All Stories from October 18, 2014 (Change date)
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Supermarket meat label change surprises customers, USDAOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - WASHINGTON — Retired doctor Louis Offen and his wife have been shopping at the same Giant supermarket outside Washington for almost 40 years. Offen is in charge of buyin...
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Fashion: The hidden story of Brooks BrothersOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - The venerable men's clothier Brooks Brothers has been a fixture in New York since being founded there in 1818. But it can be argued that the beating heart of the company...
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Pappy Van Winkle's aged bourbon can't keep pace with consumer demandOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - WASHINGTON — Hunting season nears, not only for wild game but the rarer prey of domestic small-batch whiskey. In a matter of weeks, the frenzied search for that most Ame...
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Schaumburg father, son honored for heroics 16 years apartOct 20, 2014 2:12 pm - Even among a highly distinguished group of lifesaving heroes, Schaumburg father and son Tom and Tyler Fredrickson are a rarity. Tyler, 15, recently learned that he and t...
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Work Advice: How to handle firing in next interviewOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - Reader 1: I was recently fired for chronic tardiness. I'd worked at this business for four years, and though I knew my lateness was seen as a problem by my boss, the fir...
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401(k) conundrum: lots of cash, no best way to make it lastOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - WASHINGTON — Even if you've socked plenty of money away in your 401(k) plan and invested it carefully, some of your toughest decisions lie ahead. And don't expect much h...
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Millennials spurring Canadian condo boom bet on ratesOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - TORONTO — Qamar Qureshi is doubling down on Toronto's condo boom. Qureshi, a senior finance manager at Sun Life Financial Inc., took out a mortgage this year for a C$360...
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Saldana, Luna talk Day of the Dead, 'Book of Life'Oct 20, 2014 6:10 am - LOS ANGELES — The Mexican holiday that honors the dead is the backdrop for the new animated film “The Book of Life.” Stars Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna say Dia de los Mue...
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How service workers struggle as the economy transformsOct 20, 2014 8:33 am - It's 11 on a Friday morning, and Betty Schueler is sitting in her mobile home, glancing nervously at her cellphone. She's off today from her job as a server in a bar at ...
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DuPage candidates differ on consolidating fire districtsOct 22, 2014 5:41 am - DuPage County Board candidate Jeremy Custer says county officials are “moving too fast” to consolidate fire districts and fire departments. But his opponent in the Nov. ...