Law:

General Counsel Pressuring Firms Amid Recession
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Smaller Law Firms Gain Upper Hand as U.S. Companies Seek Savings in Slump
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Law Firms Moving from Period of Growth to Era of Efficiency, Expert Says
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Law firms position themselves to weather economic downturn
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Legal Industry Lost 22,300 Jobs in Last Year
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Akin Gump Offers More Cash to High-Billing Associates, Counsel
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Voodoo Economics: Zombie Firm Owes BigLaw Firm $1.4 Million
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Detroit lawyers see role if automakers file for bankruptcy
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Uncertainty might keep bankruptcy professionals busy
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Down economy brings uptick in business: Bankruptcy lawyers, pawn shops thrive
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Firm Offers to Cut Associates Salaries (and Paychecks, Naturally) to Avoid Attorney Layoffs . . .
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. . . And That Same BigLaw Firm Then Lays Off 93 Staffers
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Last Week in Layoffs
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Incoming Associates are Worried About Winstead
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Law Firms Continue to Hemorrhage Jobs Nationwide
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Tough Times for Law Firms, Lawyers May Be Catalyst for Positive Change
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Alston & Bird Lays Off 14 Associates, 38 Staff
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Don't Call It A Layoff: Alston & Bird Cancels Full Time Work for 14 Attorneys
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A pay freeze wasn't part of Linklaters' plan but the market has now shifted
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Shearman & Sterling Pushes Back Start Dates: Class of '09 v. '10 Can Now Begin Fighting In Earnest
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Law Firms Consider Shrinking Partner Offices
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Think Global, Axe Local: Area Firm Lays Off 26
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As Unpaid Bills Add Up, Some Lawyers Work for Free
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BigLaw Layoffs Ripple Out to Reggae Land
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In-Housers, Law Firms Spar Over Flex-Time, Part-Time Policies
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After Layoffs, Those Sent Packing Find Their Days Aren't Exactly Packed
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Failing Startups Leave Silicon Valley Lawyers Holding the Bag
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Diet-Drug Lawyers Guilty of Stealing Settlement Money
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Dreier’s High-Adrenalin Life on the Edge
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Hand Grenade Hoax Sends Hundreds Scurrying From Courthouse
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Don't Fall Asleep at the Switch
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We’re not Criminals, Just Busy, Sloppy Lawyers
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PwC Releases 2008 Securities Litigation Study
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Iowa Court Says Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
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Ending Up Railroaded
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Judges:

Does President Obama need to nominate 339 (or so) bankruptcy judges?
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Texas Judge on the Job Three Months Faces Federal Charges
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Worried About Cash Crunch? Lower Expectations, Justice Thomas Says
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‘Spanking’ Judge Given a Public Warning
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Wall Street:

US Stock Futures Advance
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World Markets Advance as Global Rally Continues
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Stocks Rise in Longest Streak Since 2007
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Not even the X-Men could have saved Wall Street
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To Sustain Rally, Market Looks to Earnings
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Time to Brace for Trouble As Profits Debacle Starts
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Firms Protest Move to Bolster SIPC
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Obama, Stock Picker-in-Chief, Is Looking Smart
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Accounting:

Mark-to-Market Rule Gives More Clarity, Not Less
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Analysts see little impact on US banks from mark-to-market rule
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EU ministers seek accounting rule change
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Beware Bean Counters' Changes
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Industry leaders blast FASB mark-to-market rule change
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SEC Sues Arizona Accountant Over $67 Million Fraud
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Bonuses:

Working harder for less? Not if they have a choice
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Fannie, Freddie overseer defends big bonuses
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Fannie and Freddie: Pay for Perseverance
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Sen Grassley: Fannie, Freddie Bonuses Wrong, Unneeded
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Congress backs off AIG crackdown
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Executive Compensation:

Administration Seeks an Out on Bailout Rules for Firms
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TARP Curbs GMAC Executives' Pay
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Executive Pay Stays Under Pressure in '09
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Who Moved My Bonus? Executive Pay Makes a U-Turn
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Theme Parks:

Disney Says 1,900 Jobs Eliminated at US Theme Parks
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Gambling:

MGM Mirage Hires Morgan Stanley Over Sale of Casinos
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A Reprieve for Project in Vegas?
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Australia's Crown: no Vegas project investment talks
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Like Las Vegas, Atlantic City feeling a pinch
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Aviation:

American, US Airways Struggle for Credit as Rates Rise in Slump
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BA expects loss as premium traffic dries up
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Shrinking Airlines Park More Planes in the Desert
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As AirTran lost money, CEO got $1.5 million
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Study: Airlines bettered performance in 2008
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Celebs:

Judge rejects Vick bankruptcy plan, orders new one
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Taking a look behind the figures of Vick’s rejected bankruptcy plan
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Vick will end sentence in posh surroundings
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Even bankruptcy court isn't kind to Vick
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Michael Jackson Auction To Go Ahead, US Judge Rules
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Horse Racing:

