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<description><![CDATA[One Laptop Per Child was an ambitious promise to children in the third world. The project has had trouble with its leadership, finances and competitors. Instead of the legacy of education for third-world children, the One Laptop Per Child program has spurred an industry in low-cost laptops for consumers.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Many auto lenders are pulling back incentives to  lease vehicles.  Consumers  don't want to lease trucks and SUVs anymore and the credit crunch isn't helping. Avoiding leasing is actually a good thing, says our personal finance expert.]]></description>
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<title>Tale Of The TiVo: MSNBC, Fox News Worlds Apart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A look at one key hour of cable news coverage of the Democratic convention Monday night reveals less shouting from liberal-leaning MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and company, who soft-pedaled conflict among Democrats. Over at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly remained a full-force conservative Factor.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[As banks tighten lending standards, making home loans harder to come by, a new study shows mortgage fraud is increasing. The Mortgage Asset Research Institute says the number of reported fraud cases jumped 42 percent for loans issued in the first quarter of this year.]]></description>
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<title>Appeals Court OKs Oil Firms&#x27; Billion-Dollar Award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court has affirmed a ruling awarding oil companies a billion dollars for breach of contract. The case involves leases off the California coast that were sold to the oil firms a quarter of a century ago. ]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The retail giant defines produce grown in the same state as "locally grown." But advocates of locally grown food say only produce with short traveling times deserve the label.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Airlines are making changes to their frequent-flier programs, introducing new fees and making it harder to get free tickets. Tim Winship, publisher of frequentflier.com, offers a strategy: Book that award ticket before the price goes up.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The keynote address for the opening night of the Democratic National Convention will come from a woman who might become the country's next first lady, Michelle Obama.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Edward Leftwich loves to show visitors around the Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens. It's a massive 4,000-building mixed-use project that he just finished constructing for a client in Dubai, complete with hundreds of waterways, roads, and parks. But you don't have to fly to Dubai to see it - the miniature city fits inside Leftwich's office in Atlanta.
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<description><![CDATA[The dollar traded mixed against foreign currencies Wednesday as investors weighed rising oil prices with the possibility that inflation is coming under control.
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<description><![CDATA[Not every player in banking is getting clobbered these days. BNP Paribas, which sparked part of the very first global credit-crunch panic when it froze three funds on Aug. 9, 2007, may emerge as the bank least affected by the industry's carnage.
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<description><![CDATA[Even weeks after Brenda Clarke's identity was stolen and thousands of dollars in illegitimate credit card charges were discovered, she is still saddled with extremely high interest rates on her credit cards and a damaged credit score.
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<description><![CDATA[American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market&#8217;s &#8220;ascent,&#8221; in particular&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies--including one owned by Orville Wright--that held patents on the various components that made a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In May, a tiny, exquisite volume went on display at the Morgan Library &#38; Museum: a prayer book made for Queen Claude of France, who was born in the penultimate year of the fifteenth century. Claude, a near-contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who served her at the French court as a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When bad things happen, it&#8217;s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[All the acrimony in the primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has disguised the fact that on most issues they&#8217;re not too far apart. That&#8217;s especially the case when it comes to free trade, which both Obama and Clinton have lambasted over the past few months. At times&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Burmese military government, which hides from its people in the splendid isolation of a jungle capital newly manufactured in the center of the country, told the public, on April 29th, to expect widespread rain and forty-five-mile-an-hour winds on the southern coast. Cyclone Nargis arrived, on&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the current atmosphere of economic tumult, the announcement that Toyota sold a hundred and sixty thousand more cars than General Motors in the first three months of this year might seem like a minor news item. But it may very well signal the end of one of the most&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the wake of a crisis, the natural response of government officials is often to offer up new rules and regulations. So it came as no surprise when, a few weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson proposed a new regulatory scheme for the nation&#8217;s stricken financial markets. What was surprising&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most profitable carmaker, cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent due to a severe downturn in Western markets driven by high fuel prices and a credit crunch.

  
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives at Starbucks Corp  including Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz will not be getting raises anytime soon, after the coffee chain's first-ever quarterly loss as a public company.

  
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<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc  expects weakness in rich-country economies to persist into 2009 but its sales in China will remain strong, Jim Owens, chairman and chief executive of the U.S. construction and mining equipment firm, said on Thursday.

