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XML Business NewsNLRB files vs. U.S. Foodservicepublished about 7 hours ago
The National Labor Relations Board has charged U.S. Foodservice Inc. with unfair labor practices.
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Building permits are down sharplypublished about 7 hours ago
Home-building permits dropped 39 percent in the Tucson area this year through September.
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Trico Electric CEO leaving for new jobpublished about 7 hours ago
The CEO of Trico Electric Cooperative is leaving his job for a position in Texas.
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Dow posts huge decline as troubling news piles uppublished about 7 hours ago
NEW YORK — The reality that the nation is indeed in recession and that the downturn may well be prolonged sent Wall Street plunging Monday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 700 points and wiping out more than half of last week's big gains.
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Yes: Doing nothing would put millions of people out of workpublished about 7 hours ago
The writers are addressing the question: "Should Congress bail out the Big Three automakers?
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Rice urges Pakistan to root out extremistspublished about 11 hours ago
Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, yesterday warned that Pakistan faced a "critical moment" in its recent history, one in which its leading institutions must...
Rice urges Islamabad to root out extremistspublished about 11 hours ago
Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, yesterday warned that Pakistan faced a "critical moment" in its recent history, one in which its leading institutions must...
US presses Pakistan to aid probepublished about 11 hours ago
The US yesterday began to put strong pressure on the Pakistani government to give "absolute and total" co-operation to India in the hunt for the ... more
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JD Sports sales dip amid gloompublished about 3 hours ago
The sports retailer blamed a strong previous year and economic conditions for a 1 per cent fall in like-for-like sales
Price rises hit limit says Thomas Cookpublished about 4 hours ago
The travel comany said no more capacity would be taken out of the market as it reported a 32 per cent rise in adjusted pre-tax ... more
Tesco takes the fight to discount retailerspublished about 4 hours ago
The supermarket group appeared to be winning the battle with discount retailers like Lidl and Aldi as it reported third quarter results that beat consensus ... more
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Germany attacks Brussels over Commerzbankpublished about 2 hours ago
Germany lashed out at the European Commission for delaying approval of a €8.2bn government capital injection into Commerzbank, Germany's second biggest commercial bank
Banks to swap debt for equity in Metrovacesapublished about 4 hours ago
Creditor banks of Metrovacesa, the struggling Spanish property company, plan to take 54 per cent of the company in exchange for debts owed to them, ... more
Lithuania frets as Brussels prepares to sap powerpublished about 11 hours ago
What one god gives, another takes away. Such is the dry humour with which Lithuanians greeted the imminent closure of the Ignalina nuclear power station, ... more
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India demands Pakistan hand over suspectspublished about 3 hours ago
India appeared to take a military strike in response to the attacks on Mumbai off the table after it served Pakistan with a request to ... more
SIA unit to buy Singapore Food Industriespublished about 7 hours ago
Singapore Airport Terminal Services, an airline caterer, has unveiled a S$335m cash offer for Singapore Food Industries, a supplier to the military and to supermarkets ... more
Australia cuts rates to a six-year lowpublished about 7 hours ago
The 100 basis point cut is the latest in response to mounting evidence that Australia's economy is cooling rapidly, with some economists predicting parts of ... more
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Chávez in poll reform pushpublished about 11 hours ago
Venezuela's ruling government's United Socialist party took the first steps yesterday towards seeking a referendum to enable President Hugo Chávez's re-election...
Brazil pledges to make big cut in Amazon deforestationpublished about 11 hours ago
Brazil vowed yesterday to cut the amount of deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to less than half the current rate. The pledge ... more
Brazil pledges to slash Amazon deforestationpublished about 11 hours ago
Brazil vowed yesterday to cut the amount of deforestation in the Amazon over the next decade to less than half the current rate. The pledge ... more
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Video: A toast to online winepublished about 12 hours ago
With old-fashioned liquor laws and complicated shipping procedures, selling or buying wine online has never been easy. But as CNET's Kara Tsuboi explains, it no ... more
Study spanks Adobe Flash for abuses of powerpublished about 12 hours ago
Think green, block ads We've known for years that graphics based on Adobe Flash and other third-party programming software can be clunky, time-consuming affairs that ... more
Video: Will Facebook be a game changer for social networking?published about 14 hours ago
Facebook comes up with a new feature it hopes will answer the myriad questions raised about identity and your data on the "open Web." On ... more
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European shares tread waterpublished about 1 hour ago
European shares trod water on Tuesday, turning flat after an early fall as investors awaited more central bank action to boost sliding economies.
For Online Gaming, Hard Times Mean Good Timespublished about 3 hours ago
China's economic slowdown may be creating fewer jobs, but it is producing more online gamers.
Toyota to cut bonuses by 10%published about 3 hours ago
Toyota Motor is to reduce year-end bonuses for thousands of managers by 10% as part of a cost-cutting drive in response to plummeting sales
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Bank plans for overdraft refundspublished about 3 hours ago
The RBS NatWest bank is planning to refund overdraft fees to customers "pro-actively" if it loses the current test case.
Car finance next to feel the freeze, says new reportpublished about 10 hours ago
Finance company collapses over the last year have hit the property development industry, but it is vehicle dealerships that will suffer in the future with ... more
Big-ticket items see cut in VATpublished about 20 hours ago
Shoppers are likely to get the benefit of lower VAT rates when buying big-ticket items, BBC research suggests.
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