Business Stories from January 12, 2013 (Change date)
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Small businesses basing pay more on performanceJan 14, 2013 6:38 am - NEW YORK — Raises are no longer a sure thing at Warner Communications — staffers at the public relations firm who were virtually assured of an annual salary bump before ...
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Guatemala builds private city to escape crimeJan 14, 2013 6:38 am - GUATEMALA CITY — The highway climbs toward the edge of Guatemala City, past deep ravines where the poorest residents of the capital live in thousands of cinder block hut...
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Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe gradsJan 14, 2013 6:38 am - PARIS — Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. “The lawyers in their black robes, t...
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Spaceport wants protections from tourist lawsuitsJan 14, 2013 11:41 am - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Spaceport America officials are urging legislators to limit potential lawsuits from wealthy outer space tourists who take off from New Mexico, saying...
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Starbucks enters entrenched Vietnam coffee marketJan 14, 2013 6:38 am - HANOI, Vietnam — Nghiem Ngoc Thuy has been slinging coffees to thirsty Vietnamese for 20 years in her colonial-style villa with peeling shutters, and she and her custome...
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6 ways to put those unwanted gift cards to useJan 14, 2013 6:38 am - NEW YORK — Gift cards are easily forgotten. All too often they're placed in drawers or stuffed into wallets, never to be seen again. Some $1.7 billion of the $110 billi...
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Treasury rejects trillion-dollar coinApr 02, 2018 1:13 pm - WASHINGTON — Forget about the government minting a $1 trillion coin to solve its debt-limit crisis. Treasury Department spokesman Anthony Coley said Saturday that neithe...
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Oracle says Java flaw will be fixed ‘shortly’Apr 02, 2018 1:13 pm - NEW YORK — Oracle Corp. says it will soon fix a flaw in its Java software that caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In a statement Saturday...
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Hospitals crack down on workers refusing flu shotsJan 11, 2017 1:32 pm - CHICAGO — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down...
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Storm commission urges flood walls for subwaysApr 02, 2018 1:13 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. — A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Sandy released a report Friday that calls for flood walls in subways, water pumps at airp...
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