Law:

Linklaters reveals job cuts details with 270 positions under threat
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Willkie, Lindquist Untangle Polaroid from Petters in $42 Million Deal
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Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms
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Quinn Emanuel Sees Double-Digit Growth in Revenue, Profits
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In a Counterintuitive Twist: Lateral Moves Are All the Rage
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Firms are carrying too much 'deadwood' at partner level
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Firm to launch 'cross fertility' program to fight recession
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Firms Ask Partners to Pony Up
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Is Shift from Billable Hour Motivated by Greed?
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Layoff Watch: the Ropes & Gray edition
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Ropes & Gray's Star Power
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January’s Carnage: 1,487 Law Layoffs
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Work Like an Egyptian
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DLA Piper secretly ups target hours
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MegaFirm Says Dozhvedanya to 30 in Moscow, Salaam to 23 in Mideast
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Russia's Lawyers Under Attack
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MoFo, Linklaters to Cut Deeply
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Morrison & Foerster Layoff Follow Up
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Linklaters ditches 18% of London associates and enrages the rest
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The impact of the extensive cuts at Linklaters
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Fish & Richardson Cuts 30 Support Staffers
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Firm set to cut 8%
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Law firms think outside the box to head off steep job cuts
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The Law Firm Recession Has Arrived
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Bonus Watch: Winston & Strawn
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I Do Not Think '25 Best Paying Companies' Means What You Think It Means
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Secretaries Being Asked to Cut Costs: Could it Save Jobs?
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Dreier, Jailed Lawyer, Indicted in $400 Million Fraud Scheme
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Group From Ailing Dreier Offshoot Quits to Open LA Office for New Kid in Town
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Mayer Brown forms ABL workout team
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Four Firms Adding Office Space, Lawyers in Chicago
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Distinguish between rate increases, fee increases, and outside counsel spend increases
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The Accidental Laterals
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Lawyer Indicted on Fraud Charges
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Attorneys Sued in Bernard Madoff Spinoff
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Snell & Wilmer Launches New Law Office in Downtown Los Angeles
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Famed Trial Lawyer Enters Marvel's Tangled Legal Web
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Pitfalls of Runaway E-Discovery Requests
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A Steppingstone for Law’s Best and Brightest
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10 Job Search Tips for Downsized In-House Attorneys
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Wall Street:

US Stock Futures Drop on Economic Concern
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Most European Stocks Decline
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Asian Stocks Fall on Renewed Recession Concern
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Stocks poised for gains
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Stocks fall Thurs. as Obama blasts bonuses
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Dating A Banker Anonymous
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Obama Calls Wall Street Bonuses During Recession ‘Shameful’
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What will it take for bankers to show a little remorse?
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Wall Street Bonuses May Go Way of Dodo Amid Bailouts
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Lewis, Thain, CEO Cult Torched in Crisis Bonfire
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Invesco Earnings Drop 82% as Market Slide Reduces Assets, Fees
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Layoffs:

Jobless rolls hit record peak, orders plummet
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Job-cutting has begun in earnest. But will the axe be wielded wisely?
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Kodak to Cut Up to 4,500 Jobs, Restructure, Has Loss
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Kodak redundancies show America battling reality
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Chico's cuts 180 jobs, may close 25 stores
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2,500 jobs to be cut by Ford
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OppenheimerFunds Cuts 9% of Workforce as Assets Fall
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Cessna : Layoff total to climb to 4,600 following 4Q report
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NEC Will Cut More Than 20,000 Workers
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Bon-Ton to cut 1,150 jobs, get rid of some bonuses
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Los Angeles Opera Announces Layoffs
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Electrolux to lay off more
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More Layoffs Quietly Under Way At IBM, Group Says
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Disney-ABC TV slashing 400 jobs
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Dexia to cut 900 jobs
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Caterpillar Layoffs: How They're Playing in Peoria
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Technology Companies Cut Most Jobs in 5 Years
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'Gig Economy' Spreads
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Why are CEOs all getting on the layoff bandwagon?
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Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, January 2005 to December 2008, seasonally adjusted
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Economist Predicts Job Losses Will Hit 6 Million
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Cruise Lines:

Royal Caribbean predicts rough sailing for 2009
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Bankruptcy Prediction:

Bankruptcies Expected To Increase More Than 35%
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Autos:

Jobs bank end won't halt D.C. bias
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Ford Motor Credit to cut 1,200 jobs
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AutoNation CEO: Profits Now ... Storm Clouds Ahead
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Lear Corp. reports $688.2 million loss
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Hotels:

