidence of insider trading in shares of Microsoft. One of Wall Street's best-known hedge fund managers is targeted, but the feds can't find proof. Years pass, and they close the case without filing charges.
Business - Arts - Literature - Whistleblower - Internal Revenue Service |
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-- Chris Cillizza's Monday Fix column in the July 26 A-section, about political candidates who use their personal wealth in attempts to get elected, incorrectly cited Terry McAuliffe as an example. The column said that McAuliffe spent millions in his unsuccessful 2009 bid for the Democratic...
Corrections - Law Enforcement - Law - State Agencies - United States |
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PARIS -- Falling into step with the United States, European nations significantly broadened economic sanctions against Iran on Monday in what was described as an effort to force Tehran to resume serious negotiations on its disputed nuclear program.
European Union - Government - Iran - Multilateral - U.S. sanctions against Iran |
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For more than a year, General Electric has been notable among U.S. corporations for enjoying generally friendly relations with the White House. The company was broadly supportive of President Obama's stimulus efforts, and its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, sits on a White House economic advisory board.
General Electric - United States - Barack Obama - President - History |
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As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests Americans are being exposed to BPA through another, surprising route: paper receipts.
Business - Pulp and Paper - Materials - Paper - Bisphenol A |
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CHICAGO -- As governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich was a bully who rigged state business to build his campaign treasury and line his pockets, a federal prosecutor said Monday, urging jurors to find Blagojevich guilty of two dozen corruption charges.
Rod Blagojevich - Barack Obama - United States - United States Senate - Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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Americans might be counting on the day when home and retirement-fund values start to rise again, but anyone expecting to benefit from a future boom in prices should take note: Economic policymakers around the world are looking for ways to make sure that doesn't happen, or at least not with such i...
Buzzword - Music and Audio - Multimedia - Buzz - Business |
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Tony Hayward is about to get his life back. According to multiple news reports, the embattled CEO is expected to step down after the board discusses and approves his exit in a meeting today. One of the biggest questions many will be asking: What took them so long?
Tony Hayward - BP - United States - Organizations - Gulf of Mexico |
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For a London-based petroleum company that relies largely on oil produced in the United States and Russia, Robert Dudley might be just the ticket.
United States - Business - Chief executive officer - Tony Hayward - BP |
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Wikileaks' decision to transfer tens of thousands of raw classified field reports on the Afghan war to the New York Times and two European news organizations reflects the growing strength and sophistication of the small nonprofit Web site, founded three years ago to fight what it considers excess...
Wikileaks - United States - Julian Assange - War in Afghanistan - Classified information |
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Nonprofit health insurers may be setting aside unnecessarily large surpluses even as some of them continue to raise premiums, according to an analysis by a consumer rights group.
Insurance - Consumer organization - Home - Health - Consumer Information |
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-- Thomson Financial
Sports - Teams - United States - Security - Stock |
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These firms recently filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's local clerk of court offices.
Bankruptcy - United States - Law - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms |
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CSC of Falls Church named Debbie Granberry vice president of business development for its North American public sector civil and health services group; Kristine A. Burnell vice president of business development for its North American public sector applied technology group; and Kenneth W. Deutsch...
Windows - Stock - Chief executive officer - United States - Press release |
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MONDAY Business Etiquette and People Skills for Job Searching and Career Advancement. Learn the power of modern manners in your job hunt and career progress. 9:45 to 11:30 a.m., 1718 P St. NW, Suite T2, Washington. Sponsor: 40Plus of Greater Washington. Contact: 202-387-1582 or info@40Plus-DC.org ....
United States - Apple - IPhone - Wi-Fi - Education |
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As the first reports of the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion trickled in to BP's London headquarters in April, BP chief executive Tony Hayward wondered whether to fly immediately to the United States.
United States - Business - Chief executive officer - Tony Hayward - BP |
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PORTO DO ACU, BRAZIL -- Here along the golden sands that grace the Atlantic coastline 175 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, China is forging a new economic reality.
