Law:
How B of A’s GC Got Fired: Leave Now, and Leave Your BlackBerry Behind
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House Panel Challenges BofA on Timing of GC's Firing
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Fired BofA Counsel Tells Congress Of The "Wild Ass Guess" About Merrill Losses
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Lots of Intrigue, Few Answers in BofA-Merrill Flap
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Some Mysteries in the BofA-Merrill Deal
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Nationwide Layoff Watch: Schulte Gets Things Done Before the Holidays
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Jones Day, Boies to Battle over Lehman-Barclays Deal
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Stroock, Kasowitz Lead Way on Trump Casino Deal
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Harvey Miller Testifies Before House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
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Ugly Side of the Beauty of BigLaw
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Show Me the Money
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How Much Will That Case Cost? Who Cares?
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Rothstein And Dreier: How Much Alike?
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Attorneys seek Rothstein interview
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Judge Tells Defense Lawyers to Hire Private Security in Blackwater Case
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As Small & Midsize Firms Cut Costs By 1.8%, Revenue Drops 4%
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First Associates, Then Non-Equities, Next....
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Partners of Mintz Levin and Choate Form New Law Firm
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Class Claims Web of Attorneys Took $24M
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Five Questions for Law Firms Abandoning Lockstep Compensation
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Association for Corporate Counsel Says Its Rankings Aren't Ripe Yet
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Ex-Clients Claim Collapsed Law Firm Took Filing Fees Without Filing Suit
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‘Sonic Boom’: Rothstein Churned $250M in Trust Funds Last Month, Lawyer Says
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Winston & Strawn Opens Two More China Offices
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Will Immigration Crackdown Cost AUSA Her Shot at Top Post?
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Law School Tuition Hikes Spread Like Wildfires in California
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Most. LSATs. Ever.
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A misplaced modifier is not a $2.45-million mistake
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Lawyers Who Are Okay With Burning One Down (Or: Pot and the Law)
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Judges:
Testimony: Fed’l Judge Owed $150K on Credit Cards, Got $20K from 2 Lawyers
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School-Press Flap Frustrates Kennedy
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Sotomayor Becomes a Supreme Court and YouTube Celebrity
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Was Chief Justice's Comment on Special Masters Too Harsh?
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Second Porteous Witness 'Not Strong Enough' to Cut Off Old Friend
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Federal Judge G. Thomas Porteous Tries to Derail Impeachment
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Scruggs' judge gets 18 months
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Wall Street:
Wall Street on Track for Record in Profits
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Wall St. job losses looking smaller than feared
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Wall Street Investors Find Little Incentive to Buy
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Wall St gains on broker views, but retailers sink
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Boeing gives pink slips to 250 employees
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AP Lays Off Employees to Hit Cost-Cutting Goal
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House Leaders Push for Jobs Bill
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Geithner says rebalancing means jobs
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Get Ready For 7 Million More Lost Jobs
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Retailing:
Home Depot sales, profit slide in third quarter
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Foreclosure Proceedings for N. Colo. Mall Begin
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Retail sales improve, but grim holiday season still forecast
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Banking:
Healthy Banks? Tracking TARP Recipients Hit With Sanctions
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Help (still) wanted: Bank of America CEO
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UBS reveals investment banking 'revolution' to regain profits
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Citizens Financial parent to explore "strategic alternatives'
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DSB bankruptcy expected to take up to 10 years
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Magazines:
Reader's Digest plan trustee seeks to halt reorganization
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Discharge:
We're Bankrupt, Nearly Everyone Involved Is Off the Hook—Not So Fast ...
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
GA woman sentenced for SC bankruptcy fraud
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Health Care:
No medical bankruptcies in France
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Widow stuck with $161K medical bill
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Credit Cards:
Credit Card Defaults Fall At Capital One, BofA And JP Morgan, But Delinquencies Rise
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Distressed Investing:
Easing the stress of distressed M&A
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Values in Mauled Debt
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Accounting:
Hopefully You've Got Plenty of PTO
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Satyam Would Like the U.S. Lawsuits Moved to India, Oh, and PwC Would Like to be Left Out Altogether
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Mass Torts:
Madison County asbestos cases top last year's total
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Turnarounds:
Why the Boss Needs to Pay Herself More
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Economy:
Bankruptcy Experts Challenge Obama's 'Too Big To Fail' Plans
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U.S. House Dems sharpening 'too big to fail' plan
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The hiring rate for recent college graduates nosedived this year to the lowest level in decades
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House Systemic Risk Fund Could Be Capped at $200 Billion
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U.S. Wholesale Prices Show Few Inflation Pressures
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Who Was Really Bailed Out? We Still Don’t Know
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NY manufacturing cooled in October
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Fed officials differ on recovery's pace
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Hindsight On AIG Is 20/20
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AIG, Geithner And Backdoor Bailouts
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Bailout in Lieu of Bankruptcy : The Sad Saga of AIG
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Watchdog: Geithner Tried to Negotiate With AIG Counterparties
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Geithner Paid AIG Counterparties in Full Because He 'Lacked Leverage' With Banks
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Fed Busting
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Jobs 'saved or created' in congressional districts that don't exist
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"P--- Index" points to economic recovery
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A tale of two American economies
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The 'Racession': Asians Are OK, Mexicans Aren't, Blacks and Whites Suffer Together and Sympathize
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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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Real Estate:
A Stimulus That Could Save Money
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TransUnion Sees Delinquency Rise for 11 Quarters
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Housing Starts in U.S. Probably Rose, Consumer Prices Show Inflation Low
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Drake Hotel’s Prime Space Remains Undeveloped
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Ara Hovnanian: Surprisingly Upbeat at Home Builder Conference
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Southern California Home Sales Rise (Modestly) in October
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San Francisco Pending Home Sales Increase 58% Year Over Year
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Phoenix Housing Recovery is a Mirage
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Creditors approve LandAmerica's bankruptcy exit plan
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In Housing Bust, Government Increasingly Favors Homeowners Over Renters
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ResCap volatile as GMAC's plans uncertain
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Transeastern lenders given some slack on TOUSA bonds
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Trustee slams Alizadehs in new suit
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Philadelphia Gives Homeowners a Way to Stay Put
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Small Business:
Goldman, Buffett Establish $500 Million Small-Business Program
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Small Business Loans: $10 Billion Evaporates
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Small Business, Key to Recovery, Is Still Hurting
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Fraud:
Stanford Defendants Clash With Lloyd’s Over Payments
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Bernard Madoff Aide Frank DiPascali Transferred to Westchester County Jail
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Madoff Yacht, Boats Sold at Auction in Fla.
