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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:23am EST
Inflation, caused in part by the skyrocketing price of oil, is pushing many ordinary people toward poverty even as oil money stimulates a new surge of economic growth in the gulf.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:12am EST
Estimates of Britney Spears’s net worth vary from $50 million to $125 million, but being a wealthy pop icon doesn’t make one impervious to financial disaster.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:12am EST
Licenses are no longer as coveted in adolescence, as parents are more willing to be chauffeurs.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:02am EST
As president of the United Automobile Workers union, Mr. Fraser agreed to concessions that helped the Chrysler Corporation avoid bankruptcy in the late 1970s.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:51am EST
The ABC network is offering an on-demand service that allows viewers to watch shows any time they choose. The catch: viewers’ can’t fast-forward through commercials.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:47am EST
Terrance McKnight will make his discovery of New York an integral part of his role as the new host of “Evening Music” on WNYC-FM, 93.9
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:40am EST
A software developer has created a new system that will power potentially tens of thousands of applications that merge the Internet and the PC.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:26am EST
The victory of Sony’s new Blu-ray high-definition disc over a rival format, Toshiba’s HD DVD, masks a problem facing the studios: the overall decline of the DVD market.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:22am EST
Businesses and nonprofit organizations are using this year’s leap year day — Feb. 29 — as the occasion to make special proposals and pitches of their own.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:17am EST
A San Francisco start-up called Get Satisfaction is the latest online ombudsman to try to mediate customer service complaints.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:10am EST
A little-known private company, Akoo International, aims to transform mobile devices into universal remote controls.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:10am EST
Argentina and Brazil are facing the possibility of short-term energy crises from a lack of natural gas needed to fuel industries and generate electricity for residents.
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Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:03am EST
Gorkana keeps tabs on job-hopping in the world of business journalism but it is put together by a group of people journalists generally consider suspicious: publicists.
