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  • Tech: Gadget News and Reviews
    Mar 30, 2012 — Washington Post
    Thanks. pegoraror: Yes, and have done so for several years now. If I purchase this, will my current MS Office 2003 run on it? pegoraror: Yes. Thanks. pegoraror: You should have no trouble meeting that price limit.
  • 'Health Freedom Act' passes Idaho Senate
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Spokesman-Review
    Elliot Werk, D-Boise, questioned spending as much as $100,000 on a court fight over federal health care reform legislation, saying that could pay salaries for three teachers. Plus, he said, "As Americans, what is our freedom worth? John Andreason, R-Boise, were the only Republicans to vote against the bill. Sen.
  • A new finger on the pulse of economy
    Mar 10, 2010 — Star Tribune
    Anthony Mar. 10, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Want to know which way the economy is headed? To sustain at least a 4 percent GDP number for the first quarter [on an annualized basis], the March PCI has to be ... over 1 percent growth. The index is built by analyzing Ceridian's electronic card payment data, which captures the location and volume of diesel fuel being purchased.
  • AEO will end upscale brand
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners in New Canaan, Conn. "Even Babe Ruth struck out a number of times during his career." Adrienne Tennant of FBR Capital Markets (NASDAQ:FBCM) and Co. of Arlington, Va., also was pleased. "Martin + Osa was just such a big drag on the company," she said. The brand was named for Martin and Osa Johnson of Kansas, who were early 20th century adventurers. Todd Slater of Lazard Capital Markets LLC in New York said the brand...
  • California global warming law may lead to job losses, report says
    Mar 10, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    The analyst's report came in response to a query from Sen. Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto), a critic of the law. The analysis, based on broad economic models, drew criticism from some academics, including Harvard economist Robert Stavins.
  • CERAWEEK 2010
    Mar 10, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    Daniel Goldwyn, the State Department's coordinator of international energy (OOTC:ILGL) affairs, served on a panel.
  • China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord
    Mar 10, 2010 — New York Times
    WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. Ramesh confirmed India’s action in an e-mail message. India sent a letter on Monday to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body responsible for international climate negotiations, stating its intent to join the Copenhagen Accord.
  • China, India give nod to Copenhagen climate change accord
    Mar 10, 2010 — Washington Post
    China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.The official messages to the U.N. climate change secretariat did little to ease the pessimism that a legal international agreement on global warming can be concluded this year.A one-sentence note from China's top climate change negotiator, Su Wei, authorized the addition of China to the list attached to the nonbinding accord brokered...
  • City moves to buy land near hospital
    Mar 10, 2010 — El Paso Times
    ...eminent domain laws to take the land. "The price the owner is giving us is so far up that it is ridiculous," City Manager Joyce Wilson said. "This is why we have eminent domain." City officials would not say how much the owner -- a Shawnee, Okla., corporation known as 5100 El Paso Drive LLC -- was asking for the lot. The El Paso Central Appraisal District lists its value at $85,747. Eminent domain is a legal recourse governmental agencies have to force the sale...
  • Court To Move Quickly On Pratt and Whitney's Appeal On Plant Closures
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Hartford Courant
    The company wanted to close the East Hartford unit this year.
  • Critics blast Metro's $2.6 billion bond plan
    Mar 10, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    In June 2009, Metro also issued $200 million in debt from the $640 million pool. The East End Line is being paid for entirely with Metro funds.
  • Draft on Payday Rules Loses a Provision
    Mar 10, 2010 — New York Times
    Corker, the new consumer agency could write rules for nonbank financial companies like payday lenders. Jones and other payday lenders started the Community Financial Services Association to lobby against regulation. In December, the House passed a regulatory overhaul that provided for a new consumer agency with power to write and enforce rules for banks and other financial institutions, like payday lenders.
  • Economic Scene: Wishing for a Health Care Plan That Cuts Costs
    Mar 10, 2010 — New York Times
    Hospitals that committed certain medical errors — harmful, costly errors — would face financial penalties. So I agree that health reform should do more to reduce spiraling medical costs. Mainly, the subsidies appear to benefit drug makers, hospitals and insurers.
  • EDITORIAL: Eye on the prize
    Mar 10, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
    Wilson and Metro Chairman David Wolff say poor job performance, including mismanagement of subordinates, led to an investigation and her termination. They released a report by the Metro employee advocacy officer calling for Higgins' firing more than a month before Kelley filed his open records request. The result will be a transit infrastructure to benefit Houston over the next century.
  • Few Californians benefiting from rescission settlements
    Mar 10, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    ...finding coverage through work."Ng said the department had no plans to evaluate the settlements on those terms because such an endeavor would be too costly and time-consuming.Department of Managed Health Care spokeswoman Lynne Randolph said that agency's efforts to stem illegal policy rescissions worked."The DMHC settlements were the first and strongest in the nation to halt health plan abuses," Randolph said. "As a result of DMHC actions, the number of rescissions...