Brazil - South America - Travel and Tourism - Government - Travel Services |
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Hundreds of angry residents of Bell, Calif., marched to the homes and businesses of city officials of the modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb Sunday in a protest sparked by the sky-high salaries of three recently departed administrators.
Bell - City council - Los Angeles - United States - Counties |
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner took the lead Sunday in continuing the Obama administration's push for extending middle-class tax cuts while allowing similar cuts for the nation's wealthiest individuals to expire in January.
United States - Tax - Taxation - Accounting - United States Secretary of the Treasury |
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In February, when unpredictable Sen. Jim Bunning single-handedly stalled extensions of unemployment benefits for several days, his Republican colleagues quickly abandoned him, worried that the GOP would be cast as the party against helping people who are out of work.
United States - Politics - Republican - Parties - Opposing Views |
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Even as the public's disdain for politics and politicians rises to historic levels, a new crop of millionaires -- and billionaires -- is spending freely from their fortunes in hopes of winning elected office.
United States - The Fix - Politics - Business - Government |
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA. -- Ten minutes is usually all it takes for Susan Estler to find an inviting beach scene, snap it with her iPhone camera, and blast it to roadside digital billboards from Baltimore to Atlanta.
Environment - Energy - Oil spill - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation |
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Steven A. Museles Position: Co-chief executive and board member of CapitalSource, a Chevy Chase-based commercial lender that provides financial products to middle-market businesses.
Business - CapitalSource - United States - California - Entrepreneur |
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My law school days were an exciting time on Wall Street. There were hostile takeovers, exciting mergers and acquisition transactions and leveraged buyouts. Corporate and securities law was an attractive area to focus on, so I stuck with it.
United States - Business - CapitalSource - Employment - Southern California |
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In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.
United States - Immigration - Law - Anti-Immigration - Services |
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Tony Hayward's departure from his job as BP's chief executive will be at the center of the agenda when the company's board of directors meets Monday night, according to a source close to the company.
Tony Hayward - BP - United States - Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico |
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KENNER, LA. -- If there is no smoking gun in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, it is because there is smoke coming from so many places.
Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation |
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President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress are setting the stage for a high-stakes battle over taxes in the final weeks before the November congressional elections, betting that their plan to eliminate tax breaks for the wealthy will resonate with voters who have lost houses and jobs to w...
Tax cut - United States - Tax - Republican - Politics |
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DENVER -- When Matt Cook was coaxed out of early retirement to become Colorado's chief revenue enforcer three years ago, he assumed his time would be spent overseeing the casinos, liquor stores and car dealerships he had been keeping an eye on for much of his career.
Medical cannabis - Colorado - United States - Health - Cannabis |
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DETROIT -- Among workers building the Jeep Grand Cherokee here, there are few obvious distinctions. Clutching lunch sacks and mini-coolers, they trudge together through the turnstiles at the plant's main gate each day to tinker with the same vehicles, along the same assembly line, performing the...
United States - Canadian Auto Workers - Government - Assembly line - General Motors |
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The sun never rises for BP. Or so it seems. After it had finally stanched the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico last week, this week brought news that the "cap" it placed on the gushing wellhead might be producing "seepage" elsewhere on the sea floor. From triumph to tribulation, over the course ...
United Airlines - Los Angeles - Denver International Airport - Federal Aviation Administration - Washington Dulles International Airport |
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If he had his wish, Alex Maltby would be working with autistic children as a classroom aide, the best job he ever had. Instead, he is at his mother's kitchen table in Silver Spring pondering job possibilities -- 33 years old and visually impaired, looking for a way to make a living.
Disability - Business - Unemployment - Federal Reserve System - Sports |
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LAS VEGAS -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stepped into a convention of liberal activists here Saturday with a blunt appeal: The gates to a progressive agenda have opened under Democratic control, she said, and they will close if Republicans seize power in the fall midterm elections.
