Law:

Brown Rudnick Names Three New Bankruptcy Partners
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Former Kaye Scholer Partner Pleads Guilty to Tax Charge
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Settlement Agreement in Spotlight as Legal Malpractice Case Against Duane Morris Begins
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If Presidential Candidates Were Top Law Firms, Which Ones Would They Be?
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Lawyer's E-Mail Goof Lands on NYT's Front Page
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Painful Lessons in Electronic Discovery from Qualcomm Decision
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Bonus Watch: Dechert Docks Associates for Dilatory Billables
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Profit up 10% at New York's Paul Weiss
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Associates at Top KC Firms Top $100K
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How Does Escalating Compensation Fit In With Today's Firm Economics?
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Cadwalader Equity Partner Profit Dips, But Microsoft Deal Will Refill Coffers
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Death of the "King of Torts" Triggers Ugly Fight Over Firm, Stakes in Jets, Football Franchise
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Lawyer's Email Slip-up Leads to Zyprexa Leak
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How Being the Bearer of Bad News Could Be Good for Your Career
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"Angry Guy Gets Law License, Sues"
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Diverse Practices, Fewer New Hires Boost Firm's Revenue, Profits
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Minority Enrollment at Law Schools Is Faltering
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Second Suit Proceeds Seeking Pay Raise for Judges
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How GCs Can Avoid Recession-Planning Pitfalls
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Some States Seek to Limit Judicial Power to Regulate Lawyers
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Lawyer Featured in Column on Medical Mysteries
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Clemens talks, experts say he shouldn't
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Is honesty really always the best policy?
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Say What?!
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Bonds:

Fitch mulls MBIA downgrade
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Fitch Again Warns on Bond Insurers
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Monolines face more losses
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Banks Reportedly Mull Group for FGIC
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Force Behind Bond-Insurer Rescue
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Ambac Directors Accused Of Dumping Stock
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Municipal Bonds Providing No Safe Haven From Stock Market Storm
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Wall Street:

Stocks Plunge on Service Sector Weakness
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How Wall Street Voted
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Lehman's Head of Fixed Income Unit, Nagioff, to Leave
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Goldman's CMO Liabilities
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Goldman Is Fired by Massachusetts Fund Amid Changes
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The Street's Fears Deepen
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Asian Markets Follow Dow's Decline
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Stocks Look to Extend Losses After Tuesday's Dismal Day
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Bargain Prospects Lift Stock Futures
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Layoffs:

Charming Shoppes Cuts 200 Jobs
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Fraud:

French Trader Says He Won't Be Made a Scapegoat
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SocGen trader got 'a bit carried away'
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Jerome Kerviel looking a lot less smart
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SocGen Traders, Executives Worried About Bonuses
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Telecoms:

Maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path
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Former Enron turnaround chief to head Hawaiian Telcom
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Video Rentals:

Court Approves Movie Gallery's Disclosure Statement
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Recording Industry:

Closing A Chapter of Hip Hop History
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WMG Bids For Death Row Catalog
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Producer Teddy Riley In Financial Trouble, Puts Studio On The Market
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Art:

Gallery Seeks to Resolve Art Dispute
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Salander committee can pursue claims
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Lawyers Suggest Process to Retrieve Art From Salander-O'Reilly
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Hedge Funds:

Ritchie Capital Pays $30M+ for Market Timing
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Hedge fund settles with NY, SEC for $40M in trading case
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Investors pull funds out of laggard Japanese hedge fund
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Software:

10K Filing Suggests Grim Outlook for SCO
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Tax:

IRS Is Likely to Get More Resources To Combat Cheating on Tax Returns
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Real Estate:

Foreclosures Smack GMAC
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GMAC Posts $724 Million Loss as Home Loans Sour
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GMAC May Cut More ResCap Jobs, Sees Refi 'Boom'
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Toll Says Sees Little Relief In Sight For US Homebuilders
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New Century files detail-lite plan
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House Judiciary Subcommittee Holds 3rd Hearing on Subprime Crisis
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How to Fix The Housing Crisis
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Goldman expects big drop in commercial property values
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Subprime Markdowns Reach U.S. Central, Credit Unions
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Morgan Stanley Cries Mommy, SEC Comes Running
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Apollo, Bain LBOs Lose Investors' Money, Bonds Show
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Thornburg returns to profitability in 4Q
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Subprime lender Accredited plans comeback
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Loan mod delays invite lawmaker action
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Judge mulling First Magnus employee suit
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Former Platinum Properties executives face fraud charges
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Cities Fight Glut of Vacant Houses
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Sub Prime Tsunami Costing Blacks, Latinos Billions
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S&P seeks comments on mortgage proposal
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Subprime-related writedowns to hit $265B in 2008
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Condo developers seek bankruptcy protection
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Troubled homeowners: Can't pay? Just walk away
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Caught In The Middle: Miami's Middle Class Exodus
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Another bidder abandons Ozymandius
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Bizarre Ripple From Real Estate Meltdown
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Economy:

