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Saints QB Brees is AP Offensive Player of Year
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Laura Bush unveils George W. Bush state china
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Bush headed to Midland, Texas, after presidency
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama hails extraordinary gathering
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama has lunch with 4 presidents
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama names special watchdog for federal spending
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apples Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for February 2007:
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Bomber in Bagdhad market kills 128
A truck carrying a ton of explosives killed at least 128 people and hurt 343 more when its driver detonated it in a packed Baghdad market on Saturday, authorities said. The blast destroyed stores and automobiles in Sedriya, a mixed neighborhood of Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds...
CNN - February 3, 2007
FEMA offers help to Florida
Federal officials are sending water, food, ice and generators to tornado-hit parts of Florida Saturday. President Bush said there was a "major disater," freeing up federal funds to help victims of Friday's deadly storms...
CNN - February 3, 2007
Bush Meets With Democrats on Their Turf
President Bush told House Democrats that he did not question the patriotism of those who disagreed with his Iraq strategy...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Far Away, Super Bowl?s Losers Will Be Champs
After the Super Bowl ends, shirts and caps made for the losing team will be donated to a developing nation...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Bush?s Medicare Budget Would Raise Premiums
The proposal is expected to raise $10 billion over the next five years in an effort to eliminate the deficit by 2012...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Sunni-Shiite Split in U.S. Is Widened by Iraq?s Shadow
Sectarian tensions have been blamed for vandalism and student confrontations in American Muslim communities...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
New McCain Team Made Attack Ads He Once Faulted
Senator John McCain?s choice of advisers indicates that he intends to run a far tougher presidential campaign than the one he ran in the 2000 primary...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Device Breaks Up in Pipeline, and Search Is on for Lost Piece
A missing piece of the device used to clean the walls of the 800-mile Alaska pipeline could damage sensitive equipment...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Correction: Country Index Report (January 28, 2007)
The Country Indexes table on the DataBank page last Sunday carried incorrect data from FTSE International for the performance of foreign stock markets...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Market Week: That?s Great, but How?s Productivity?
As the Federal Reserve warns about the risk of inflation, a report this Wednesday on fourth-quarter productivity could carry considerable weight...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
DataBank: Investors Respond to Strong Economic Reports
The stock market surged last week, propelled by powerful corporate earnings and by upbeat economic reports...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
The Count: Beer? Chips? Of Course. A Nation Is Super-Ready.
Tortilla chip sales jumped $10.2 million a week, on average, in the two-week Super Bowl period last year...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Suits: A Motivated Seller in the Motor City
The former home of William Clay Ford Jr., in Ann Arbor, Mich., is now on the market for $3.95 million...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
The Goods: Bug? Robot? Cyborg?
For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Economic View: Revisiting a Minimum-Wage Axiom
Mandating an increase in the federal minimum wage is likely to reduce demand for the services of those at the bottom of the economic heap...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: Reaping the Tax Benefits From Rental Property
More deductions and tax-related strategies are available for rental properties than for just about any other type of investment...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Strategies: To the (Very) Patient May Go the Spoils
Has the famous Value Line stock-ranking system lost its touch?...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Career Couch: The Job Transfer: Look Before You Leap
If you can?t see a benefit in moving to a new office, it may be time to move to a new employer...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
The Boss: Embracing the World
?There are usually precedents that you may not be noticing that are influencing you when you make changes in your life.?...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: The C.E.O.?s Parachute Cost What?
Directors are waking up to the full cost, tax included, of executive exit packages...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
National Perspectives: The Central Park of Southern California
A symbiosis of upscale housing development and open space in Irvine...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Investing: A Wilder Wager on Energy: Oil Field Services
While energy stocks have been going gangbusters, many of the companies that sell equipment and services to the major oil producers haven?t fared nearly so well...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Home Front: From the Hope Program, a Path to a Fresh Start
A ?lifetime follow-up? program of employment services...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
The Color of Cola
How Pepsi helped open corporate doors to African-Americans...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Off The Shelf: Get Ahead or, if You Must, Bounce Back
The problem with taking the path of most resistance is multilayered: It is difficult and it can keep you from succeeding at your true calling...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Playing That Mogul Music
At a time when D.J.?s are as well known as the artists they spin, is it any surprise that their managers are enjoying their own kind of celebrity?...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Spending: In Elder Care, Signing on Becomes a Way to Drop By
With the number of older Americans growing rapidly, products and services to help adult children care for their parents are on the rise...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Novelties: These Backseat Drivers Are Moving Up Front
How?s your driving? Two electronic backseat drivers were recently updated to keep even closer tabs on the behavior of both engine and driver...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Media Frenzy: Beyond the X?s and O?s, a Lesson in How to Be Big
For starters, protect the product by limiting its exposure...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Digital Domain: Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers
Sending Wi-Fi signals from the inside out, for better service...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Thinks Big About the Little Guy
A boss tackles problems of the working poor while reducing turnover and increasing profits...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Tax Evasion Ruling Against Lawyer Is Upheld
The federal tax court has ruled in favor of the Internal Revenue Service in a 14-year-old evasion case involving a now-dead lawyer...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
The Netherlands, the New Tax Shelter Hot Spot
Forget the Cayman Islands. The new hot spot for tax shelters is the Netherlands, which has drawn assets from the Rolling Stones, U2 and Sun Microsystems...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Huge Baghdad truck bomb kills 121
A massive truck bomb killed at least 121 people and hurt 373 more when its driver detonated it in a packed Baghdad market on Saturday, police said. The blast destroyed stores and automobiles in Sedriya, a mixed neighborhood of Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds...
CNN - February 3, 2007
Storm a real nightmare for Florida retirees
A central Florida retirement community that describes itself on its Web site as a place "to enjoy life as you've always dreamed" is now a nightmare come true...
