Business Stories from May 28, 2012 (Change date)
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World stocks inch higher on Greek vote hopesMay 28, 2012 7:48 am - BANGKOK — World stock markets inched higher Monday after opinion polls in Greece suggested the country might stick with austerity and stay in the euro common currency. T...
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Russian tycoon unexpectedly quits as CEO of TNK-BPMay 28, 2012 7:48 am - MOSCOW — Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman has unexpectedly announced his resignation as chief executive at the Russian venture of BP. The venture, TNK-BP, said on Monday t...
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Batavia’s Kraft Plumbing celebrates 50 yearsMay 28, 2012 7:24 am - An interview with Bob Kraft, co-owner of K.W. Kraft & Sons Plumbing Contrators in Batavia. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: We are a plumbing contracting f...
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Two local businesses out-manage the economyMay 28, 2012 7:24 am - Let’s not debate the state of the economy. Instead, let’s discover how two very different local businesses, each dependent on discretionary spending by customers, succes...
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Free-e-book promotes fall releases with excerptsMay 28, 2012 7:20 am - NEW YORK — Summer is weeks away, but the fall book season has already started. “Buzz Books 2012” is a free e-book that came out Monday and features excerpts from 33 upco...
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Book details how swindler duped Ulysses S. Grant in gilded-age scamMay 28, 2012 7:20 am - For Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander who broke the Confederate army, bitter defeat came on Wall Street, not the battlefield. The date was May 6, 1884, and the broke...
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Study: Random Inspections Improve Workplace SafetyMay 28, 2012 7:20 am - Do government regulations in the workplace protect employees and consumers, or does the high cost of compliance merely drive companies to layoffs and bankruptcy? Propone...
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Australia tops OECD better life index, leading Norway, U.S.May 28, 2012 7:20 am - SYDNEY — Australia is the world’s happiest nation based on criteria including income, jobs, housing and health, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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Fact-check: Crossroads GPA ad exaggerates Obama’s debtMay 28, 2012 7:16 am - “Obama started spending like our credit cards have no limit . . . his health-care law made health insurance even more expensive.” — voiceover of new Crossroads GPS telev...
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Overcomes disability to become award-winning CEOMay 28, 2012 7:15 am - As a child, Michael Alter said he was a struggling student, due to dyslexia. His third grade teacher even told his parents that “not every boy will go to Harvard...