Business Stories from May 12, 2013 (Change date)
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Bangladesh to raise wages for garment workersMay 12, 2013 4:03 pm - DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 peop...
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Has the gold rush come to an end?May 12, 2013 4:01 pm - NEW YORK — When the price of gold plunged $200 last month, many people thought they caught the sound of the gold bubble popping. What Peter Schiff, the CEO of brokerage ...
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Project aims to track big city carbon footprintsMay 12, 2013 4:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other...
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Work advice: The benefit of office bereavement policiesMay 13, 2013 7:19 am - Q: My mother died last fall, leaving me distraught. My boss eventually sent an email to our department about my loss and mentioned that he didn’t circulate a sympathy ca...
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For some Detroit services, call the D.I.Y. Dept.May 13, 2013 7:19 am - DETROIT — Detroit may be broke but it will soon have a first-rate motor pool, featuring 23 new ambulances and a fleet of 100 new police cars. Some city parks also are ge...
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Irksome dome light hard to diagnoseMay 13, 2013 7:19 am - Q. My overhead interior dome lights do not turn off after turning the car off. I have to manually turn them on and off. Also, my left rear passenger door does not open w...
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Cars made in Brazil are more deadlyMay 12, 2013 6:28 am - SAO PAULO — The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry’s biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil’s new middl...
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