The U.S. effectively drafted them to fight in World War II. They've been lobbying Congress for benefits for 17 years. Now they're in their 80s.
WASHINGTON — They are sometimes called the invisible veterans -- soldiers who defied death fighting for the United States, only to be denied U.S. benefits at war's end.
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The Texas firm's case is a lesson in how far a company can go to force payment of a bill.
The voice-mail message was angry and unrelenting.
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O il prices were near record levels last week, our friends at OPEC were counting their cash and La Cañada resident Alex Hartunian was shopping for a Prius.
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'Another down day on Wall Street'; Dow loses 550 points for week
Wall Street took it on the chin for a third consecutive session Friday, closing out a dismal week with another big sell-off fueled by investor jitters over the credit-related damage that is still spreading through the financial sector.
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Retailers expected to add fewer workers
Odds are greater this year that the person who rings up your holiday purchases will be a year-round worker rather than someone hired for the season.
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No deal yet; organic market preferred
Macy's Inc. is closer to bringing a grocery store to the basement of its State Street flagship, a move aimed at attracting the Loop's growing residential population, Frank Guzzetta, Chairman of Macy's North, said Friday.
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Baxter gets OK to sell MRSA-blocking device; agency speeds reviews
As the bacterium MRSA becomes more widespread, the federal government and the drug and medical-device industries are recognizing the need to speed up the fight to combat superbugs, in what could be a multibillion-dollar market for tests, products and pharmaceuticals.
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There has been more attention paid to so-called smart phones this year than ever before. Largely, that's because of Apple's noted introduction of the iPhone and Google's recent news that it is developing a suite of open-source software tools to operate smart devices, used for e-mailing and surfing the Web.
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With the price of a barrel of oil expected to breach the $100 barrier in the coming weeks, experts have warned that the era of cheap oil is now dead.
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Lewis Hamilton, the Formula One sensation, is close to signing a clutch of endorsement deals that will put him on track to become the world's first $1bn sportsman.
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The embattled UK banking sector is likely to be dealt another blow this week when HSBC reveals more writedowns from its American sub-prime business.
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The cuts endorsed by the BBC's controversial new governing body, the BBC Trust, have started to bite. On Monday management briefed unions on planned cuts in news coverage, intensifying fears about the future of flagship shows including BBC 1's one and six o'clock bulletins.
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As far as some investors are concerned, the icing has gone from the top of J Sainsbury's cake. When the British food retailer announces its half-yearly results this week, a predicted rise of more than 20 per cent in pre-tax profits will be overshadowed by the fall in the share price of the company, which last week became the latest casualty of the US credit crisis.
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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan is planning a $1.8 billion US expansion of its potash operation in Rocanville
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DundeeWealth Inc. reported a $121.4-million loss for the third quarter after taking a $133-million charge on the sale of its Dundee Bank subsidiary to Scotiabank in September.
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There will be no special assistance for Ontario manufacturers struggling to cope with the high Canadian dollar, the senior deputy governor at the Bank of Canada says.
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Phishers targeted Canada's leading financial institutions on Wednesday, a federal financial regulator says.
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Shares of yoga-inspired apparel maker Lululemon Athletica Inc. rebounded from an early dip prompted by a newspaper report disputing company claims about the benefits of clothing it says contains seaweed.
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John A. Thain, a former co-president of Goldman Sachs, revitalized the stock exchange and took it public.
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For decades, Goldman Sachs has churned out a golden list of corporate executives and statesmen, wealthy financiers and nonprofit managers.
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Frito-Lay is redesigning a potato-chip factory aiming to reduce the energy it consumes and waste it creates.
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A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers.
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After a letter from a hedge fund stoked rumors that it was in merger talks with UAL, Delta Air Lines denied that any such discussions were taking place.
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The guild doesn't want to undermine striking writers by starting negotiations with studios.
As film and TV writers are walking the picket line, the directors who bring their scripts to life are walking their own fine line.
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A consumer group says a new California law allowing companies to advertise rates differently at airports enabled the problem.
In December 2006, the average daily rate for a mid-size rental car booked via the Internet at Los Angeles International Airport was about $60. A month later, the rate had climbed to $79, according to a study by a consumer group.
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The agency backs a record number of loans despite cuts in staff.
Business is booming at the Los Angeles office of the Small Business Administration, which operates loan guarantee, contracting support and small-business skill-building programs for the 12 million residents of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
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For dry cleaners, caterers and other merchants dependent on Hollywood, when the shooting stops, so does the cash flow.
For years, Television & Cinema Wardrobe Cleaners has lived by its motto: "We do nothing but showbiz!"
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The $4.85-billion settlement offered last week by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. to patients stricken by heart attacks and strokes after taking the company's painkiller Vioxx could mean the end to one of the most unpleasant and costliest chapters in the pharmaceutical industry's history.
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Hedge fund sets off stock surge by urging carriers to merge
A major shareholder of both United Airlines and Delta Air Lines wants the two carriers to merge, an idea that in principle is appealing to both sides and appears to have led to some informal talks, although both sides deny that a deal is being negotiated.
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Fuel prices in the Chicago area have climbed higher over the past month -- tracking the surge in the price refiners pay for oil -- and in Cook County the price of unleaded regular gas has surged 29 cents to $3.24, according to AAA Chicago.
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Deere & Co. said stockholders cleared the way for a planned 2-for-one stock split by approving at a special meeting this morning a measure that doubles, to 1.2 billion, the number of common shares the Moline farm-equipment maker is authorized to have outstanding.
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Homeowners across the U.S. are increasingly having trouble making their mortgage payments on time, but borrowers in metro areas of California, Florida and other once-booming housing markets are accounting for the biggest spikes in foreclosure filings, according to a mortgage research company.
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Delta, the airline based in Atlanta, Georgia, that emerged from bankruptcy earlier this year, said it was actively pursuing a merger deal with a rival in the congested American airline industry.
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HSBC has warned that markets were underestimating the effects of the credit crunch on the wider economy as the bank wrote down $3.4bn (£1.7bn) at its US consumer finance business for the third quarter.
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The Bank of England did not use the trendy new word "slowflation" in its Inflation Report yesterday, but it is clearly signalling a combination of slower growth, higher inflation and lower interest rates for the UK next year ? "not an outcome we've seen very often" in the words of the Bank's Governor, Mervyn King. Indeed, the Bank already believes that "GDP growth may have begun to slow in the fourth quarter", with what Mr King termed a "dichotomy" between the housing and financial sectors, hit by the credit squeeze, and the rest of the economy.
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