Law:
See The Bankruptcy Attorneys Breaking The $1000 Per Hour Barrier
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Chicago bankruptcy lawyers charge more than $900 an hour
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Dewey Matches Market for Bonuses, Keeps Lockstep
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Weil Gotshal’s Boston Holiday Party Was in the Conference Room
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Big Law's Small-Budget Holidays
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How in-house lawyers and outside counsel from around the world dismantled Nortel.
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McKool Smith Expanding National Bankruptcy Practice
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Challenge to $40 Million Contingency Fee Now in Referee's Hands
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Harris Beach Names New Bankruptcy Partner
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Rothstein's Former Clients Sue Over Defamatory Web Site
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Associate Bonus Watch: Simpson Shares the Wealth with Public Service Fellows
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Tales of the Deferred: Will Other Firms Follow Nixon Peabody?
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Awkward or Not, Go to the Holiday Party, Recruiter Advises Laid-Off Associates
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McDermott's Lanny Davis Sticks Up For Partner, Ex-Mass Gov. Weld
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Staffing the Law Firm of the Future
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Remember WaMu?
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Billionaire Stanford & His Lawyers Held in Contempt Over Legal Fees Suit
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As Boston-Based Firms Grow Globally, US Competitors Expand in Beantown
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Partnership Expert Faces Malpractice Suit
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Malpractice? What Malpractice?: BigLaw Firm Fires Back in LeNature Suit
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Bad Holiday News for About 2/3 of Nixon Peabody’s Deferred Associates
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WolfBlock Alums Gather for Party; About 1/3 Are Jobless or Underemployed
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Class action firm sanctioned over solicitation of workers for overtime suit
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Best. Motion to Continue. Ever.
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Sanctions Imposed for Wiping BlackBerrys
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Houston Associate, Family Members Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
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Ex-Wife Goes After Deep Pockets
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BigLaw Parties Hardly for the Holidays
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Year-End Lists: Lawyers Behaving Badly
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Foreign Law Firms Can’t Open in India, Mumbai High Court Rules
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Ninth Circuit Names Bankruptcy Judge
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Judge Kevin Moriarty Did Not Beat the Honorable Gavel
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Judge Cormac Carney: The Left Coast's Jed Rakoff?
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Judge Carney's Dramatic Dismissal of the Broadcom Backdating Criminal Case
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Former Justice O'Connor leads push to end judicial elections
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Wall Street:
US stock futures point to weaker start for Wall St
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US Stocks Erase Gain as Bond Yields Rise on Inflation Concern
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Detroit's Unemployment Nears 50%
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Unemployment taxes may double or even triple in 2010
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Finance Layoffs & Hirings: Deutsche Bank and more
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Finance Job-Seekers Said to Be Open to Pay Cuts
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Banking:
FDIC Said to Bar Subprime Executive From Work on Failed Banks
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Treasury Report: Bank Lending Down Again
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Treasury Backs Out of Plans to Sell Citi Stake
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Prodding Banks Without a Stick
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Two bills in Congress restore Glass-Steagall
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Is a WaMu-JPMorgan Settlement Possible?
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Bailout banks keep tax breaks as they repay loans
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Citi's $38 Billion Tax Break Fiasco
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Credit Suisse's Rogue Banking
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Bank of America Names Moynihan CEO, Replacing Lewis
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Derivatives:
Roe in Financial Times: End bankruptcy priority for derivatives, repos and swaps
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Education:
Lawsuit Traces Bankruptcy to Vendetta
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Building Materials:
Jones Stephens files for bankruptcy protection
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Museums:
Fresno Metropolitan Museum Nears Bankruptcy
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Gambling:
RI slot parlor files reorganization plan
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Boyd Offers $2.45 Billion in Cash, Debt for Station
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Next step after tribe's default not yet certain
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Food/Drink:
New York Supermarket Chain Bids for P&C Stores
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Tavern on the Green prepares for auction
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Merisant Plan of Reorganization Approved
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Westgate Mall sues Brigham's
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Aviation:
Teamsters Urge Bankruptcy Reform to Protect Airline Workers
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American Could Top Up USD$1.1 Bln JAL Offer
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Economy:
Obama considering executive order as way to stave off bankruptcy
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Limit on federal borrowing may hit $290 billion
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Fed Will Hold Down Rates, Citing Tenuous Recovery
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US Senator Vows to Block Bernanke's Second Term as Fed Chief
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Time's Person of the Year 2009: Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke
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Ben Bernanke is Time's Person of the Year. Is he doomed?
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Fasten Your Seatbelts: The Great Central Bank Exit
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:
US mortgage delinquencies at new high
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Housing Starts Rise Less Than Expected
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Housing Starts Surge in November
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Who is to blame for the mortgage modification mess?
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BofA to Focus on Sense of Urgency in Converting HAMP Mods
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Citi to Suspend Foreclosures for 30 Days
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4 Big Mortgage Backers Swim in Ocean of Debt
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Financial Rules Bill Permits Commercial-Mortgage Debt Loophole
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Brookside Tampa seeks bankruptcy
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TOUSA bidding process, breakup fee approved
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Loan modification, bankruptcy can complicate each other
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Celebs:
Person of the Year: Elizabeth Warren?