  • Future role of natural gas discussed at Houston energy conference
    Mar 10, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    It is part of the long-term energy solution," said Mulva, whose Houston-based company has interests in the Barnett Shale of North Texas. There is now the potential for the world to develop "multiple centuries of supply" of gas, he said. Natural gas increasingly could be used in electric power generation as a much cleaner alternative to coal, Mulva said.
  • Global warming skepticism rising in the GOP
    Mar 10, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
    The shift by Rubio and Pawlenty as well as other prominent Republicans reflects the rising power of climate change skeptics in the GOP, where global warming is becoming a litmus test for conservatives. Charlie Crist, over Crist's support for emissions limits. Even 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain, who argued often with climate skeptics on the primary campaign trail, recently played along with a Fox News interviewer who mocked global warming.
  • HCC SouthShore accepts public input
    Mar 10, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
    ...by HCC to come up with revised growth plans for all five of its campuses, which now serve more than 50,000 students. During the next several months, the firm will "address physical plan and academic alternatives through 2015 and 2020," said Michael English, an urban planner for HCC. "Our charge is to get this by June for the SouthShore campus," he said, adding the firm will draft a master plan in March or April and submit it to HCC trustees by May. Based on growth data, the...
  • Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves
    Mar 10, 2010 — USA Today
    Health care costs will go even higher, making a tough economy worse. Stop this health care bill we can't afford to pay."The Chamber would not list the 17 states in the ad buy. He says Obama's bill doesn't do enough to drive down health care costs. "It's a missed opportunity," he says.Yahoo!
  • Lawsuits against Flower Mound, Haltom City challenge denials for gas pipelines
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    Flower Mound Town Council. "It will decide whether a municipality trumps a utility or vice versa." Both Flower Mound and Haltom City have been sued because they have failed to approve requests to run gas pipelines on municipal property. In Flower Mound, Mockingbird Pipeline wants to run 500 feet of pipe through a 30-foot pipeline easement behind a fire station. In Haltom City, Enterprise Texas Pipeline LLC wants to transport processed gas to market by running a pipeline...
  • Leaning toward light rail system
    Mar 10, 2010 — Tampa Tribune
    The sad part is all we have is roads. We barely have a functioning bus system. At some point we have to do something.
  • Miller Park payoff date pushed back at least 2 years
    Mar 10, 2010 — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Through 2009, the district has collected $205.3 million in sales taxes. The dire sales-tax information at Miller Park has not occurred in a vacuum. In Milwaukee County, the 0.5% county sales tax was down $8.3 million last year.
  • Nevada's jobless rate remains at 13 percent
    Mar 10, 2010 — Las Vegas Review-Journal
    Blacks in Nevada faced a jobless average of 18.2 percent in 2009, while Hispanics here saw unemployment average 17 percent in the year. Joblessness among white Nevadans averaged 11.4 percent in 2009. The employment department also substantially boosted earlier job-loss estimates. Retail employment fell by 4,600 jobs from December to January, as stores eliminated temporary holiday positions.
  • NRG Energy to get up to $154M from government to install carbon dioxide capture system
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Dallas Morning News
    NRG Energy (NYSE:NRG) Inc. won up to $154 million in funding from the Department of Energy to install a system to capture carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant. The building plans fit with NRG's view that carbon dioxide emissions will eventually be regulated. And the award comes as NRG has ramped up its lobbying presence in Washington since signing onto a campaign to pass comprehensive climate-change legislation. NRG plans to install the equipment at its WA Parish plant,...
  • Tax on bonuses gets shunted aside
    Mar 10, 2010 — The Virginian-Pilot
    Bill Bartel Mar. 10, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- U.S. Sen.
  • A fine year for funds
    Mar 9, 2010 — The Boston Globe
    That's a rally.It's been a great year to be a mutual fund manager. Mix those with growth, value, and blended investment styles, and you come up with nine fund categories.Fidelity funds earned Boston's best results in five of the categories. Putnam Investments funds were tops in two categories, and MFS Investment Management came out on top in one.
  • Activists picket at health insurance conference
    Mar 9, 2010 — CNN
    Howard Dean, a prominent backer of reform legislation. The protest came one day after President Obama tore into health insurance companies for recent rate increases. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has asked to address the insurance conference this week, Gibbs noted.
  • American executive says market will dictate wages, benefits
    Mar 9, 2010 — Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    Each of those is in various stages but each of those are in mediation which is normal in the labor negotiation process. If you look back at the history of labor agreements in the industry, it takes two to three years to get a contract.
  • Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's
    Mar 9, 2010 — Associated Press Online
    By TOM RAUMWASHINGTON, Mar. 9, 2010 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) -- Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help.
  • AP Interview: Silva Says Iran Sanctions Dangerous
    Mar 9, 2010 — New York Times
    President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an interview with The Associated Press that sanctions would likely push Iran further from the bargaining table. Silva said he will try to convince Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to restart negotiations to ease concerns about the nuclear program. Silva also insisted that his hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff, is ready to run Brazil even if she has never run for office.
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