CNN - February 3, 2007
Suicide truck bomb kills scores in Baghdad market
More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded after a suicide truck driver detonated his cargo in a crowded market in Baghdad on Saturday, police said...
CNN - February 3, 2007
Bush tells Democrats he welcomes Iraq debate
President Bush visited the Democrats' retreat Saturday for the first time since 2001 and told them he believed in their patriotism, whatever the disagreements over Iraq. "I look forward to working with you," he said. "I know you've probably heard that and doubt whether it's true. It's true."...
CNN - February 3, 2007
Chile hotel fire kills tourists
A fire at a hotel in the southern Chilean town of Punta Arenas kills 10 foreign tourists, officials say...
BBC News - February 3, 2007
Greater Scrutiny on Colleges and Ties to Lenders
The inquiry by the New York attorney general shows a focus on the relationships between loan companies and colleges...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Titillating or Not, Washington Gossip Blossoms
Never in memory has the political world been so awash in items about every burp and wart of our nation?s leaders...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Among Hispanics, N.F.L. Mania Hits Cultural Wall
The N.F.L. might be more popular in Mexico than it is among Spanish-speaking people in the United States...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Push to Resolve Fading Killings of Rights Era
The F.B.I. recently compiled a list of 51 victims of unsolved civil rights crimes from the 1950s and ?60s...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Twisters Hit Central Florida, Killing at Least 19
Thunderstorms and tornadoes devastated parts of Central Florida before dawn Friday, flattening hundreds of homes...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Number of People Stopped by Police Soars in New York
New data shows that police officers forcibly stopped 508,540 individuals last year, and in many cases searched them for illegal weapons...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
3 Weigh Joint Bid for British Grocery Chain
Three private equity firms announced they were considering a bid for J Sainsbury, Britain?s third-largest supermarket group...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Lone Star Gets Big Dividend in Korea Deal
Lone Star Funds will recoup almost a third of its original investment in a move that drew divided reaction...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Ex-Secretary at Coke Guilty of Trade-Secrets Theft
A federal jury convicted a former Coca-Cola secretary of conspiring to steal trade secrets in an effort to sell them to Pepsi...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Ex-Duracell Worker Stole Trade Secrets
Prosecutors said Edward R. Grande copied and downloaded computer research last year about Duracell?s AA batteries...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Chevron Sets Yearly Record, but Profit Fell in 4th Quarter
Fourth-quarter profit fell by 9 percent as energy prices declined, but the company still ended up with its third consecutive year of record earnings...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Gannett?s Profit Rises in Quarter, Helped by Political Ads at TV Stations
Fourth-quarter earnings rose 3 percent as record levels of political advertising on its broadcast outlets helped offset higher newspaper costs...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
What?s Offline: Victims of Success
Marshall Goldsmith, an executive coach, argues that your past success could be holding you back...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Five Days: Good News on Economy, Except for a Dell Executive
The economy expanded faster than expected in the last quarter of 2006 and remains strong...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Jobs Report Brings a Tepid End to a Strong Week
The market absorbed a weaker-than-expected employment report that curbed investors? bullish sentiment after three days of gains...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Off the Charts: When the ?Real? Numbers Are Rosy, but the Others Are Less So
The nominal numbers reported about the economy are in some ways more real than the real ones...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Market Values: It?s Calm. Look Out for a Storm.
The ups and downs in the stock market are among the mildest experienced for more than a century, and that is provoking anxiety in some investment advisers...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
What?s Online: Sites for the Socially Conscious
A new site, Do The Right Thing, allows users to make submissions criticizing industries and companies, which are then voted on by readers...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Vornado Under Pressure to Sweeten Its Bid for Office Landlord
Vornado Realty Trust is being pressured to sweeten its counteroffer and pay more of it in cash and less in stock...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Assets Shifted by Family That Controls Times Co.
The Ochs-Sulzberger family said it was withdrawing most of its personal assets, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, from Morgan Stanley...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Slower Job Growth, at Least for Now
The slowdown may signal that the economy is shifting down a notch from its unexpectedly robust pace of growth at the end of last year...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
U.S. Trade Effort on China Suffers 2 More Setbacks
The setbacks included the resignation of a top official and an announcement that talks on a critical trade dispute had failed to resolve differences...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Saturday Interview: Bankruptcy. Hostile Bid. What Next?
Gerald Grinstein, head of Delta, discussed the recent takeover battle and Delta?s future...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Shortcuts: Envy, Anxiety, Secrecy, Taboos: The Subject Must Be Money
Many consumers are propping up their elaborate lifestyles with hidden debt. It?s something no one likes to talk about...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Expenses Cited for End of Nissan?s 6-Year Run of Record Profit
Nissan said it expected full-year earnings for 2006 to fall for the first time since Carlos Ghosn took charge in 1999...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Your Money: Consumers Have Allies on the Web
Consumer advocacy takes on renewed power as it moves into a new form, the blog...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: From Raider to Activist, but Still Icahn
At the age of 70, Carl C. Icahn has gone from being a corporate raider to a ?shareholder activist.?...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
2nd Acts in the Executive Suite
Second-act chief executives bring deep knowledge of their industries and their companies, but may be reluctant to make radical changes...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Viacom Tells YouTube: Hands Off
YouTube says it will comply with Viacom?s request that it remove more than 100,000 clips from the Web...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Cellphone Envy Lays Motorola Low
Motorola is learning a cruel new lesson that a phone?s value reflects not so much what it can do, but whether it is the envy of friends...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
Silicon Valley?s High-Tech Hunt for Colleague
Silicon Valley?s best and brightest organized a concerted, high-tech effort to find a missing Microsoft researcher...
New York Times - February 3, 2007
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