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The New Poor Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs (21 February 01:39) |
| The social safety net was built for short-term gaps between jobs, but work may be scarce for years, even as the American economy shows signs of a rebound. |
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Digital Domain The Birth of Cheap Communication and Junk Mail (21 February 01:06) |
| Letter writers in the 19th century, like e-mail correspondents today, preferred short, quick responses, and were bedeviled by commercial come-ons. |
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Will Airlines and Passengers Call a Truce (21 February 12:56) |
| Once passengers shell out hundreds of dollars for a ticket, the sales pitches begin: Checking a bag? Need a pillow? How about some trail mix? |
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Fundamentally Early in the Year and Already Surprised (21 February 10:00) |
| Many people thought that the credit crisis was subsiding. Then came Greece’s debt problems. |
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The Count Ski Resorts Thrive Despite Recession Pain (21 February 08:46) |
| Ski resorts in the United States have shown steady increases in revenue over the last five years. |
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Xeroxs New Chief Tries to Redefine Its Culture (21 February 08:44) |
| Ursula Burns, the new C.E.O. of Xerox, wants its 130,000 employees to take more initiative and to become more fearless and frank with one another. |
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Off the Shelf In Practice Stock Formulas Werent Perfect (21 February 04:37) |
| Advanced mathematics shaped trades that bolstered profits on Wall Street, a new book says, but then the bottom fell out. |
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Economic View A Small Price for a Large Benefit (21 February 04:36) |
| The cost of preventing catastrophic climate change would be astonishingly small, Robert H. Frank says. |
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Canadian TV Switch Displeases Americans (21 February 04:08) |
| Viewers in the northern United States accustomed to being able to watch Canada’s CBC during the Olympics received an unhappy surprise this year. |
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Steelworkers Say Reactors Will Create Overseas Jobs (20 February 03:35) |
| The Obama administration says building a nuclear plant in Georgia would create jobs, but steelworkers said the parts would come from foreign manufacturers. |
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Japan Plans to Ignore Any Ban on Bluefin Tuna (20 February 01:36) |
| Japan will not join in any agreement to ban the international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna under the United Nations treaty on endangered species, its fisheries officials said. |
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In Hungary Potential Lessons for Greece (20 February 12:22) |
| The experience of Hungary suggests just why the euro retains its allure to so many of the emerging countries of Europe. |
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News Analysis Working Without a Standard Playbook the Fed Plans Its Moves on Rates (20 February 11:36) |
| The Fed faces a complex set of forces as it decides how and when to reverse the aggressive steps taken to contain the financial crisis and the ensuing damage to the economy. |
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Investor to Step Down From Times Co Board (20 February 11:27) |
| Nominated by Harbinger Capital and other investors, Scott Galloway had been seen as a strategist planning to shake up the company. |
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US Strongly Favors Leniency for a Madoff Aide (20 February 11:24) |
| In a letter to a judge, prosecutors say a former right-hand man has provided substantial assistance to the government in the investigation of the Madoff Ponzi scheme. |
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Strikes Expand in Greece Hedge Funds Bet on Debt Default (20 February 11:21) |
| Taxi drivers walked off the job for 24 hours in the latest protest against the government’s austerity program. |
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Banks Focus on People Who Can Pay More for Credit Cards (20 February 11:15) |
| Banks are focusing on a new constituency: the solvent. Banks are trying to get these people to pay higher fees for the promise of perks once subsidized by weaker borrowers. |
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Fewer People Late Paying Mortgage (20 February 11:05) |
| Mortgage Bankers called the fourth quarter a crucial turning point for housing. Still, the percentage of loans in foreclosure rose. |
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Bloomberg Shifts $5 Billion Out of Friends Firm (20 February 11:04) |
| The mayor is moving his fortune from Quadrangle Group 10 months after a scandal with the state pension fund. |
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Asia Leads the Global End to Cheap Money (20 February 10:07) |
| Stricter lending policies from China to Australia have been in effect for months, underscoring the two-speed path of the global recovery. |
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A Profit at BNP a Loss at ING and a Cut in Bonuses at Both (18 February 08:50) |
| Both banks will scale back bonuses, but ING has to deal with the fact that its fourth quarter saw a deeper setback than analysts had predicted. |
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RBSs Shining Star in Connecticut (18 February 08:47) |
| The Royal Bank of Scotland, which may be one of Britain’s most bailed-out banks, has a gleaming new $500 million U.S. headquarters. |
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Toyotas President Softens on Speaking to Congress (18 February 08:45) |
| Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor, appears almost eager to share information about car recalls. |
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Turning Patents Into Invention Capital (18 February 08:29) |
| Intellectual Ventures has acquired 30,000 patents and has so far collected more than $1 billion in license fees. |
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State of the Art Buzzing Tweeting And Carping (18 February 08:29) |