Starwood Hotels Fourth-Quarter Profit Falls 46% on Travel Slump
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Photography:

Zink and partners look to buy Polaroid name, IP out of bankruptcy
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Kodak May Need to Sell Assets, Trim Dividend to Preserve Cash
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Retailing:

Retailers on the Ropes: Can These Companies Survive?
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Chico's to cut jobs, take charges in Q4
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Boscov’s reports record profit in December
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Circuit City Liquidation Sales Hit $450 Million
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Amazon.com Soars in Europe After Sales and Profit Top Estimates
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Fraud:

Brandeis Official on How Madoff Decimated the University
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Manager's luxe life on the line in Madoff case
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Ex-Merrill Executives Got Burned by Madoff
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Madoff Paper Trail Leads to NYC Warehouse
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Banks Agree to Transfer $535 Million to Madoff Firm Trustee
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Introducing the Bernie Madoff Action Figure
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Were Ruth and Bernie Madoff Partners in Crime?
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Madoff ‘Red Flags’ Could Have Been Raised by Software
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Larry King too fell ‘victim’ to Madoff
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Rounding up Madoff: The 17th Floor, A Poor Employee and JPMorgan
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The Madoff files
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KBL Seeks $4.1 Million From UBS, Madoff-Linked Fund
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SEC brings first TARP fraud case
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Cosmo, Called Flight Risk in Ponzi Case, May Get Bail
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Del Biaggio to plead guilty next week
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The Dirty Dozen: Guide to the Cheats, Crooks, and Con Artists of the Greatest Depression
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Chemicals:

HPG can tap DIP funds
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Nova Chemicals Reports Net Loss on Weak Resin Sales
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M&A:

How companies can prevent exposure before a transaction goes bust
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Executive Compensation:

Treasury should consider revoking exec bonuses at failed banks
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Bailouts, Bonuses and Clawbacks
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Dodd Is Looking at ‘Every Means’ to Reclaim Bonuses
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The World's 10 Wealthiest CEOs
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Thirst for perks may be in executive's DNA
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Apparel:

Sen. Schumer pledges to help save Hickey Freeman jobs
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Buses:

Motor Coach Industries' Plan of Reorganization Confirmed
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Software:

Microsoft boss loses $7 billion
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Hedge Funds:

Hedge-Fund Registration Bill Introduced in Senate
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Fortress Blocks Redemptions as Shareholders Lose 96% Since IPO
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Lehman:

Former Lehman Chairman May Face Creditor Heat Over $10 Deal
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Nightmare on Wall Street
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Economy:

Economy Shrinks at 3.8% Pace in Q4, Less Than Estimated
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Why 'the Worst Since . . .' Is Actually Not That Bad
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Durable-goods orders slump 2.6% in Dec
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Continuing jobless claims set record
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December new home sales hit lowest point since 1963
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Popular Uprising Against Economic Inequity To Spread Globally?
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Reports Underscore Weakness of Economy
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U.S. Eyes Two-Part Bailout for Banks
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Bank Bailout Could Cost Up to $4 Trillion
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Stimulus 101: What's in the bills
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Murdoch: Crisis Worsening, 'Drastic Action' Needed
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Pick your poison: world economy to grow at 0.5% this year—or shrink
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Treasury posts TARP, other contracts with financial institutions
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Promise, meet reality - As Obama takes the reins, the economic outlook remains as dire as ever
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Global Worries Over U.S. Stimulus Spending
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Why the world's economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves
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Biden Says Bad-Bank Plan Should Wait on Whether TARP Aids Banks
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Stimulus Plan Heads to Senate, Where Lawmakers Remain Divided
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Obama will probably need another $300 billion for TARP, Senators say
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Fed Cuts Value of Bear Stearns, AIG Portfolios 2.4%
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Don't forget those toxic assets
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Capex index shows corporate spending still dwindling
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What good is a bad bank?
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IMF now sees $2.2 trillion in toxic assets, 0.5% global GDP growth in 2009
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Nouriel Roubini sees "nowhere to hide" in financial crisis
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Almost half of Americans want to live somewhere else
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Is New Economy Causing Crimes?
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The Parties Go on at Davos
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Real Estate:

