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Even as BP appears poised to permanently kill its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, shares of the company have hit a wall as investors turn their attention to the massive legal costs that lie ahead for the energy giant.
BP has pledged to set aside $20 billion to compensate businesses and individuals hurt […]
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Stocks slid Thursday, although they finished off their session lows, as investors weighed cautious comments from a regional Federal Reserve president about the health of the economy and a mix of quarterly profit reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 30 points, or 0.3%, the S&P 500 (SPX) index dipped 4 points or 0.4% […]
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For deep-pocketed plutocrats purchasing trophy homes, times are good. There is a glut of mega-mansions on the market — at deep discounts.
On Realtor.com alone there are currently 6,610 listings of houses with interiors larger than 10,000 square feet.
"Buyers are not used to having this amount of inventory," said Russ Filice, an agent […]
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The Obama administration is backing a plan to nearly double the space available on the airwaves for wireless high-speed Internet traffic to keep up with ever-growing demand for video and other cutting-edge applications on laptops and mobile devices.
President Barack Obama on Monday committed the federal government to freeing up an additional 500 megahertz […]
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A new report card on the travel industry finds customer satisfaction improved across five sectors, but warns they may be short-lived, particularly for airlines.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, released by the University of Michigan Tuesday, showed airlines, restaurants, hotels, fast food and express delivery services all grew in customer satisfaction. Airline customers were 3 percent […]
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Area dinosaur hunters are out of luck after the last of St. Louis’ green apatosauruses headed west this month.
The men looking for the creatures — and men, they invariably seem to be — aren’t paleontologists. They’re collectors of gas station memorabilia searching for their Holy Grail — fiberglass statues of the Sinclair Oil […]
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The San Antonio City Clerk’s Office has been approved to serve as an official U.S. Department of State Passport Acceptance Facility, making it the only municipality in Bexar County to hold this designation.
Currently, the U.S. Postal Service processes Passports for the State Department at a number of San Antonio area post offices. City Clerk Leticia […]
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Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne must have gotten tired of all those questions about Chrysler’s empty product pipeline.
Because in a conference call with analysts and the media this week, he laid out Chrysler’s launch schedule for the rest of 2010 and dropped some hints about 2011.
If the pipeline isn’t exactly gushing, it is pumping a […]
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The 2010 Guide to Western Pennsylvania Schools features high school students from local schools throughout the region. Click on any of the photos to bring up a slideshow.
A complete list of 11th grade rankings of southwestern Pennsylvania schools is also available on the School Guide homepage.
For more, see:
Upper St bad credit pay day loans. Clair […]
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American Railcar Industries saw its fourth-quarter profit rise 39 percent but booked less than half the revenue it saw in the prior year’s quarter as railcar shipments fell.
For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company reported net earnings of $10.5 million, up from nearly $7.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. American Railcar said […]
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