Business Stories from July 1, 2012 (Change date)
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Small business advocate finds middle groundJul 01, 2012 4:49 pm - WASHINGTON — Todd McCracken has spent much of the last quarter century listening to both sides on small business issues — company owners on one side, and policy makers o...
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Midyear tax checkup makes extra sense this yearJul 02, 2012 7:02 am - Ready or not, big changes lie ahead for virtually every U.S. taxpayer next year. Tax cuts put into place under the Bush administration that slashed rates on wages, divid...
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Seeking elusive ‘alpha,’ investors scour the globeJul 02, 2012 7:02 am - NEW YORK — You can leap off a mountainside in extreme skiing, kick and claw to near death in extreme fighting and twist yourself into a pretzel in extreme yoga. Why not ...
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Some public stations can air political ads, but should they?Jul 01, 2012 7:15 am - NEW YORK — A federal-court decision has created the possibility that some public television and radio stations that are perpetually challenged financially could see a wi...
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Ads for spirits go after female demographicJul 02, 2012 7:02 am - Maybe it’s the ad’s strikingly handsome spokesman dressed in fireman’s gear. Maybe it’s the fact that his shirt has a winsome habit of disappearing, revealing sculpted p...
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What people really do when they work from homeJul 02, 2012 7:02 am - WASHINGTON — Digital technology — email and smartphones most of all — have vastly improved workers’ capacity to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, m...
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Southwest Airlines to sell live-TV service on 5 planesJul 03, 2012 10:56 am - DALLAS — Southwest Airlines plans to sell live television service on five planes and expand it to more aircraft by mid-July. The airline said that it would offer seven s...
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