Business Stories from January 19, 2015 (Change date)
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Bulls, planes and Girl Scouts: Wheaton executive looks for next accomplishmentJan 19, 2015 4:00 am - Kathy Hopinkah Hannan of Wheaton has already run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, jumped from an airplane and ran the New York Marathon. The KPMG global lead partner ...
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Culture change may be needed to boost resultsJan 19, 2015 4:00 am - You know when things aren't going well: The company culture, the workplace atmosphere, has gone negative. Employees are grumpy, quicker to leave at the end of the day th...
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Real state of the union is a snapshot of our livesJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - They call it the State of the Union address. But presidents spend more time laying out their to-do lists and beseeching Congress, mostly unsuccessfully, to ...
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GOP divided over using budget process on health care lawJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans running Congress have promised to use every weapon in their arsenal to take down President Barack Obama's health care law. But now some are...
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EU won't ease Russia sanctions as Ukraine conflict ragesJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - BRUSSELS - The European Union foreign ministers are ruling out any immediate easing of sanctions against Russia as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine, despite concerns ab...
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Q&A: Why China's stock market plunged 8 percentJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - Chinese stocks plunged Monday after the country's securities regulator rapped three major brokerages for continuing to lend money for stock purchases in violation of rul...
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From car lots to city budgets, cheap oil means changeJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - Cheap oil doesn't only mean cheaper gas in the tank. It means that a car dealer in Illinois is shuffling the inventory of models he'll be selling, that more...
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Obama's tax proposals get cool reception from GOP lawmakersJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers are already signaling they will do what they can to block President Barack Obama's pitch for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans....
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5 goals from Obama's 2014 State of the Union: Yay or Nay?Jan 19, 2015 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union to declare 2014 a "Year of Action," and he can claim credit for accomplishing several of the goals h...
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AbbVie's hepatitis C treatment gets EU approvalJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - TRENTON, N.J. - North Chicago-based drugmaker AbbVie Inc. said Monday that its new, all-pill hepatitis C combo treatment has been approved for patients in the 28 Europea...