US service sector slows down
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A bright red recession indicator
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US service sector shrinks for the first time in nearly five years
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Service industries in 'stunning fall'
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Consumer Comfort Index hits 14-year low
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Lacker Sees Recession Risk, More Cuts May Be Needed
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Additional Interest Rate Cuts Questioned
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Oil Drops Below $89 on Recession Fears
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When the middle class is deemed the rich'
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Senate advances stimulus package
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Furniture:

Wickes Furniture Plans Bankruptcy Sale
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Without buyer, Wickes could be liquidated
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Great American makes stalking horse bid for Domain
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Relocation:

Allied Van Lines Files for Bankruptcy
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Move On Down
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Consumer bankruptcy filings increased more than 30 percent nationwide
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Mining:

Creditors, US government oppose investigation of Asarco
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Everything Must Go: Asarco's Big Selloff
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Parent company wants Asarco probe
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Aviation:

AirTran hits turbulence
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Alitalia cuts flights out of Milan
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Silverjet still losing altitude
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Accounting:

Demand For Accountants On The Rise
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Finance:

Corporate-Loan Market Is Reeling
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Politics:

The Economy: Good News for Dems, Right?
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Derivatives:

CDS sellers denied full role in bankruptcy arena
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Education:

Interviews Re Silver State Helicopter
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Attorney general eyes flight school
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No parachute likely for copter students
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Dreams of Flying Going Down in Flames
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Founder Of Copter Flight Academy Named To Economic Advisory Board
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Silver State Leaves Long List Of Creditors
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Charter School's Closing Hard on Seniors
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IP:

Licensing Intellectual Property From An Israeli Company: What Happens If There's A Bankruptcy?
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Student Debt:

Woman Shoots Husband Over IRS Garnishment Of Refund For Student Loan
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11)
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Autos:

Chrysler Has Accord in Supplier Rift That Shut Plants
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Plastech To Resume Production For Chrysler
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Old Detroit auto culture wins Round 1
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Chrysler Plays Chicken with Parts Supplier, Parts Supplier Loses
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Dura Execs to Forgo Bonus Payments
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Credit Card, Auto Debt to Spike in 2008
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BMW Seeks EU500 Million in Savings From Job Cuts
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Mercedes-Benz group global sales rise 16% in January
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Bankruptcy Reform:

The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008
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Addressing the "hanging paragraph" of 11 U.S.C. sec. 1325, a three-judge Eighth Circuit panel rejects the rulings of a majority
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Retailing:

Lane Bryant parent closing 150 stores
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To Make a Deal, Fortunoff Checks Into Chapter 11
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Fortunoff bankruptcy sad for Long Island
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Pier 1 is sinking into the sea
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Healthcare:

More than 100 potential jurors report for National Century trial
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Banking:

Bond insurer trials threaten banks as Ross circles
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Horse Racing:

NYRA Working on 'Contingency Plans'
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Odds are, dispute over racing franchise could go on and on
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Ratings Agencies:

Reputations on the line for ratings agencies
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The great credit rating scandal
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Firefighting:

LaFrance DIP lender is also suitor
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Distressed Investing:

Creditor committees
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The new complexities of workouts
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Do covenant-lite terms hamper restructuring?
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Corporate Reform:

SEC forms office to pay back wronged investors
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Oil/Gas:

Solv-Ex chief triggered $825-million loss in oilsands project
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Enron:

UC Settles for Millions in Enron Lawsuit
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G7 to mull cooperation on disclosure for securitized products
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Illegality of Securitization, Bankruptcy Issues and Theories of Securitization.
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UK:

Northern Rock is not a ticket for a 'gravy train'
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Virgin aims for A rating and hires top guns to capture Northern Rock
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Branson expects rocky voyage with Northern Rock
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Olivant could return for Rock
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Olivant Investment Firm Reopens Door to a Move on Northern Rock
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If recession strikes the USA, Britain may follow
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22% struggling to repay debts
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Debt juggernaut rolls us into a madhouse
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Asbestos ruling will pave way for claims by pleural victims
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U.K. Companies Slack on Filings
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France:

French protectionism and banks
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SocGen races towards discounted capital hike
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Canada:

Tembec bondholders reject Jolina scheme
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Ireland:

Survival tactics
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Australia:

Homeowners endure gloomy start to 2008
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Mitsubishi Motors axes Australian plant with 930 layoffs
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