Business Stories from August 25, 2012 (Change date)
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40% of food is wasted in U.S.Aug 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Americans throw away up to 40 percent of their food every year, cramming landfills with at least $165 billion worth of produce and meats at a time when hundreds of milli...
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How to talk to inappropriately dressed co-workerAug 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Q: My office has a receptionist in her late 20s. Our dress code is business casual (but that isn’t documented anywhere, such as in an employee handbook). This poor girl ...
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Apple’s victory could mean fewer phone optionsAug 25, 2012 7:33 pm - SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.’s $1 billion legal victory could mean fewer smartphone options for consumers to choose from, analysts said. A federal jury’s verdict Friday...
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Some fashions just won’t flyAug 25, 2012 6:27 pm - DALLAS — Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stir as much debate as this: How you’re dressed. A woman flying from Las Vegas on Southwest t...
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Smart meter movement stirs rowdy debateAug 25, 2012 1:56 pm - DALLAS — Thelma Taormina keeps a pistol at her Houston-area home to protect against intruders. But one of the last times she used it, she said, was to run off a persiste...
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Dredge operators fight to keep Mississippi openAug 25, 2012 1:24 pm - GREENVILLE, Miss. — Another day, another sandbar to clear on the clogged Mississippi River. It’s a routine that’s settled in as the drought in the nation’s central state...
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Chinese turn to microblogs for donationsAug 25, 2012 8:17 am - BEIJING — Nine months after Ma Chunhua’s baby was born, bruises began appearing all over the daughter’s tiny frame. When doctors this spring diagnosed it as leukemia, Ma...
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Barnes & Noble falls after second consecutive Nook sales dropAug 25, 2012 8:16 am - Barnes & Noble Inc., the U.S. bookstore chain working to navigate a shift to digital content, fell after posting a second straight quarterly sales decline in Nook device...
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Web designers should forget the desktopAug 25, 2012 8:00 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Every morning I wake up too early, reach for my iPad, and scan the morning’s tech headlines. This is a pathetic enough existence, but the websites I ...
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Twitter stomping on potential competitorsAug 25, 2012 7:54 am - Nothing says “We’re ready to compete with Mark Zuckerberg” like smushing legions of seemingly friendly collaborators beneath your feet to prevent them from becoming comp...