All Stories from August 4, 2013 (Change date)
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More leasing fuels highest U.S. sales since 2007Aug 04, 2013 6:56 am - SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Toyota is using $199-a- month leases on its Camry to keep it the top-selling car in the United States, much as it did to recover from record recalls ...
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Iraq’s worsening security woes hit local economyAug 04, 2013 6:55 am - BAGHDAD — Sunni truck driver Obeid Manaa had been hauling goods from neighboring countries to Baghdad for years but won’t go near the Iraqi capital after a Shiite militi...
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Following Bernanke means using precedent of unprecedented policyAug 04, 2013 6:48 am - WASHINGTON — The success of the next Federal Reserve chairman, be it Janet Yellen, Lawrence Summers or someone else, will depend less on their grounding in monetary poli...
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Education innovation blooms in recession’s wakeAug 04, 2013 6:47 am - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On a warm spring evening, hundreds of investment bankers, venture capitalists and geeky tech entrepreneurs gathered near the pool of the Phoenician, ...
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Uncle Sam a tougher customer for small businessesAug 04, 2013 6:40 am - NEW YORK — Uncle Sam isn’t as easy a customer to land as he used to be. Even before $85 billion in federal budget cuts went into effect this spring, small business owne...
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When a mutual fund says it doesn’t want your moneyAug 04, 2013 6:27 am - NEW YORK — “No thanks.” That’s what a growing number of mutual fund managers are telling investors who want to hand over their money, and it’s occurring just as many inv...
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Equip sedentary daughter for life beyond TVAug 04, 2013 6:15 am - Q. I am the father of a 13-year-old daughter who is not very active. She would rather sit on the couch and watch TV than do anything else, whereas most of her friends pl...
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'Flashdance' obsession comes full circle with dancer's lead roleAug 04, 2013 6:15 am - As a 7-year-old, Jillian Mueller was so enamored of dancing that her New Jersey parents got her all kinds of movies for Christmas that dealt with dance. One of those was...
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Burke's latest novel is a superb crime storyAug 04, 2013 6:00 am - The themes in James Lee Burke's lyrical, allegorical crime novels rarely change, but each new book delves more deeply into them, revealing an author who is increasingly ...
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Back-to-school shopping likely to be less this yearAug 04, 2013 6:00 am - Tiffany Slaney-Leigh, 14, of El Cerrito, Calif., says she'd love to get a laptop, an iPhone, three-inch wedge sneakers, mini dresses and a butterfly tattoo on her hip be...