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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 Consumer bankruptcy filings increase 9 percent; Tough times for coal-fired power plants; One third of the unemployed find new work; A $167 bonus for those earning $100,000; Where are the electric cars?
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feature Banks cut U.S. Treasury debt holdings; Foreclosures drop; Consumers remain wary of debt; Price of Volkswagen's new Passat sedan drops; Apple's rising value
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feature Airlines increase ticket prices; Bond issuers miss debt payments; Price of oil slips; Where are the young swingers?; Avatar breaks DVD records; Foreclosures: High, and still counting
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feature July gains for the stock indexes; State debt swells by 10.3 percent; Will Murdoch bid for the Rangers?; BP’s U.S. filling stations may rebrand; AT&T and Verizon target Visa and MasterCard
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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 Generation Y's rough road; Federal tax credit spurs new-home sales; DeBeers to cut diamond production; Sales up at Sears; Craigslist nets a few Gambinos
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feature High rates for credit cards; Early withdrawals at Fidelity; Good times for the Vice Fund; Ad sales up for cable-TV networks; A new option for coach passengers
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feature In Warren Buffett we trust; China faces shortage of factory workers; Burger King’s customized wrapper; Nine of 10 companies would rehire former employees; Sharp slowdown for shipyards
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feature Treasury’s 36% return; Loans from retirement accounts at an all-time high; Sales of pickup trucks up 14%; Earnings power: Wall Street vs. Main Street; The value of “vanity” mobile numbers
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feature Junk bonds make a comeback; Savvy trades by congressional aides; Time to give Diamond the go ahead?; Companies hire at snail's pace; Good news for the ad business
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feature Industrial production falls; Payroll disparity: Yankees vs. Rangers; GM’s workforce increases by 9 percent; America's largest landowner; Donations to charities drop
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feature To come for Fannie and Freddie: $389 billion; Number of millionaires rises; Jets nix offer from adultery-oriented website; No taxes for heirs of billionaire; Health-care costs in 2011
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feature Home builder Habitat for Humanity now in eighth place; GM's sales in China outstrip sales in U.S.; Target to roll out designer diapers; U.S. loses top spot as world's most competitive economy; Sales of bottled water fall
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