May 18, 2013
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Associated Press Demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington to protest the court's Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action lawsuit decision. For years, the world's largest retailer has tried to repair a reputation that's been damaged by decades of criticism and legal troubles. In April 2012, allegations that Wal-Mart paid bribes to officials in Mexico threatened to derail Wal-Mart's attempts to improve its image.
Wal-Mart’s reputation takes another beating
NEW YORK — In business, you’re only as good as your last good deed. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, in recent years has tried to repair a reputation that’s been damaged by decades of cr...
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Associated Press Wayne County Clerk Glenda Young (second from right) assists a group of "lease hounds" from Texas as they pore over land records in search of mineral rights holders at the courthouse in Fairfield, Ill. Young says agents working at the courthouse include representatives from oil companies in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Oklahoma. 
Drilling prospects bring land rush to Illinois
McLEANSBORO, Ill. — It’s not a festival or the 19th century architecture that’s drawing the late-model cars from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania to the downtown square in this tiny, sou...
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Associated Press A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals in April in the mountains in the department of Trou Du Nord, Haiti.
Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom
TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to relieving centuries of pove...
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Apple addition to Dow would have set market record long ago
Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world’s best-known stock index. So don’t they deserve each other? Consider this: If Apple had been ad...
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Associated Press A house for sale sign stands beside a Hollywood, Fla., street as cars drive past. Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober is now using a software program that makes robocalls to businesses to discourage posting the signs.
Florida city uses robocalls to fight nuisance signs
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The cheap signs smashed into lawns and along the corners of busy intersections are hard to miss. “We Buy Junk Cars!” ‘’Cash for Your House!” ‘’Computer Repair.” The eyesores have ...
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Recent changes to the Dow Jones industrial average
Here are the most recent changes made to the 30 components of the Dow: n June 8, 2009: Ailing Citigroup and bankrupt General Motors are removed from the Dow. Travelers, a major insurer, and Cisc...
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Recent changes to the Dow Jones industrial average
The Dow Jones industrial average has evolved continually since it was introduced in 1896. The original 12 “smokestack” companies included names like American Cotton Oil, Tennessee Coal & Iron, Nati...
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JOHN WRIGHT | The Sun Michele Luksic, a personal banker, assists a customer Thursday in the lobby of Paducah Bank's Mid City branch.
Accounting for the unbanked
Unbanked and underbanked are familiar terms to local financial institutions. Drawing in people without bank accounts, or further ingraining customers with a detached banking relationship, is a f...
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Biographical info on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson
Scott Thompson Bio AGE: 54 HOMETOWN: Boston EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in accounting PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Hired as Yahoo CEO in January. Became president of eBay’s PayPal busines...
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