Business Stories from December 8, 2013 (Change date)
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Accretive Helping Hands builds a home in ChicagolandDec 08, 2013 10:00 pm - As a part of the company's commitment to philanthropic activities, Accretive Health employees founded an organization dedicated to charitable giving, with Accretive Heal...
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Storm along East Coast dumps snow, snarls trafficDec 08, 2013 8:52 pm - PHILADELPHIA — A powerful storm that crept across the country dropped snow, freezing rain and sleet on the Mid-Atlantic region and headed northeast Sunday, turning NFL p...
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Gay partner benefits growing at Fortune 500 firmsDec 08, 2013 3:07 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate support for gay and transgender rights is reaching workers in new corners of the country and economy six months after the U.S. Supreme Court st...
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Food-tech startups aim to replace eggs and chickenDec 08, 2013 3:04 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco’s tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, but it isn’t like most of its neighbors that dev...
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Insurance agents feeling left out of ‘Obamacare’Dec 08, 2013 3:00 pm - MIAMI — When insurance agent Kelly Fristoe recently spent 30 minutes helping a client pick a mid-level health plan and the federal marketplace website froze, he called t...
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Madoff fraud still stings ex-clients 5 years laterDec 08, 2013 2:57 pm - NEW YORK — The last time Morton Chalek visited Bernard Madoff’s office, the then-trusted investment adviser gave him the customary warm welcome. “Hey, Mort, come on over...
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Hanover Twp., Cintas job fair Dec. 12Dec 08, 2013 10:00 am - Hanover Township and the Cintas Corp. will co-sponsor a job fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12 at the Hanover Township Town Hall, 250 S. Route 59 in Bartlett. Jobsee...
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Amazon, Postal Service may want to think about a mergerDec 08, 2013 5:55 am - The news that Amazon had essentially hired the U.S. Postal Service to deliver on Sundays was both surprising and completely sensible. The partnership of a floundering, o...
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Pilots said to need training after losing skills to automationDec 08, 2013 5:55 am - WASHINGTON — Airline pilots have lost flying skills as automation takes over mundane tasks and may be startled when systems don’t behave as expected, both of which have ...
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Schools play catch-up as e-cigarettes catch onDec 08, 2013 5:55 am - WASHINGTON — When a teacher noticed what looked like smoke rising in her Eastern Middle School classroom one day this fall, she quickly investigated, finding an eighth-g...
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