Law:

Dorsey Off Hook for Millions as Eighth Circuit Boots Malpractice Claim
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Chicago Bankruptcy Professor Hired Obama
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Akin Gump to Cut 65 Staff; ‘No Planned Attorney Layoffs’
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Law Firm Layoffs Continue, This Time at Blank Rome
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Pay Freeze Watch: Arent Fox Takes This Opportunity to Bring Back Deferred Compensation
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Bonus Watch: Goodwin Procter Adopts Cravath Scale ... And A Salary Freeze
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Cadwalader Earnings Fell 40 Percent
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The criticism of support staff at firms that are cutting jobs
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Cleary Gottlieb Profits
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Not for Long in Hong Kong?: Firm Weighs Axing Attorneys
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After 33 Years, Dreier's Fall Shatters Partner Pair's Bonds
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Why Crowell & Moring’s Vendors and Clients are Happy
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For Businesses Big and Small, It's Lights Out, More Opting To Liquidate
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Lawyer Cannot Be Prosecuted for Giving Advice, Panel Finds
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Fried Frank loses seven-strong team in Paris
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Litigation, bankruptcy likely to be hot practices in 2009
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Interest Rate Drop Has Dire Results for Legal Aid
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The Law Under Obama
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Job Market for Visiting Faculty Shrinks, Along With Law School Endowments
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Pellicano, Behind Bars, Faces Another Lawsuit
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Lawyer-Run Business Helps Attorneys and Others Arrange Discreet Affairs
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Geese in Engines, Vultures on Land?
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Judges:

Judge: I'd Rather Be Jogging
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Complaint: Judge Left Court Too Early, Too Often
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Judge Explains Why He Allowed Reporter to Live Blog Federal Criminal Trial
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Wall Street:

Wall Street Braces For a Week of Earnings Reports
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European, Asian Stocks Rise
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Wall Street Ends Higher After New Bank Bailout
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Charles Schwab 4Q Net Flat Amid Lower Revenue, Account Openings
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Shares Stay Stuck
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Merrill Lynch Enters Massive Subprime Securities Lawsuit Settlements
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Autos:

Reaction mixed to GM's financial plan
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$1.5 Billion U.S. Loan for Chrysler Financial
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Treasury Statement on Chrysler Financial Funds
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Detroit 3 say they'll need help to go electric
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Group 1 cuts executive, corporate pay to shave costs
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Here’s is just a sampling of what is wrong with Detroit
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Thousands Crowd Detroit Auto Show's Public Opening
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Checker Motors chugs into Ch. 11
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EU: Carmakers Won't Get a Free Ride in State Help
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Honda Extends Production Halt in Britain
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Layoffs:

21,000 Jobs Erased in a Day...
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87,000 "Big Company" Job Losses Already Announced in 2009
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WellPoint Says It Will Cut 1,500 Jobs
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Stora Enso Falls on Plans for 5,000 Layoffs, More Output Cuts
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Hertz sheds more than 4,000 jobs
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Cerberus Capital Plans Staff Cuts
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ConocoPhillips cutting jobs
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Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo, BOA, Barclays and more
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Dow Chemical cutting jobs
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GE Capital May Cut as Many as 11,000 Jobs This Year
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Jobs: Body Count Piles Up
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A Corporate Perk for a Stressful Time
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The Last Benefit: Unemployment Insurance
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Laid off? A dozen ways to cut costs quickly
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Big Firms Deepen Job, Wage Cuts
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WARN Act Claims Not Entitled to Administrative Priority
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The shock of Nortel's severed severance
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More Joining American Military as Jobs Dwindle
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Trucking:

YRC Worldwide gets loan waiver until mid-February
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Health and Beauty:

Estee Lauder lowers 2Q and full-year outlook
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The lipstick recession
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Health Care:

