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Associated Press The House Small Business Committee, led by chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., has recently approved eight bills that are aimed at making it easier for small businesses to win contracts with the agencies throughout the federal government.
Small biz contracting leads committee agenda
WASHINGTON — It sounds like a gold mine for small businesses: The more than half a trillion dollars that the federal government pays companies each year for all kinds of equipment and services. But...
Mar 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Consumers hold onto rosy outlook in March
NEW YORK — Americans are holding onto a rosier view of the U.S. economy as they focus on the good in a flood of mixed economic news. Gas prices are up, but the stock market is, too. Home prices ...
Mar 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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GE engine faulted for crash that killed nine
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon jury ruled Tuesday that a problem with an engine was responsible for the 2008 crash of a helicopter that killed nine firefighters during a wildfire in Northern California...
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Milestones in the price of gasoline
Milestones in the price of gasoline. Price is the nationwide average for a gallon of unleaded regular. Firsts n September 1979: First monthly average above $1. n May 19, 2004: Tops $2 fo...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service The MSC Fabiola arrives in San Francisco Bay as it's met by a San Francisco Bar pilot boat on March 21 in San Francisco. The 1,201-foot-long ship is the largest container ship to pay call to a port in North America.
A new era in shipping
LOS ANGELES — The largest cargo container ship to ever dock in the Americas made a fog-shrouded first voyage into the Port of Long Beach on Friday, sending a message to competitors that Southern Ca...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Archery, long on the fringes, is now regaining cachet thanks to films such as "The Hunger Games" and the upcoming Olympics.
Movie magic makes archery cool again
LOS ANGELES — Archery had long been relegated to the realm of men in tights, apples atop heads and junior high summer camp. Then came “The Hunger Games.” The hit young-adult trilogy debuted i...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Federal extended benefits to unemployed end
The state’s jobless rate falling has a downside for almost 6,200 of Kentucky’s unemployed who receive federal unemployment extended benefits. Beginning April 7, the federal extended benefits wil...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press When Robert Collins returned to his job as a security guard with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in 2010, he was asked for his Facebook login and password during a reinstatement interview, purportedly so the agency could check for any gang affiliations.
Potential bosses ask job seekers for passwords
SEATTLE — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Fac...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Erick Thohir, co-owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers (seated), pause with Rick Hess (left), and Robert Stanley, co-founders of Evolution Media Capital, at Creative Artists Agency on March 6 in Century City, Calif.
Investment bank EMC becomes force in sports, entertainment
LOS ANGELES — It was a tense negotiation. Fox Sports and ESPN were paying about $54 million a year for the TV rights to Pac-12 Conference games. The Pac-12 guys wanted five times that. And a 12-yea...
Mar 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mr. Coffee developer dies in Ohio
CLEVELAND — Samuel L. Glazer, co-owner of the company that revolutionized American mornings with the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89. The funeral home that handled the arrangemen...
Mar 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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