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Inn Trouble: Randy Quaid and Wife Miss Court Date on Hotel Debt, Forfeit Bail and Are Felony Fugitives
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Fraud:
Hedge fund king Cohen's ex says he engaged in insider trading
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Rajaratnam, Chiesi, court showdown looms
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Galleon Witness Khan Appears in N.Y. Court, Judge Accepts Plea
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Galleon Witness Khan Appears in NY Court in Plea
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Former Lazard Banker Accused of Insider Trading
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The Stanford Saga: Three Questions About Recognition
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Bankruptcy fraud prosecutions down
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
Prosecution Drop May Embolden Bankruptcy Fraud as Filings Surge
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Trucking:
Goldman Sachs Accused by Teamsters of Driving YRC Toward Ruin
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YRC Worldwide extends offer deadline again
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Golf:
Woodcrest Club details plan to emerge from bankruptcy
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Time for the rescue club
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Funeral Services:
96 Boxes Of Cremated Remains Found In Storage Unit
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Brokerages:
CFTC Proposes To Let Trustees Operate Bankrupt Broker Accounts
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Hockey:
Coyotes captain defends Gretzky
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Ice Edge partners laughing all the way to the bank?
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Red ink pours unchecked from Coyotes
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Retailing:
Why The Bear Case On General Growth Properties Is Totally Wrong
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Century Plaza future unclear as owner restructures $10.25B in debt
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4 Stocks Enjoying Their Last Christmas?
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Distressed Investing:
Converting carnage into value
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Compensation:
Executive Compensation at a Turning Point
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Bank Bonuses: The 'Fat Cats' Try to Look Slimmer
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French Tax Bonuses 50%, Will US Follow?
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Theme Parks:
Apollo to buy amusement park operator Cedar Fair
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Health Care:
Judge rejects plan to throw out Sunwest bankruptcy case
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'Cadillac Tax' in Health Plan Would Hit Middle Class Hard
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President Obama Predicts U.S. Bankruptcy Without Health Care Bill
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Forceful Lobbying Push Helped Kill Medicare Buy-in Plan
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House passes COBRA subsidy extension bill
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CMS: Proposed Medicare cuts could be disastrous to hospitals
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Accounting:
Ernst & Young firm cleared in Frontier case
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Satyam's Internal Auditor: All Roar, No Bite
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Credit Cards:
When Credit Card Rates Hit the Roof, It's Time to Bust Out the Scissors
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Mining:
Golden Hill Ventures tumbles into receivership
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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:
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Morality:
Heroes of the Credit Markets, Third Class
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Airline unions ask House panel for changes in bankruptcy law
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Bankruptcy Music:
A Bankruptcy Riff on Christmas Songs
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"Debt-Free Girl"
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"A Bankruptcy Wife's Lament"
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"Debts in Wrong Places"
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Lehman:
Judge says Lehman can pump $100 million into bank unit
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Lehman Bankruptcy Judge Approves $50 Million Bonuses
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Intellectual Property:
Treatment of IP Licenses in Bankruptcy
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Aviation:
Scot airline Flyglobespan to file for bankruptcy
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Passengers stranded after airline goes bust
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Mass Torts:
Los Angeles jury rejects $26 million asbestos suit
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Finance:
The strange dance of big banks and small business
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Autos:
Creditors in Visteon case allege unfair business model for Visteon
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Visteon Creditors May Sue Ford
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The UAW: Detroit's New Management Bad Guys
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Obama eligibility lawyers represent Chrysler dealers
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Denny Hecker could face ' bankruptcy hell'
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Former Hecker lieutenant must testify, judge says
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Car dealers will learn to do more with less
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Wagoner's ouster shocks GM; task force readies bankruptcy
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Delphi Retirees 'Optimistic' Bill Will Pass
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Troubled Ssangyong Motor Avoids Liquidation
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Insurance:
JG Wentworth raises $84M in financing
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Corporate Reform:
SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown
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Corporate Governance:
Best-Paid U.S. Corporate Boards
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S.E.C. Cracks Down on How Firms Are Governed
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Hotels:
Court examiner gives Artisan Hotel report
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Software:
Ch. 11 Trustee Cahn Opposes SUSE's Motion to Lift Stay
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Municipalities:
Judge denies Prichard pensioners' request to move ahead with lawsuit
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California Bonds Fail on Advice Bill Lockyer Couldn't Refuse
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RVs:
Tucson's Beaudry RV cuts 51 people
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Biotech:
Bankruptcy court OKs Hawaii Biotech spending plan
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Hawaii Biotech ousts dissident board member
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Tax:
First Appeals Filed in UBS Tax Case
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Movies:
Did Jennifer Aniston and Liam Neeson sink a distributor?
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UK:
UK retail sales in surprise fall
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Borders faces Christmas closure
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Time to pay arrangements 'winding down'
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Canada:
Goldman Sachs Fails to Reverse Transfer of Canwest TV Assets
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Quality footwear retailer Dack's slips in to bankruptcy ; closing last 6 stores
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Canada: From Depression to Bubble of Bubbles
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Greece:
S&P cuts Greece as it eyes return to bond markets
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Middle East:
Dubai debt crisis will force more transparency
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Dubai's Abu Dhabi $10 Billion Bailout Good News--For Now
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Italy:
US Deal-Making in the Downturn: Alternative Acquisition Strategies for Italian Buyers
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