Farmington Center files for bankruptcy
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Wadley Regional agrees to sale
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Karykeion cash tap stays on
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Bankruptcy of Trans Healthcare, Inc.
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The health care industry was supposed to be recession-proof. So why is it in trouble?
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Politics:

Pelosi, Obama Split on Taxes, Probes
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Shipping:

Armada wins respite in US
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Games:

Midway Gains Extra Month To Pay Debts
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Tax:

Over 8 in 10 corporations have tax havens
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Reports cast serious doubts about security of corporate tax returns
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Fraud:

’92 Ponzi Case Missed Signals About Madoff
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Suit Claims Madoff’s Role Was Kept From Investors
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Bernie Madoff, Frat Brother
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It's Bernie's World, and the French are Looking to Upset It
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Inquiry Started of Financier Who Invested With Madoff
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Ponzi scheme activities spread all the way to Idaho
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Florida Fund Manager Disappears as Clients Report Missing Money
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FBI joins search for missing Florida money manager
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Regulators were warned about parachuting financier
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Bank Accused of Assisting $191M Ponzi Scheme
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Committees:

Court May Withdraw Derivative Standing of Equity Committee
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Accounting:

Volcker Calls for New Look at Fair Value
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KPMG UK Offers Staff a Four-day Week
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Investing:

How to Profit From the Credit Crisis
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Lender Liability:

Bank Held Liable for Assurances of Customer Stability
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcies In Prior Recessions
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Central Illinois bankruptcies on rise
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Bankruptcy filings increase in Oklahoma
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Food/Drink:

Whole Foods: Too Pricey to Thrive in a Recession?
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Food Management assets sold
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Turnarounds:

More businesses seek ‘workouts’
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Credit Cards:

Credit Card Companies Forgive Some Debt
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Apparel:

Madonna, Dior Lacemakers Slump as Recession Slows Weaving Mills
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Tech:

Recession Comes to PC Makers
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Radio:

Young skips bond payment
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Economy:

Consumer sentiment improves slightly in January
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Consumer prices fall 0.7 percent in December
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Inflation now at half-century low
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Summers Says TARP Will Focus on Consumers Rather Than Banks
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Obama to crack down on banks' use of taxpayer funds
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The Obama Economy
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Polls show wave of optimism sweeping nation
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Taxpayers already down 26% on their TARP investments
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For Obama, Rare Chance for Bold Start on Big Task
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Obama Gets Down to Business
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Business Flocks to Inauguration
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The First 100 Days: Key for Obama and financial execs
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Obama Urges Hope In Tough Times
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The Bush Economy
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Bailout Is a Windfall to Banks, if Not to Borrowers
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Constitutionality of Bailout Law is Questioned
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Paulson, Bair Raise 'Aggregator Bank' for Toxic Debt
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The Big Bad Bank
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Obama Urged to Move Swiftly to Rescue Banks
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Bush's Last Bailouts, Obama's First Migraine
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Obama Financial Rescue May Revive Effort to Resolve Bad Assets
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Latest US bailout: Tarp 1.0 meets Super-SIV?
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Prices Rose Just 0.1 Percent Last Year
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Dem plan repeals big tax break
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An interactive guide to the bailout trillions
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US Industrial Production Fell 2% in December, Led by Autos
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Stimulus plan would help autos, airlines, Amtrak
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Fed's Evans: U.S. in midst of serious recession
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Real Estate:

Merrill to Pay $550 Million in Subprime Settlements
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Wall Street layoff storm also soaks office landlords
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Few borrowers can revise loans
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Financial Burden of Homeownership Spread Unequally
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John Laing Homes reviewing all options for funding
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Arlington home builder Wall Homes files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Real Estate Appraisers Prepare for Big Changes
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Banking:

