Some policy makers caution that the central bank’s main tool to keep the economy from sliding into recession may be ill-suited to the problem it faces.
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Hollywood had one of its best summers in recent history, but to hear many studio executives talk, the movie business is closer to the edge of a cliff than ever.
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Network executives as well as the program’s producer continued to express confidence that the reality show would go on as planned.
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Insurance companies may have paid out $11 billion to Louisianians since Hurricane Katrina, but they are a new villain in people’s tales of recovery.
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CEO forecast the lender would 'shine' as the industry changed. Later, he said the firm knew the bubble would burst.
A year ago, Countrywide Financial Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Angelo R. Mozilo was boasting that the looming shakeout in home prices and hike in mortgage interest rates would usher in a period of remarkable prosperity for his company.
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Every time John Remore steps up to his workstation to form a piece of sheet metal, he brings an intangible asset to the job: 42 years of experience, dating to lessons from his father.
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Will this summer s reality bombs inspire more scripted fare?
AT a certain point this summer, it may have looked as if your TV had been kidnapped by cruddy reality shows.
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Christa Phillips plays like a girl. And she's perfectly OK with that.
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Action on rates would lower deposit yields. Lock in long-term CDs now, experts advise.
People with money in the bank may soon help foot the bill to stabilize Wall Street.
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Greater use of superstrengthened plastics in the 787 raises concerns about detecting damage -- now done using a quarter -- but company says visual inspections will be enough
A quarter. That's what airline mechanics have used for decades to find cracks and flaws in carbon composite parts on commercial airliners. The mechanics tap the surface with the quarter and listen. A "thunk" means trapped air or moisture could be weakening the structure.
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Technology has changed quite a bit since I last played fantasy sports a decade ago.
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For a while now, I've been expecting a "staging" backlash. I just didn't expect it to take this form.
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Jim Burzynski has a bright future, but it has cost him.
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Is the long wait coming to an end for borrowers who would like to see interest rates go down?
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BT has become the first broadband supplier in the UK to pass the four million customer mark, as the telecoms company continues to benefit from the rapid take-up of high-speed internet across the UK.
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While the UK's financial services sector is suffering from the continuing crisis in credit markets, when it comes to the old-fashioned business of making things, Britain's manufacturers are continuing to enjoy healthy growth.
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The Federal Reserve heard a plea for a full percentage point cut in US interest rates in order to forestall a recession, as central bankers debated the fall-out from the housing market slowdown.
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When should you protect the innocent even though you may, in the process, let off the guilty? A pacifist would presumably say "always" because war, by its very nature, leads to the slaughter of innocents (or, in our world of media spin, gives rise to "collateral damage"). Those in favour of zero tolerance for all forms of crime might have to say "never" because no judicial system is ever going to weed out those who truly are guilty from those who are wrongfully accused. And then, to make things more complicated, there are those occasions when saving the life of one innocent person requires the loss of another (think human shields or life-threatening child-birth).
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The near three-year long battle for control of the London Stock Exchange saw yet another unexpected twist this weekend, as it emerged that the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) had entered the bidding for Nasdaq's 31 per cent stake in the company. The QIA, which has beenpursuing the supermarket chain Sainsbury's, is believed to have offered upwards of £14 a share for the stake, which would value it at close to £1bn, and would value the LSE as a whole at more than £3bn.
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American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year, according to a U.N. report released Monday.
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North Side Jewel clerk makes most of skills and his winning smile
Desmond Wallace slides a jar of pickles into a brown paper bag, slips the package into a plastic bag and the bag into a grocery cart with a motion as smooth and practiced as a basketball pro going for a layup.
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Nielsen scrapping separate survey
After a decade of being shunted to the sidelines, Spanish-language media outlets have now joined the big leagues of TV research.
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Niche retailers find benefits in domestic manufacturing
Trying to please both mothers and daughters with a similar fashion can be a tall order.
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High schooler who launched first computer virus in 1982 still remembered 25 years later
What began as a 9th-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person to let loose a personal computer virus.
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Companies expected to see active trading in Tuesday's session are Donaldson Co., Finisar Corp., Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson.
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Investors closely watching employment, housing as U.S. stocks end one of most volatile months in years and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke acknowledges mortgage woes.
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The managers of the Canada Pension Plan want to buy a 'significant minority stake' in New Zealand's largest airport.
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It still remains unclear whether the United Automobile Workers will agree to the health care overhaul carmakers are seeking.
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More than a decade after the drive began to convert electricity from a regulated industry into a competitive one, many states are rolling back their initiatives.
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Seven banks try to entice investors to buy $24 billion in loans and bonds to pay for the sale of the First Data Corporation to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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As the 2008 presidential campaign picks up speed, Indian outsourcing companies have returned to Washington as veritable insiders, slicker and better connected than ever.
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Driven by a roaring world economy, among other things, global milk prices have doubled over the last two years.
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The bubble hasn't burst yet for popular cable programs, but market woes spur some shifts in focus.
No one has been more swept up in the euphoria of the overheated housing market of the last few years than cable television networks.
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Historically the worst month for stocks, September brings a new set of worries this year.
Even in the best of times, Wall Street has come to fear September and October.
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