Business Stories from February 13, 2016 (Change date)
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The secret to getting more women to the top could be giving fathers more time offFeb 15, 2016 5:20 am - WASHINGTON — A huge study released Monday reveals yet more unsettling statistics about the low numbers of women in leadership jobs. In the report, the Peterson Institute...
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Why you're using your chip card at some stores and not at othersFeb 15, 2016 8:33 am - If you're like many shoppers, you've had a momentary blip of confusion — or maybe several of them — at a checkout counter lately. That's because some stores have outfitt...
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Your tax preparers might not know what they're doingFeb 16, 2016 5:06 am - For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary: • A tax preparer in No...
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How a 'superboss' turns employees into bossesFeb 15, 2016 5:20 am - Most of us just want a decent boss. Someone who doesn't take credit for our work. Who doesn't mind if we don't immediately respond to an email sent after 11 p.m. Who act...
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Work advice: Still seeing red over pink slipFeb 15, 2016 5:20 am - Q: I was laid off almost three years ago, after 20 years with the company. I had been a solid performer, working on interesting, challenging things. Then I took a month ...
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Falling stocks raise fears among retirement saversFeb 15, 2016 5:20 am - As the economy struggled to take off in the years after the financial crisis, Americans had at least one shining source of optimism: a booming stock market that not only...
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How Taco Bell tricks America's youth into loving its tacosFeb 18, 2016 8:17 am - True taco savants could only shake their heads Sunday night. After weeks of hype, including breathless news releases, YouTube videos and a preordering campaign - Taco Be...
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1,000 pages of Clinton emails released; 84 classificationsFeb 13, 2016 11:30 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department has released more than 1,000 new pages of Hillary Clinton's emails. Eighty-one messages were classified, mostly at the lowest leve...
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Obama to push trade agenda at summit with Southeast AsiaFeb 12, 2016 11:31 pm - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A summit next week between Southeast Asian leaders and President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliver any big economic prizes, but will allow t...
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Greek farmers end blockade of central Athens in tax disputeFeb 13, 2016 2:00 pm - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek farmers protesting planned tax hikes and pension changes have left a central Athens square where they had been camped out since Friday but ar...
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