The End of Banking as We Know It
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RBS may report $41.6 billion loss
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Obama Bringing "Strong Message" to Ailing Banks
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In Search of One Bold Stroke to Save the Banks
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BofA: $20B bailout, huge Merrill loss
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Mugging Bank of America
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How the Government Forced BofA to Marry Merrill Lynch
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Do Angered BofA Investors Have a Claim Over the Merrill Deal?
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Tallying Merrill's toxic assets
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Rating agencies move quickly on Citigroup and Bank of America
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No breakup at Citigroup
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Citigroup identifies workable structure - for future breakup
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Bank Investors Beware, Shareholder Interests Are Secondary
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Will U.S. Finally Take Bad Assets Off Banks’ Books?
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Banks in need of more capital: Paulson
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Two U.S. banks fail, first casualties in 2009
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The Dancing Bear Tires
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Wilbur Ross gets his bank
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National Bank Probes by States Draw US Supreme Court Review
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Mellon Bank founder's ouster sparks board-room rebellion
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Retailing:

Circuit City to be liquidated
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Salinas gambles on Circuit City and loses
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Sears to Keep Layaway Program at Namesake Stores
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Three bidders eye retailer Circuit City: report
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Linens liquidation plan approved
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Saks Chief’s Sales-Growth Strategy Walloped by US Recession
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Sharper Image Stores Are Dead, but the Brand Goes On
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Jurisdiction:

Third Circuit Tackles 'Core Proceedings' Issue
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Student Debt:

The Great College Hoax - Higher education can be a financial disaster. Especially with the return on degrees down and student loan sharks on the prowl
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Finance:

Cost of Borrowing Zooms Up for Corporations
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Thaw in credit markets may be over
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US 3-Month Interbank Rates Up for 2nd Day Running
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How to Fix Finance
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To Unfreeze Credit, Stop Coddling Debtors
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Debt Collection:

Debt Collector Uses Witchcraft
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Telecoms:

Nortel CEO should slash pay: McGill prof.
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Sasken has 70 mln rupees in receivables from Nortel-CFO
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Proposed Nortel sales will test Ottawa’s stance on foreign takeovers
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Nortel creditors span the works
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Mining:

Augusta Settles ASARCO Lawsuit
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Strategic Resource and unit to seek cash use, case consolidation
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Apex Silver gets interim OK to tap DIP
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Personal Finance:

Preparing Your Budget for Disaster
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Return to D.I.Y. Ethic Erodes Service Businesses
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Older Americans postpone retirement as economy sags
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Portfolio in Ruins, It’s Time to Pay for Summer Camp
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Newspapers:

NY Times Seeks Rescue From Mexican Mogul
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Slim to Invest About $250 Million in New York Times, NYT Says
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Can money alone save The New York Times?
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Guild Responds to 'Star Tribune' Bankruptcy Notice
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Star Tribune Bankruptcy Further Roils Newspaper Waters
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Star Tribune says it won't need new loan, for now
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Star Tribune Employees Put Some Blame on PE Debt
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The Popular Newsweekly Becomes a Lonely Category
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Gannett says it will sell or close Tucson Citizen
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TV, Newspapers Can't Shortcut Digital, It's All Or Nothing
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Hedge fund wins Sun-Time proxy
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Newspapers and Blogs Feel the Pinch
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Revolving Door Of Editors, Publishers At Top Newspapers
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Chemicals:

LyondellBasell's fall into bankruptcy was swift
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BASF Slows Factories, Cuts Jobs as Chemical Market Deteriorates
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Corporate Reform:

The hunt for Wall Street wickedness: who's going to jail?
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Insurance:

Big insurers buying tiny banks to bag bailout bucks
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UBS agrees to buy commodity index from AIG
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Hannover Re to Buy, Sell More Insurance-Linked Notes, CFO Says
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Alternative Energy:

More litigation on Lima Ethanol plant sale this week
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VeraSun Set to Auction Off Ethanol Plants
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Sovereign Debt:

Spain’s Debt Downgraded by S&P as Slump Swells Budget
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Ukraine Bonds Flag Default as Russia Has ‘Upper Hand’
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