Hearing postponed in Magna bankruptcy
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Magna Agrees to Hire Restructuring Officer for Bankruptcy Sale
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Bidder considers tearing down Pimlico
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Health Care:

Chemokine Therapeutics files for chapter 15 bankruptcy
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Johnson Memorial Hospital official to meet with public in three towns
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Valley Health services profitability proves slippery
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Cuts Expected for Medicare Subsidies
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Pacific Laser Eye Centers management group files Chapter 7
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Sports:

Texas Rangers Owner Hicks Sports Group Misses Interest Payments
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Little league falls victim to bankrupt company
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M&A:

Judge to Deal Makers: Start Some Trouble. I Dare You…Please
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Bankers: Too Busy to Work on Mergers?
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Next on the Merger Law Docket: The Human Condition
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Hexion v. Huntsman, Part Deux
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Private Equity:

Buyout Bankruptcies
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Tech:

Spansion bankruptcy ripples across more local balance sheets
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Resorts:

Greenbrier gambling bill closer to passage
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Lehman:

Lehman Brothers’ Dick Fuld Has a New Gig
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Bankruptcy Crimes:

Former socialite pleads guilty
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Labor:

How Companies Are Curbing Labor Costs
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Job Anxiety Sweeps the Office
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Work-life benefits fall victim to slow economy
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Municipalities:

City Tries to Hang On Amid Auto Collapse
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Bloomberg aide says NYC could face GM-scenario
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Vallejo: Mediation likely to fail
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L.A. could lay off 400, union says
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NY Lawmakers Approve Record $131.8 Billion Budget
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Rejecting Aid, One Governor Irks His Own
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Michigan Governor Welcomes Aid
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Aid Weighs on Illinois Mayoral Race
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Finance:

Libor Caps Third Weekly Drop on Signs of Credit Thaw
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When an angel could turn out to be a devil in disguise
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Credit Woes Hit Entrepreneurs
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1Q LBOs: Buyers And Sellers But No Lenders
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Photography:

Private Equity Group Buys Polaroid for $59 Million
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Creditors Object to Polaroid Auction Results
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Eastman Kodak Gets Credit Line of Up to $500M
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Derivatives:

AIG's CDS Hoard: The Great Unraveling - Isn't rocket science, but it is messy and expensive
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Distressed Investing:

Apollo Taps Calpers for Biggest Distressed Leveraged Buyout Investments
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Economy:

Fed officials vow to use all tools to help economy
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Bernanke: Fed programs are working
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Fed Chief ‘Uncomfortable’ With Bailouts
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The Fed’s asset-liability mismatch
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Geithner Says He May Oust Executives
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Rattner Rises as Obama's Mr. Fix-It
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The Coming Obama Jobs Disaster
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US Helps Bailout Recipients Avoid Conditions
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1 in every 10 Americans receive food stamps
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663,000 Jobs Lost in March; Total Tops 5 Million, 13 Million Jobless
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US May Keep Losing Jobs After Unemployment Hit 25-Year High
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Service Industries Contracted in March
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Consumers beginning to make purchases they had postponed
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G20 to bail out bank bondholders
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Bernanke Says Fed Must Retain Flexibility on Credit
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Summers Earned Millions in D.E. Shaw Salary, Bank Speech Fees
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Schumer Chastises Wall Street Friends Amid Ire Over Bailouts
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Estimate of TARP's Cost Increases
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Buffett, champion of bailout, is also a leading beneficiary
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America May Become as Grim as Thatcher’s Britain
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Who Gets Hit When the Wealthy Cut Back
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'Grandfamilies' Come Under Pressure
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A Rich Education for Summers (After Harvard)
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Opinion: From Bubble to Depression?
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Real Estate:

Prime loan default rates double
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Q4 Loan Delinquencies Increase In Nearly Every Category
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Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise
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Foreclosures Spike in Seattle, Miami. L.A. is a ‘Disaster’
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Aid to Borrowers Not Preventing Rising Delinquency
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Discovering Second Liens
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Study Buoys Mortgage Modification
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Foreclosures dragged down home prices in 2008
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Office Vacancy Rate in US Climbs to Four-Year High
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Developer defies recession with LA high-rise plan
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US Treasury Throws a $46 Billion Lifeline to Fannie Mae
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Kissing or Kicking the Fanny of Fannie and Freddie?
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Big Bonuses at Fannie and Freddie Draw Fire
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Fannie, Freddie Quietly Lift Moratorium on Foreclosures
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Judge appeals to utilities as bankruptcy looms for Statler
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Thornburg CEO issues statement on bankruptcy
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A faulty tower
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Halabi May Default on $2 Billion in Moody’s Analysis
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Developer claims bank acted like mobster
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Unfinished homes dot Grand Strand
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Buyers wary as builders struggle
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Lenders walking away from some homes
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Houston home prices fall for first time in 14 years
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1.5 million Americans may lose homes
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Newspapers:

