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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 5:16am EST
My first day I was assigned to cosmetics. I begged to leave. The manager suggested I stick it out for six weeks. I never left.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 4:36am EST
Leonard S. Riggio, the founder and chairman of Barnes & Noble, announced a $20 million donation to help hurricane victims in New Orleans.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 3:17am EST
O. Bruton Smith has used leverage, power, money and a born salesman’s bulldog drive to build drag strips, racetracks and an assortment of companies that have made him a billionaire.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 3:08am EST
The companies that own the rights to the Scrabble board game say Scrabulous, a popular online knockoff, is piracy.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 3:05am EST
Reverse mortgages have boomed, but many consumers complain of unethical and high-pressure sales tactics.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:35am EST
Zeroing In.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:34am EST
When months of job hunting lead to a dead end, consider an attitude adjustment.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:30am EST
After a sparkling start to the week, stocks plummeted on Friday, pulling the market down for the week and for the fourth consecutive month.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:29am EST
Barack Obama is clearly an intelligent man. So it may not be too early to start a process of education about oil companies and why attacking them is not smart.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:28am EST
Whatever became of the much-ballyhooed Fed rally?
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:28am EST
Selling may be the reflexive response by shareholders who have watched the value of their assets decline, but investment advisers contend that they should consider buying instead.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:28am EST
If people do not see any risk, and see only the prospect of outsized investment returns, they will pursue those returns with disregard for the risks.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:27am EST
Improv actors know a thing or two about flexibility and creativity.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:24am EST
Travelers who don’t trust the water from a mountain stream or a hotel-room faucet have a portable high-tech option for purifying drinking water.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:19am EST
On Wall Street these days, leading strategists are looking to the past to try to explain what lies ahead for the stock market in 2008.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:18am EST
Economists may want to look at what could be called the “career complacency index” when assessing the health of the economy.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:15am EST
In spite of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight off a recession, a consumer-led recession has already begun.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:14am EST
Workers are getting fewer hours, and those without jobs are staying unemployed longer or accepting lower pay.
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Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 2:11am EST
Two new works look at Russia’s economic progress as Dmitri A. Medvedev succeeds Vladimir Putin in the presidency.
