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U.S. Workforce Shrinks For 6th Straight Month
Employers cut 62,000 jobs in June, marking the sixth consecutive month that the nation has shed jobs, according to a government report released yesterday, deepening concern that the struggling U.S. economy could turn worse before it gets better.
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Gay-Marriage Opponents To Boycott McDonald's
A group that opposes same-sex marriage has called for a boycott of McDonald's, saying the fast-food giant has refused "to stay neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality."
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YouTube Ordered To Release User Data
A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers.
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Gandhi Works on Image Control
Natwar M. Gandhi calls himself an apolitical bean counter, but the D.C. government's chief financial officer begins his daily routine with a long-standing Washington rite: the power breakfast.
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How Lehman Brothers Veered Off Course
If you want to see what's wrong with Lehman Brothers, the investment bank with a storied name but a troubled present, you need to leave the canyons of Wall Street and head to the flatlands of exurban Bakersfield, Calif., some 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles. That's where you find McAllister...
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Southwest, FAA Relationship Cited in Probe
A cozy relationship between the Federal Aviation Administration and Southwest Airlines led to safety lapses last year that put thousands of passengers at risk, according to a government report released yesterday.
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Bush Officials Condoned Regional Iraqi Oil Deal
Bush administration officials told Hunt Oil last summer that they did not object to its efforts to reach an oil deal with the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, even while the State Department was publicly expressing concern that such contracts could undermine a national Iraqi petroleu...
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Fugitive Fund Manager Turns Himself In
A hedge-fund manager who faked his own suicide and went on the run after being convicted of defrauding investors of millions of dollars turned himself in yesterday at a police station in Massachusetts.
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With $100 Million Influx, MiddleBrook CEO Is Out
Edward M. Rudnic, MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals's chief executive, plans to leave the company he founded in exchange for an outside investment of $100 million.
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