Business Stories from August 17, 2011 (Change date)
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Cigarette lawsuit could delay bolder warningsAug 18, 2011 4:24 pm - The tobacco industry's latest legal challenge to increased government regulation may not hold up in court, but it could mean it will be years before cigarette packs carr...
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Implosion of Vegas hotel tower complex but doableAug 17, 2011 10:40 pm - LAS VEGAS — The prospect of an imploding hotel tower on the Las Vegas Strip conjures images of Hollywood blockbusters — lots of dynamite, a dramatic fall and billowing c...
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Boeing 787 finishes flight tests in move toward OKAug 18, 2011 4:24 pm - Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner, the world's first composite-plastic commercial jet, finished its 20- month flight-test program last weekend in the final hurdle toward a...
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Rolling Meadows the latest to vent at ComEd over outagesAug 18, 2011 5:10 am - Rolling Meadows City Council members and residents took their turn venting to ComEd Tuesday night, as the company continued its tour of reporting its annual statistics t...
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Fund investors yank $40 billion in one weekAug 18, 2011 4:24 pm - Rattled investors pulled more than $40 billion from stock and bond funds in a single week this month as fears about the global economy intensified. The total of $40.3 bi...
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Wealthy take estate-tax exemptions beyond grave until 2013Aug 17, 2011 6:00 pm - Bloomberg News Wealthy individuals in the U.S. will find it easier to cut their estate-tax bill as a result of a provision for using their deceased spouses’ exemption cr...
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Texas agricultural losses forecast at record $5.2 billionAug 17, 2011 5:52 pm - LUBBOCK, Texas — The blistering drought in Texas has caused an estimated $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses this agricultural season, a record figure that could s...
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Baxter attorney said to offer lawsuit paymentAug 18, 2011 4:24 pm - WASHINGTON — A lawyer in Mexico for Bannockburn-based Baxter International Inc., which promotes its global anticorruption policy, offered to pay an opposing expert in a ...
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US stock futures little changedAug 17, 2011 6:07 pm - NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures were little changed Wednesday after companies offered a mixed picture of how the economy will affect their profits. Companies are still re...
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Mcgraw-hill to hire evercore for education unit adviceAug 17, 2011 2:41 pm - McGraw-Hill Cos., the owner of Standard & Poor’s, hired Evercore Partners Inc. to advise on a possible separation of its education unit, the company’s largest by revenue...