BAGHDAD — Asian men who have been living in warehouses near the Baghdad airport while awaiting promised jobs with a military subcontractor now are in line to be sent home, and they're still not sure how they'll be paid for their time in Iraq ...
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A new Brazilian restaurant opened in my town last month. The kind of place where the waiters pile slices of pig, lamb and other farm animals on your plate until you beg for mercy. I went there because I got a coupon in the mail--a typical a buy-one ...
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Atlanta-area real estate investors, like their counterparts around the country, say a new four-loan limit is keeping good buyers away from foreclosed properties — and could actually prolong the recession. The new policy, which limits to four the ...
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― CEO's from the big three automakers made another pitch for a financial rescue telling lawmakers that the economic future of millions of Americans hangs in the balance. Mike Hellgren reports thousands of Maryland workers and ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. Congressional analysts said one bailout plan under ...
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President George W Bush and first lady Laura Bush have bought a home among business leaders and prominent Republican donors in an affluent North Dallas neighbourhood, where they will live after the president leaves office in January. Laura Bush's ...
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. stopped advising American International Group Inc. on a global plan to sell more than a dozen units, because the job threatened to disqualify the bank from doing business with potential buyers for years ...
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