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feature Where CEOs gain at shareholders' expense; Job market a boon for graduate schools; Kodachrome retires; Investors bet on merger surge; No vacation for 51 percent of business owners
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feature Carry-on baggage becomes a source of revenue; IRS downsizes audits of large corporations; Gas prices rise 4 cents a gallon; U.S. employees shoulder greater workloads; Rising tobacco taxes trigger cigarette smuggling
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feature Default rate on corporate debt falls; Business travel is up; Gold reaches a record high; Hunting industry reaps billions; Average credit card debt drops
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feature Rise in health-care premiums outstrips rise in pay; Airfares increase in second quarter; Where the jobs are: nursing; Women leave financial services field; Back-to-school sales create optimism
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feature FDIC expects more bank failures; U.S. sees widest income gap since 1967; Mobile phones: Not made in the USA; Home sales: Down in July, up in August; For many millionaires, work is recreation
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feature The price of gasoline last week hit another, inflation-adjusted high, surging 7 cents to $3.26 for a gallon of self-serve regular. . .
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feature Foreign investors are losing their appetite for U.S. bonds. Foreigners represented only 5.8 percent of bidders at last week’s auction of 10-year Treasury notes, down from. . .
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feature Steepest earnings decline in S & P's 500 since 1936; Gap between U.S. and foreign CEO pay narrows; Drop in casino earnings first in a decade; Accounting profession adds 3,000 jobs a month; Selling dirt from old Yankee Stadium
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feature Bing captures 12.9% of market; OPEC cuts oil exploration and production; Metal prices soar; GM to end 62-year presence in Delaware; Airlines improve flight arrival times
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feature Health-care industry lobbies Congress over reform; Tonight Show sheds older viewers; Manhattan housing prices fall nearly 20 percent; 52 banks have failed since January; Wall Street to trade California IOUs
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feature Bad timing by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.; Credit Crunch bypasses midsize American cities; All is well at Apple’s online App Store; Topps to release cards on hoaxes and hoodwinks; Bad timing by companies in the S&P 500&
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feature CEOs face second pay decline since 1989; Sallie Mae to close overseas operations; Lower opening-day payroll for baseball teams; GM to auction 200 vintage cars; Some of the richest taxpayers pay less than 10%
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feature Fiscal 2009 deficit at $957 billion, and rising; 23 banks seized by FDIC since January; Mars Inc. to tap new cocoa suppliers; New York law firm pays lawyers to take a year off; Will gas prices keep rising?
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feature Goldman Sachs’ investors show irritation; Savings rate rises, interest rates fall; Toys R Us starts “Black Friday” on Thanksgiving; From 1 flight per week to 642 flights per week; Mary Kay increases sales in China
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