Democratic - United States - Politics - Nancy Pelosi - Parties |
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CORNWALL, N.Y. The hardest part was northbound on the New York State Thruway, especially near the Sloatsburg Service Area, where state troopers are especially active. I dropped the Mustang's six-speed manual transmission into fourth gear and prayed the car wouldn't stray past the posted 65-mph li...
Ford - Mustang - Makes and Models - Recreation - Autos |
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Your next boss might want to know more than your last one about your personality, thought processes, motivations, work style, values and aptitude for the job. Or perhaps she just needs to screen out three-quarters of the applicants quickly. Either way, pre-employment testing is gaining as a tool ...
Tests - Programming - Business - Commercial Services - Security |
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Lily Garcia has advised companies on employment law and human resources for more than 10 years. This is adapted from a recent online discussion.
British Indian Ocean Territory - Asia - Jerry Garcia - Diego Garcia - Amir Bar-Lev |
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N ew york -- In hindsight, Scott Feldman's decision to sell his first home in late 2006 could have been a case study in a textbook called "How to Time the Real Estate Market."
Real estate - United States - Business - Services - Property Law and Real Estate |
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Sometime this spring, Democrats stopped calling Sen. Chris Dodd's bill "financial reform" and started calling it "Wall Street reform." Most of the headlines and news releases on the sweeping legislation focused on the well-heeled, white-collar, upper crust of finance -- investment banks,...
Loan - Payday loan - Business - Financial Services - Payday Advance Services |
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Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest mutual fund, takes a seat in a conference room and makes a confession. Overlooking the ocean at the headquarters of Pacific Investment Management Co., Gross describes missteps that doomed his bond firm's earlier experiment with equities.
Pimco - Bond - Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds |
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Instead of focusing on the politics behind the firing and subsequent redemption of Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, we should consider what she was trying to tell us when she addressed the NAACP.
Economic - Social Sciences - Consumption and Wealth - Inequality - Math |
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97% of Pimco's fixed-income rivals have fared worse than its signature fund has in the past decade.
Business - Pimco - Mutual fund - Investment management - Hong Kong |
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It's a mess across the pond. The problems facing Europe and the euro cannot be papered over with the rescue package of nearly $1 trillion the European Union cobbled together for Greece, Spain and Portugal. Not only are the "Club Med countries" spending too much, they are not competitive in world...
European Union - Government - Multilateral - Business - Investing |
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Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, has earned a reputation for spot-on analysis of the stock market and the economy as well as having a knack for connecting with individual investors.
Charles Schwab Corporation - Liz Ann Sonders - Wall Street - Business - Stock market |
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The oil and gas industry's offshore safety and environmental record in the Gulf of Mexico has become a key point of debate over future drilling, but that record has been far worse than is commonly portrayed by many industry leaders and lawmakers.
Oil spill - Energy - Environment - Petroleum in the Environment - Business |
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EARNINGS Ford posted a strong second-quarter profit Friday, its fifth straight quarterly profit, but trimmed its U.S. sales forecast and predicted weaker results in the second half as the economy slowly recovers.
McDonald - Business - United States - Middle East - Thomson Reuters |
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Sunrise Senior Living said Friday that it has agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over an investigation into the McLean company's financial reporting from 2003 to 2005.
Sunrise Senior Living - Business - Real estate - United States - Seniors |
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More than 160 distressed homeowners lined up in downtown Washington before dawn Friday in hopes of obtaining better mortgage terms, with help from housing advocacy group Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America.
United States - Mortgage - Business - Financial Services - JPMorgan Chase |
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Federal investigators have identified about 20 Pentagon employees and contractors who allegedly bought and downloaded online child pornography and in some cases used their government-issued computers to view the illegal material.
Child pornography - Crime - Sex Offenses - Legal Information - Pornography |
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Friday named a top staffer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to be acting director of the agency when John C. Dugan leaves office next month.
John C. Dugan - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - United States - John Dugan - Presidency of Barack Obama |
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