All Stories from February 17, 2013 (Change date)
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Couples find ways to build profits and happy homesFeb 17, 2013 6:23 am - NEW YORK — As Lauren Smith and Matt Hendrickson drive home together, all conversation about work must stop a few blocks from their house. The couple came up with the id...
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4 tips for investors to ease growing tax biteFeb 17, 2013 6:22 am - BOSTON — This year’s tax-filing deadline is a couple months away, and many investors are beginning to review whether they made any rash moves with their portfolios to tr...
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Be grateful, not angry during family discrepanciesFeb 17, 2013 6:14 am - ...
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Pining away for a life that doesn’t existFeb 17, 2013 6:14 am - Q. Sometimes I think I’d like someone to rescue me from my life — someone to make it so I don’t have to work anymore, and I just sit back and not think about anything se...
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Ideal Father’s Day turned out to not be so perfectFeb 17, 2013 6:14 am - Q. Last year, my father, father-in-law and I went on a fishing trip for Father’s Day. It was the first year I was a father, and so I figured it’d be a good time to do so...
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Brother’s no-shows seem passive-aggressiveFeb 17, 2013 6:14 am - Q. My brother and sister-in-law have been critical of the fact that we are planners. If we invite them for a dinner party, then we generally send out an invitation, date...
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China plays by its own rules while going globalFeb 17, 2013 6:05 am - MEXICO CITY — When Venezuela seized billions of dollars in assets from Exxon Mobil and other foreign companies, Chinese state banks and investors didn’t blink. Over the ...
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Play your (credit) cards right for a free vacationFeb 17, 2013 6:03 am - NEW YORK — A free vacation could be in the cards. Banks are competing fiercely for new credit card users — especially those with good credit. To entice new customers, se...
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Opulence the downfall of Jesse Jackson Jr.Feb 17, 2013 6:00 am - For all the talk of Jesse Jackson Jr. aspiring to be a U.S. senator or mayor of the nation's third-largest city, his career wasn't ended by attempts to amass political p...
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Best Ill. job prospects in manufacturing, medicalFeb 17, 2013 6:00 am - Illinois' widening medical industry and its old-standby, manufacturing, may be the best places to look for a job this year, although some of the positions will require i...