As Freezes Expire, Foreclosures to Soar
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New Home Sales Post 14.7 Pct Drop in December
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Mortgage rates slide in sour housing market
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Senate panel to seek moratorium on foreclosures
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FBI Saw Mortgage Fraud Early
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Mortgage Applications Tumble 38%
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Fed's "Homeownership Preservation Policy" Doomed To Failure
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Central Bank to Alter Mortgage Terms
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Royce International goes under
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Diamond Alexandria wins cash use
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US bankruptcy judge OKs Double JJ foreclosure
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More than a third of Wachovia’s ARMs are impaired, says Wells CFO
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The Changing Bankruptcy Picture
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Prediction: Las Vegas home-price decline will hit 52 percent
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Elderly hit hard by slow housing market
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Countrywide settles with PA AG
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Autos:

Auto Sales May Fall by 30% in January, Edmunds Predicts
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Report: GM bondholders could get 20% company stake
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Ford Burns $5.5 Billion in Cash, Taps Revolving Loan
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Ford Losses Are Awful, Cash Burn Is Worse
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Can Ford, down to its last $10 billion, go much longer without aid?
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Ford posts record loss in '08
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Hang on tight, Detroit; '09 to be a bumpy ride
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Dana Corp. to close McKenzie plant
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Car rental companies want TARP money
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CAW May Start Talks With GM, Ford, Chrysler Next Week
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British Auto Industry Gets Bailout; Cuts Back
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Porsche Half-Year Sales Tumble as Credit Crisis Takes Hold
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France Said to Consider Relaxing Aid Terms for Peugeot, Renault
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Honda Skids Into A Deep Ditch
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BMW, Daimler Fall as Crisis Seen Wilting Profits
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Ssangyong Vendors on Their Own
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Volvo Requests $626 Million Loan
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Aviation:

US Airways Posts $541 Million Loss on Fuel Contracts
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US Airways optimistic despite losses
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Continental Air Loss Widens to $266 Million on Fuel
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Continental, US Air Bring Group Loss to $1.35 Billion
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Textron Falls Most in Two Decades on Loss, Forecast
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Oil/Gas:

Occidental Profit Falls to 5-Year Low as Oil Plunges
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Oil Falls on US Supply Gain, Signs That Recession to Deepen
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Crude Oil Futures Rise Amid Signs That OPEC Is Reducing Supply
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Superior Offshore liquidation OK'd
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Exxon Mobil Sets Record With $45.2 Billion Profit
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Eco-mandate could force hundreds of gas stations out of business in California
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Newspapers:

Morris Publishing Hires Bankruptcy Specialists
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Is bankruptcy in the future for The Seattle Times?
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Media General Loses $85.5M in 4Q
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Paper Headed Toward Bankruptcy ?
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Cuts Coming Next Week at 'The Wall Street Journal'
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Baltimore Examiner Closing After Feb. 15 Editions
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The State of the Times Rumor
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Newspaper-less in Seattle?
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Derivatives:

Credit Swaps Industry Says Limits Would Hamper Market
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Gambling:

Revel slowdown latest drag on Atlantic City
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Atlantic City Feels Pain of Global Casino Decline
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Colony’s Vegas-Based Station Casinos Near Default, Analysts Say
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Pensions:

PBGC takes over Hull House pension plan
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Appeals court hears case on PBGC termination fees
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401(k) balances down 27% in 2008
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PBGC on government watch list for seventh straight year
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Corporate Governance:

The government and corporate governance
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Non-compete after death? Shareholders mortified by Shaw's 'golden coffins'
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Trucking:

Rumors of RigMaster's demise appear certain
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Flying J ‘winding down’ Big West refinery operations
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Food/Drink:

Court approves IBC financing changes
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Gantes workers laid off with no pay
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Starbucks Ratings May Be Cut By Moody’s
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Creditors of Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to meet
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Northlake wins confirmation
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Tourism:

Silent partner takes over Queen Mary lease
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Fashion:

Recession claims another fashion victim
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Education:

Harvard Alumni Protest Investors’ Pay After Fund Loss
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Religion:

Feds Probe Los Angeles Archdiocese
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Financial Literacy:

Should High Schoolers Pass Personal-Finance Courses to Graduate?
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RVs:

Country Coach employees fear company is permanently closing
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DIP Financing:

Banking on bankruptcies
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Bankruptcy Boutique: It's the Credit, Stupid
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History:

Bankruptcy
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Alternative Energy:

Jefferson Ethanol Plant Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Performing Arts:

Recession is bitter music for performing arts
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Accounting:

PwC CEO meets Indian minister to discuss Satyam fraud probe
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Mining:

Asarco's plot, but not its price, thickens
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Telecoms:

Outlook uncertain, says Nortel's Stevens
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