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Thomas Petters Takes Stand at His Fraud Trial in Minnesota Federal Court
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Petters Tells Fraud Trial Jurors He `Ran too Fast' and Trusted Too Much
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Ponzi scheme crackdown in California
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Raj Rajaratnam Is Not Looking For A Plea Deal
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Corporate Reform:
Elizabeth Warren: Financial Rules 'Literally Don't Work Anymore"
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Breuer: Beware, Execs, The DOJ Will Take Your Fancy Cars
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SEC Falls Short in Financial Audit
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Advocating For A Consumer Financial Protection Association
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Morgan Stanley CEO's defiant speech clicks around the world
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Cable TV:
Charter's Chapter 11 reorganization plan confirmed
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Autos:
GM Announces It Will Pay Back Gov't Loan - With Gov't Money
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Auto business remains GMAC's top priority, new chief says
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GM's future: what next?
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General Motors: Still a Loser
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GM Said to Narrow Search for New Finance Chief to Two Outsiders
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State OKs new tax incentives to keep GM in RenCen
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GM wants to dump liability for damaged engines in Dex-Cool cases
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GM Rebound Pivots on Sales After Henderson Cuts Costs
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More US Taxpayer Help For Fiat
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Report: Hecker lifestyle not hampered by bankruptcy
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Trucking:
Wayzata Capital submits winning bid in Gainey Corp. bankruptcy auction
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Lehman:
KDB's Min Rues 'Very Good Opportunity' Missed in Lehman Failure
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Lehman & Barclays
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Mining:
Immediate changes to Asarco unlikely
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Derivatives:
Debt restructurings spark CDS confusion
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Newspapers:
Auction for papers' fate pushed back again
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Charities:
Citing economy, Salvation Army lowers donation goal for kettles
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
More Middle-Class Americans Falling Victim to Bankruptcy, Study Finds
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Tax:
IRS Sees Success In Anti-Evasion Campaign
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14,700 Taxpayers Disclose Offshore Accounts
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IRS Details Map To Find UBS Tax Fraud
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Swiss suspect "serious fraud" among UBS clients
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Another 7,500 Confess Secret Accounts to IRS, as Swiss Unveil Plan to Say More
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How the tax code makes debtors of us all.
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Retailing:
Retailer Earnings Show Stabilization
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Celebs:
Nicolas Cage's Money Woes
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Nicolas Cage caused his own financial ills, ex-business manager says
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Resorts:
Trouble in Paradise
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Aviation:
Delta Offers $1 Billion to Japan Airlines
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Transport Min: never said JAL's court-led- bankruptcy impossible
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Japan Air Falls After Report on Minister's Bankruptcy Remarks
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Municipalities:
Business leaders back anti- bankruptcy plan for JeffCo
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Furniture:
Simon hires Lazard for General Growth bid--sources
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It's Chapter 11 and business as usual at Simmons
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Gambling:
Penn National asks bankruptcy court for approval to buy Fountainebleau
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Gaming expo workshop focuses on bankruptcy
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Foxwoods fails to make full debt payment
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Sillerman's Vegas Dreams Crash
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Two Rivers panel to release mortgage used as collateral for loan in default
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Trump, bondholders reach deal over 3 NJ casinos
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U.S. casino revenue slips 5.5 percent in third quarter
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Debt-ridden casino operators told to expect pressure
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Boating:
Bankruptcy officer tags Ranger as Genmar's best asset
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Finance:
Why GMAC Shouldn't Have a Government Ally
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Lender That Really Does God's Work Is Slowed by Funding Decline
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Corporate Governance:
Do Stockholders Really Know What’s Best?
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Was 'screw the shareholders' BofA's attitude?
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Compensation:
Fat cat pay - Then and now
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Sales:
Buyer Beware
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Hockey:
Bettman: Coyotes sale expected by season's end
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Metals:
Creditors shoot down Tri Star exit plan
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Student Debt:
College Debt Crisis May Turn on Lending Reforms
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Exemptions:
California homestead exemptions increase January 1
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Cuisine:
Recipes from the Great Depression
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Fashion:
No takers for fashion house Christian Lacroix: administrator
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Hollywood:
'Terminator' to have new owner by January
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Oil/Gas:
SemGroup chooses new CFO
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UK:
Govt proposes bankruptcy application reforms
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UK regulators will have the power to 'tear up' bank bonus contracts
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Russia:
Bankruptcy Bill to Grant 5-Year Amnesty
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Germany:
Ex-Deutsche Bank Chief Breuer Charged Over Kirch Litigation
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Spain:
Spanish Consumer Spending Drops Least in Three Quarters as Recession Eases
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