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D.C. law firm Arent Fox names Mark M. Katz new chairman
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by V. Dion Haynes
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The Washington law firm Arent Fox said Monday that it has named longtime partner Mark M. Katz as its new chairman, a leadership change that comes as the legal sector copes with an economic downturn that has curtailed business and prompted layoffs.
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Obama launches attack on health insurance companies
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Amy Goldstein and Scott Wilson
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The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.
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U.S. cotton subsidies spur trade sanctions in Brazil
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post
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BRAZIL Brazil announced trade sanctions Monday on a range of American goods, affecting products from Heinz ketchup to Ford automobiles, retaliating for billions of dollars that the United States pours into domestic cotton subsidies.
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Video Vault, cult movie rental favorite, to close in April
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Mike Musgrove
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Another video rental store might have been content to boast a "Horror" section, but Alexandria's Video Vault always catered to far more specialized tastes.
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What is a credit default swap?
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post
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That's part of what Greece's prime minister, George Papandreou, blames for his country's financial crisis. A credit default swap is a form of insurance on bonds that investors buy and sell. When it looks like a bond issuer might have trouble paying, its CDS prices soar because the bonds are more...
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST
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Toyota demo counters claim of electronic acceleration glitch
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Frank Ahrens
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Embattled Japanese auto giant Toyota launched a broad counter-attack on Monday aimed at refuting research that suggests electronics may be at the heart of runaway acceleration problems that have led the automaker to recall more than 6 million vehicles.
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Analysis finds uneasy mix in auto industry and regulation
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Kimberly Kindy
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Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota's runaway-acceleration problems.
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Foreign Digest: Pakistan, Iran, China, Guantanamo, Dubai, Haiti
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Post
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Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella militant group that had been weakened in recent months, staged a forceful resurgence Monday with an attack that killed at least 12 in the heartland city of Lahore. As the workday began, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed truck into an unmarked...
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Bankruptcy law doesn't restrict free speech, Supreme Court says
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:00am EST by Robert Barnes
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A federal law that bars attorneys from telling clients who are contemplating bankruptcy to take on more debt is not an unconstitutional restriction on the free-speech rights of lawyers, the Supreme Court decided Monday.