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Blockbuster said it will take its unsolicited bid for Circuit City directly to its shareholders, saying the electronics retailer has not responded to repeated offers.
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The author testified in a Manhattan courtroom against a fan accused of stealing her work in a reference guide.
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The Supreme Court declined to review the sentence of a South Carolina teen-ager whose lawyers blamed the antidepressant in his killing of his grandparents.
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Joseph P. Brandon, the chairman and chief executive of the insurance company, resigned under pressure on Monday. The company said its president, Franklin Montross, will succeed Mr. Brandon.
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Samuel Israel III, the founder of the hedge fund Bayou Group, was sentenced for his role in a scheme that cheated investors out of more than $400 million.
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From Ireland to India, housing markets that soared over the last decade are falling back to earth.
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The two companies are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.
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A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally.
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No new hit has emerged this year in the network’s prime-time schedule, which makes CBS likely to lose the crown of most-watched network to the Fox network.
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The bank, hit by mounting housing losses and an ill-timed acquisition of a big California mortgage lender, said it would raise the capital through a stock sale.
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With the Olympics in mind, China has been exploring American-style public relations approaches.
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The Dutch company said falling television sales in North America offset growth in its health care and lighting industries during the first quarter.
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Excluding gasoline sales, retail sales were flat last month, evidence that consumers are wary about spending in an economy that appears to be contracting.
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J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is expected to testify against a small publisher looking to bring out an encyclopedia based on her work.
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The economic downturn, logistical problems and, critics say, design flaws have dimmed prospects for the plan.
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The I.R.S.’s scrutiny of the nation’s biggest companies is at a 20-year low, “a historic collapse in audits,” according to a new study.
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When Salim B. Lewis and his wife began building three suburban-style homes for the workers on their farm, they didn’t realize they were wading into a regulatory brawl.
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Resistance is building against a plan to use Internet service providers as copyright cops against users illegally downloading copyrighted material, with possible disconnection from services being at stake.
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The world’s economic ministers declared on Sunday that shortages and skyrocketing prices for food posed a potentially greater threat to economic and political stability than the turmoil in capital markets.
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The two companies have seemed on the verge of announcing a deal several times in recent months only to back away from a merger.
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For a while, it was not clear whether the videos of the “McCain Girls,” a trio of singing and dancing campaign supporters, were meant to be sincere or ironic.
