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feature Time for a raise?; Residential mortgage rates top 5 percent; Analysts predict uptick in hiring; Complaints against airlines up 25 percent; A tough sell for hybrids; Farming causes more deaths than firefighting
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feature AIG repays last of $85 billion loan; Fewer Americans own homes; Credit-card interest rates peak; Consumers hoard the incandescent; Lenders return to commerical property
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feature Apple's profits nearly double; France repeals ban on absinthe; Solid prospects for out-of-home advertising; A degradable golf ball for seagoing duffers; Venture capital commitments soar
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feature Searching for trickle-down profits; China posts quarterly trade deficit; Consumers borrow to finance cars; Life expectancy and age of retirement; Money in hedge funds nears all-time high; Bing makes headway over Google
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feature A female CEO for IBM?; Perkins & Marie Callender’s declares bankruptcy; VF Corp. buys Timberland; Wal-Mart's online grocery store; The Silk Road's path to prison; J.C. Penney hires Apple executive
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feature Unemployment benefits in Hawaii; Rising rents in London; Kraft passes along higher costs; Mortgage debt falls; Iraq to miss oil production goals
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feature Multinationals increase overseas hiring; 299 CEOS vs. 102,325 workers; Drugmakers to lose patents in 2011; Student-loan debt surpasses credit card debt; U.S. places third in renewable energy investing; Schwab scraps employee-of-the-month awards
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feature Strong market for subprime bonds; Indian companies abuse visa program; Transocean executives receive bonus for safety record; A good year for CEO paychecks
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feature Consumers continue to cut debt; February a good month for retailers; Sony closes New Jersey CD plant; Investors celebrate bull market; Wealthy in name, poor in spirit
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feature Production of $1 coins cut; Russia joins the World Trade Organization; Saab files for bankruptcy; Cost of global disasters hits a record; Greece's changing rate of suicide; CEO pay rises
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feature Economic devastation among the laid-off; Young and jobless in Europe; In the U.S., refined-fuel exports exceed imports; Minnesota expects a surplus; Bright spots in the job market
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feature Sales of digital music surpass album sales; The business savvy of immigrants; The Kate Middleton Effect; China's luxury car market; A poor market for architecture majors
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feature Mario Monti targets tax evasion; Ticketmaster settles lawsuit over fees; Putting a price on “The 12 Days of Christmas”; China takes a bite out of iPad
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feature No-growth small businesses; Swift sales for Taylor's new album; Predicting doctors' costs; Airlines face shortfall in qualified pilots; Will Japan slip into recession?
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