Deerfield Business
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Profits and prescriptionsDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - GlaxoSmithKline LLC recently joined a host of retailers and AIDS activists suing Abbott Laboratories for increasing the price of its HIV drug Norvir. Challenges from the...
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United vows to do better after third day of massive flight cancellationsDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - For a third consecutive day, United Airlines took it on the nose Wednesday for continuing to cancel hundreds of flights but promised to do better today, despite upsettin...
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Retailers slash prices in attempt to salvage shopping seasonDec 26, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The nation's retailers slashed prices further Wednesday in hopes a post-Christmas shopping rush will salvage holiday sales that, so far, have fallen below ev...
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Cook Co. Movers & ShakersDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Edward Rafalski was named vice president of marketing, to oversee all marketing and communications for the Alexian Brothers Hospital Network, a subsidiary of Alexian Bro...
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2007: A year of surprising twistsDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - In "The Wizard of Oz," farmhand Zeke, played by Bert Lahr, spots trouble on the horizon and shouts a warning. "It's a twister. It's a twister." Like a twister on an unev...
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Lake Co. Movers & ShakersDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - After completing new agent school, Carlotta Ruiz-Smith of Grayslake was named an agent for Country Insurance & Financial Services. Ruiz-Smith, who holds a bachelor's deg...
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Platterpus Records finds fondness for vinyl onlineDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - When a photographer and musician met five years ago, they didn't expect something as common as vinyl would lead them into a business partnership. Peter Kuehl, 40, of Sch...
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Briefs: Walgreen earnings up 5.5 percentDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - DEERFIELD -- Walgreen Co. used cost-cutting to help it overcome tougher economic conditions in its fiscal first quarter, reporting a 5.5 percent profit increase Friday. ...
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Last minute holiday shopping? You're not aloneDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Last-minute Christmas shoppers are expected in full-force at area malls this weekend. Rising food and fuel prices have cautious consumers taking more of a wait and see a...
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Abbott drug gains European approvalDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - LIBERTYVILLE TOWNSHIP -- Abbott Laboratories said on Thursday that European regulators had approved use of its blockbuster Humira arthritis drug as a treatment for moder...