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The suit accuses six banks that agreed to finance Clear Channel’s $19.5 billion buyout of reneging on their commitments.
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If there’s one issue that divides the self-employed from all other employees, it is their preoccupation with the subject of health insurance.
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Sharpcast introduces an automated Internet backup and synchronization service.
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Under pressure to raise its stock price, the company plans to split itself in two, spinning off its unprofitable mobile phone unit.
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“Improper” practices by New Century Financial were condoned and enabled by KPMG, according to an independent investigation.
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For both economic and psychological reasons, there is no asset more conducive to hopeful overvaluation than real estate.
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. defended the takeover even as he called for more transparency on the part of Wall Street.
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The business software company reported a 30 percent rise in quarterly profit, but a lower-than-expected increase in new software licenses caused shares to fall in after-hours trading.
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CBS News, which lags well behind its competitors in most areas of television news, wants a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the worst way.
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A pair of pessimistic reports on home sales and business spending reminded investors about the precarious state of the economy.
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I.B.M.’s service program for fast-tracked employees helps raise the company’s profile in countries where it doesn’t have a strong presence.
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The video game company famous for its “Grand Theft Auto” games told its shareholders to reject a $2 billion buyout bid from Electronic Arts, saying it was not sufficient.
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Seeking to put its legal problems behind it as it confronts larger financial ones, Citigroup became the last of 11 financial institutions to resolve Enron claims going back to 2003.
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New data suggested Europe was fairing better than many analysts had expected, but officials warned that a slowdown was probably inevitable.
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The $2.3 billion purchase price is more than the market expected but still about half what Ford originally paid for the luxury brands several years ago.
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The drug company has agreed to pay $15 million to the state of Alaska to settle a lawsuit claiming that its schizophrenia drug Zyprexa caused patients to develop diabetes.
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Creative Artists Agency is expected to launch WePlay.com, a social networking site for youth sports — something like Facebook for young athletes — in April.
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The concept of supply-side economics, introduced by Ronald Reagan when he ran for president in 1980, has made a return in this year’s election campaign, in an amended form.
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A group has improved one neighborhood’s foreclosure rate by helping high-risk borrowers to hold on to their homes.
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Yahoo announced it would join an alliance that will try to make it easier for programmers to write software that can run on many social networking Web sites.
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John McCain drew a sharp distinction with the Democratic presidential candidates, placing some of the blame on homeowners.
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As newspapers slash costs, the presence of relatively few print reporters on candidates’ buses and planes this year is striking.
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Mr. Riney was an iconoclastic copywriter who helped build San Francisco into a creative center for advertising.
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A private survey found that Americans feel worse about the economy’s prospects than at any time since 1973, when Americans struggled with soaring oil prices and inflation.
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The ruling is likely to discourage other states, including California, that had been considering following New York’s lead in enacting an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights.
