Business Stories from July 4, 2011 (Change date)
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Obama says no to short-term debt dealJul 06, 2011 9:25 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweeping long-term deal within two weeks to raise the nation's borrowing limit rather than "kick...
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Winchester to tranfers jobs out of IllinoisJul 06, 2011 12:50 pm - OXFORD, Miss. — Winchester Ammunition has plenty of applicants for the 200-250 jobs it hopes to fill by the end of the year for its Oxford operation. The company is tran...
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Stores find success by focusing on the huntJul 05, 2011 3:51 pm - Trader Joe's, the specialty grocery chain, might not have the cheapest toilet paper or the most varieties of ketchup, but it hooks customers with mango butter, chocolate...
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AutoNation June sales up 3 pct from 2010Jul 05, 2011 8:37 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Car dealer AutoNation Inc. said Monday its new vehicle sales rose 3 percent in June compared with the previous year, a smaller increase than the ...
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West Chicago business provides skill training and consultingJul 04, 2011 7:01 am - Q. Describe your business. What do you do? A. Our passion is partnering with companies, whether big or small, in providing skill training and consulting services t...
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MBX Systems CEO named Executive of the YearJul 04, 2011 6:31 am - Tom Crowley, founder and CEO of server appliance manufacturer MBX Systems in Wauconda, has been named the Executive of the Year/Computer Hardware in the Stevie Awards’ 2...
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Financing options exist for small businessesJul 05, 2011 3:02 pm - Bank financing has been extremely difficult ever since careless underwriting and other excesses by Wall Street and banks of all sizes brought the financial world crashin...
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Celebrity real estate: Big-leaguer crashed at Mom’sJul 04, 2011 6:01 am - NEW YORK — Major League Baseball players don’t usually live with their moms. But when Eric Byrnes was first called up by the Oakland Athletics, he figured it’d be a sma...
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Celebrity real estate: Ben Stein riffs on dreams, nightmaresJul 04, 2011 6:01 am - Stein, the author, economist and commentator, hasn’t been living too badly in the eight years since the end of his old Comedy Central game show, “Win Ben Stein’s Money.”...
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Tornadoes, floods deliver blow to state budgetsJul 05, 2011 3:02 pm - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets, potentially forcin...