| Google offers a new tool that out-Twitters Twitter when it comes to sending and receiving messages. Is there a catch? You bet your Buzz there is. |
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Qantas First Half Profit Falls 72 Percent (18 February 08:14) |
| Qantas Airways blamed the drop in net profit on a drop in demand and scrapped its dividend payments. |
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Las Vegas Sands Posts Smaller Loss in Fourth Quarter (18 February 08:01) |
| The casino operator said its quarterly loss narrowed as its casinos in Macao showed a strong recovery and gambling in the weak Las Vegas market stabilized. |
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Fed Board Diverged on Timing of Policy Shift Minutes Show (18 February 07:52) |
| The committee had different opinions as to the timing and order of the Fed’s plans to begin the tightening monetary policy. |
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Hewlett-Packard Lifts Outlook as Profit Rises 25 (18 February 07:40) |
| The results for the industry bellwether showed that technology spending by corporations was creaking back to life. |
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Hewlett-Packard Lifts Outlook as Profit Rises 25 (18 February 06:14) |
| The results for the industry bellwether showed that technology spending by corporations was creaking back to life. |
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State of the Art Buzzing Tweeting And Carping (18 February 06:13) |
| Google offers a new tool that out-Twitters Twitter when it comes to sending and receiving messages. Is there a catch? You bet your Buzz there is. |
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Lufthansa Pilots Approve Four-Day Strike (18 February 06:12) |
| The airline and the union said they remained open to bargaining on issues like wages and job security. |
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RBSs Shining Star in Connecticut (18 February 06:02) |
| The Royal Bank of Scotland, which may be one of Britain’s most bailed-out banks, has a gleaming new $500 million U.S. headquarters. |
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Fed Board Diverged on Timing of Policy Shift Minutes Show (18 February 06:02) |
| The committee had different opinions as to the timing and order of the Fed’s plans to begin the tightening monetary policy. |
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Shares Improve on Growing Signs of a Recovery (18 February 05:45) |
| Concerns about Greece and its debt problems eased on Wednesday after a meeting of European finance ministers. |
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Regulators Said to Be Looking at Toyota Corolla (18 February 05:29) |
| Safety regulators in Washington plan to investigate steering problems in some Toyota Corolla subcompact models, a Department of Transportation official said. |
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Financing Offered for Delayed Airbus Plane (18 February 05:07) |
| Germany is prepared to offer up to 1.2 billion euros to help Airbus pay for cost overruns on the A400M military transport plane. |
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Skype in a Struggle to Be Heard on Mobile Phones (18 February 04:46) |
| Many cellular operators block Skype’s calls, or outlaw the use of VoIP service in their contracts. |
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RBSs Shining Star in Connecticut (18 February 04:45) |
| The Royal Bank of Scotland, which may be one of Britain’s most bailed-out banks, has a gleaming new $500 million U.S. headquarters. |
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Turning Patents Into Invention Capital (18 February 04:23) |
| Intellectual Ventures has acquired 30,000 patents and has so far collected more than $1 billion in license fees. |
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Turning Patents Into Invention Capital (18 February 04:23) |
| Intellectual Ventures has acquired 30,000 patents and has so far collected more than $1 billion in license fees. |
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State of the Art Google Message Feature Moves Beyond Twitter (18 February 04:13) |
| Google offers a new tool that out-Twitters Twitter when it comes to sending and receiving messages. Is there a catch? You bet your Buzz there is. |
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Financing Weighed for Delayed Airbus Transport (18 February 03:49) |
| Germany is prepared to offer up to 1.2 billion euros to help Airbus pay for cost overruns on the A400M military transport plane. |
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Hewlett-Packard Lifts Outlook as Profit Rises 25 (18 February 03:44) |
| The results for the industry bellwether showed that technology spending by corporations was creaking back to life. |
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Hewlett-Packard Lifts Outlook as Profit Rises 25 (18 February 03:01) |
| The results for the industry bellwether showed that technology spending by corporations was creaking back to life. |
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Wall Street Indexes Close Higher (18 February 02:54) |
| Concerns about Greece and its debt problems eased on Wednesday after a meeting of European finance ministers. |
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Airbus Seems Near Deal on Military Plane (18 February 02:41) |
| Germany is prepared to offer up to 1.2 billion euros to help Airbus pay for cost overruns on the A400M military transport plane. |
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Tech Industry Catches Its Breath (18 February 02:41) |
| New products have altered the technology landscape in recent years. Now, companies at the Mobile World Congress are making smaller changes. |
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State of the Art Google Message Feature Moves Beyond Twitter (18 February 02:25) |
| Google offers a new tool that out-Twitters Twitter when it comes to sending and receiving messages. Is there a catch? You bet your Buzz there is. |
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Fed Board Diverged on Timing of Policy Shift Minutes Show (18 February 02:17) |
| The committee had different opinions as to the timing and order of the Fed’s plans to begin the tightening monetary policy. |
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