Times Co. Said to Consider Closing Boston Globe
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Union official: Top execs at NYT 'have ruined' paper
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Focus shifts to potential Globe buyers
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Cash Starved NYT Compared to Darfur
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Boston Globe's owner reportedly gives unions an ultimatum
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Threat to Shut Down 'Globe': Just a Negotiating Tactic?
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Globe forced to cut $20M ... or else
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The New York Times Gets Defensive
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Is 'Florida Times-Union' Parent Headed For Bankruptcy Next Week?
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Bankrupt Philly papers seek delay in hearing
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Ex-Philly Anchor Seeks To Sue Columnist, Paper
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Reports: MediaNews Delays Debt Payment
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Star Tribune reporters launch effort to save paper
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Mass Torts:

Bankruptcy trial reveals more details of asbestos contamination
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Autos:

Obama’s Top Auto Industry Troubleshooter
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March New Car Sales Plunge 30 Percent
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New G.M. Chief Doesn’t Rule Out Bankruptcy
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It may seem like the government is taking a heavy hand with the Big Three automakers, but it's fairer than it looks
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What's good for GM is not necessarily what's good for America.
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The Chapter 11 solution
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Is Obama bluffing on bankruptcy ?
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Handicapping the Coming GM Bankruptcy
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After decades of treating its workers miserably, GM got exactly what it deserved
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GM chief has embraced new direction-W.House adviser
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Bankruptcy will be fast if needed: GM CEO
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Will the bankruptcy process be allowed to work?
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Too Big To Fail?
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Bankruptcy looms larger across sector
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Why Motown needs harsher treatment than Wall Street
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Supreme Court's review of Chapter 11 channeling injunctions may affect auto company reorganizations
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Holy Studebaker, Has it Come Down to This?
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Getting Good Mileage from the GM Takeover Plan
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GM Bondholders Will Have To Wait For Better Plan
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Fiat, Chrysler Pushing Debt Holders, Union to Wrap Up Deal
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How Fiat found its sweet spot
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Banks resisting pressure to swap debt for stock
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US talks to Chrysler lenders to cut debt
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Chrysler would gain enthusiastic chief if it links up with Fiat
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How Fiat's Marchionne Can Help Chrysler
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Parts shortage at Chrysler Canada plants a harbinger
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Hopes Of US Auto Recovery In March Premature - Ford Exec
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March Auto Sales: Don't Get Too Excited
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GM's real problem - savvy car buyers
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Delphi, GM and auto task force to hold talks in DC
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Future grim for auto suppliers
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Court sides with Delphi salaried retirees
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Delphi settles with salaried retirees
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Delphi retirees get insurance help but feel weight of sacrifice
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Suppliers Warm to Aid on GM, Chrysler Bankruptcy Risk
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Auto-Supplier Aid May Start in Days, Trade Group Says
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Sputtering economy has auto repair business racing
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Recession credited for record drop in U.S. highway deaths
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Plenty of cars, too few buyers
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Auto parts maker Polymer to close its doors
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Auto sellers, buyers face scary precedent
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600 GM workers change minds on buyouts
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It's Getting Easier to Get a Car Loan
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GM says investors interested in Opel
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General Motors South Africa Will Cut 700 Jobs by June
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UK Car Sales Extend Slide, Prompting Calls for Government Aid
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Saab's Creditors May Seal Company's Fate Monday
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Saab Cars Attracts Interest From 20 ‘Active Parties’
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Toyota’s US Pain Amplified as Drivers Shun Top Lexus Models
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Pensions:

Potential PBGC problem: $13.5 billion GM liability
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$1T Hit to Pensions Could Cost Taxpayers, Workers
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Drops on Concern US Unemployment Will Erode Fuel Demand
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Oil Tankers Storing Record Jet-Fuel, Gasoil Cargoes
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Did the Oil Price Boom of 2008 Cause Crisis?
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SemGroup may have buyer for residual fuels
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Food/Drink:

Empty Tables Threaten Some Restaurant Chains
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GE Capital boosts Bi-Lo DIP
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Tax:

IRS Limited Offer on Unpaid Offshore Taxes Has Attorneys Scrambling
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Education:

Economy forces college grads to pursue Plan B
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Tax:

Islands resent G20’s tax havens crackdown
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UBS grounds senior staff
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Museums:

LA children's museum faces bankruptcy
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National Crime Museum Called a Deadbeat
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Credit Cards:

Credit card debt could be next crisis, experts say
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Religion:

Fairbanks diocese files plan
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Debt Collection:

Debtor `beaten, stripped'
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Debtor Audits:

UST Report on Debtor Audits in 2008
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