  
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<description><![CDATA[US Airways is eliminating free snacks in coach class on domestic flights.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Diageo, owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker, says it faces a "challenging" market after seeing little change in annual profits.]]></description>
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<title>Management shake-up at Fannie Mae</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US mortgage giant announces a shake-up of top executives in an attempt to restore confidence.]]></description>
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<title>Taylor Wimpey hit by massive loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A mortgage rescue scheme and councils buying unused land feature in a Liberal Democrat plan to revive the housing market.]]></description>
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<title>M&#x26;S suspends pay &#x27;whistleblower&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Marks & Spencer suspends a member of staff who told the press about its plans to cut redundancy payments.]]></description>
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<title>Ringing the changes - BT puts phone boxes out for &#x27;adoption&#x27;</title>
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<title>Oil bonanza?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prospectors scour the UK countryside for black gold]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Boom turns to bust for Spain's property market]]></description>
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<title>Windfall profits?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Could a windfall tax on oil companies work?]]></description>
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<title>Russian bear</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How UK could be affected if tensions with Russia grow]]></description>
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<title>E.ON to cut 1,800 jobs in Germany</title>
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<description><![CDATA[E.ON confirms it is cutting 1,800 sales jobs as it closes two-thirds of its German service centres.]]></description>
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<title>Barbie firm awarded Bratz payout</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mattel wins a multi-million dollar payout in  a copyright court case against the maker of the popular Bratz dolls, MGA Entertainment.]]></description>
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<title>Rise in US durable goods orders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New orders for long-lasting US manufactured goods rise by a surprise 1.4% in July, led by a big rise in aircraft sales.]]></description>
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<title>iPhone ad rapped as &#x27;misleading&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Advertising Standards Authority calls an iPhone advert "misleading" for saying all of the web is available on the phone.]]></description>
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<title>Challenge to MoD job plan fails</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A union fails in its legal challenge to a restructuring at the Ministry of Defence which it says could cost 5,000 jobs.]]></description>
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<title>Paddy Power profit warning</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Irish bookmaker Paddy Power lowers its 2008 profit target, blaming key sporting results and the weak economy.]]></description>
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<title>Euro gains as dollar rally stalls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The dollar loses some ground against the euro, a day after hitting a six-month high against the single currency.]]></description>
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<title>S&#x26;N purchase hits Heineken profit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Heineken reports a slight fall in half-year profits as a result of the cost of buying UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle.]]></description>
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<title>World poverty &#x27;more widespread&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The World Bank says there are more poor people in the world  than previously thought, with one in four in poverty.]]></description>
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<title>Japanese car making picks up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Global output by Japan's top three carmakers picked up in July, reflecting strong demand despite the global economic slowdown.]]></description>
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<title>Antofagasta sees profits rise 15%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mining giant Antofagasta reports a 15% rise in half-year profits as high copper prices offset higher production costs.]]></description>
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<title>US interest rates &#x27;not too low&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A flagging housing market and rising unemployment meant US interest rates were held, Federal Reserve minutes show.]]></description>
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<title>Profits rise 51% at China Mobile</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone network, sees quarterly profits rise 51% thanks to strong subscriber growth.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Latest official figures show the number of UK households with internet access rose to 16.5 million this year.
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<title>UK mortgage lending &#x27;levels off&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mortgage lending by major banks flattened out in July but the amount borrowed for day-to-day spending slowed, figures show.]]></description>
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<title>Call for new review of home packs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A review of Home Information Packs is needed during the current housing market slowdown, according to an estate agents' group.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Buy-to-let investors have been hit by the mortgage squeeze alongside other homeowners, new figures suggest.]]></description>
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<title>Buildings &#x27;razed to avoid taxes&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Buildings are being knocked down as businesses seek to avoid tax on empty properties, a government regeneration chief warns.]]></description>
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<title>US in &#x27;$4bn cotton row sanction&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US may face $4bn in annual trade sanctions for failing to scrap illegal subsidies paid to US cotton growers, a report suggests.]]></description>
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<title>Oil price fall lifts US consumers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US consumer confidence gets a boost in August from falling oil prices, research suggests.]]></description>
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<title>Oil price rises on hurricane fear</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The price of oil climbs as Tropical Storm Gustav heads towards the Gulf of Mexico - home to many offshore energy installations.]]></description>
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<title>US house prices &#x27;see record fall&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[US house prices were down a record 15.4% in the April and June quarter compared with a year ago, a report says.]]></description>
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<title>Power firm wins new Olympic deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Glasgow-based company wins a deal to provide power for the construction of the London 2012 Olympic Village.]]></description>
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<title>Write-down hits Foster&#x27;s profits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Australian brewer and winemaker Foster's says profits have fallen 88% after it slashed the value of its wine assets.]]></description>
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<title>Strong demand boosts Rio profits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mining giant Rio Tinto sees its half-year earnings more than double thanks to strong demand and high commodity prices.]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines for financial journalists</title>
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<title>Virtual worlds: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lively, Google&#8217;s virtual world, has been a flopIT SOUNDED like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by making them accessible through a web browser. Millions of people log into virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life every day, but they require special software and their complexity can be daunting to newcomers. So Google&#8217;s launch of Lively, in July, seemed to have great potential. But in the weeks since it opened its virtual doors, Lively has remained surprisingly lifeless, hosting a dwindling number of users and prompting a string of negative reviews.Lively is a simple environment, amounting to little more than a series of 3-D chat rooms. To enter, you must first download and install a plug-in for your web-browser. You can then choose from a list of rooms, the most popular of which are (inevitably) themed around sex and dating. And although some popular rooms&#8212;&#8220;Love Sweet Love&#8221; and &#8220;Sexy Babes Club&#8221;&#8212;have had thousands of visitors, the number quickly drops into the double digits further down the list. Hardly anyone is using Lively. ...]]></description>
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<title>Dealing with the downturn: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Raising prices in straitened times calls for careful planningA COUPLE of years ago General Motors (GM), America&#8217;s biggest carmaker, swore it would no longer offer &#8220;employee discounts&#8221; on its vehicles. These large price cuts shrank bloated inventories, but they left buyers thinking that GM&#8217;s cars were worth far less than their list prices. Scrapping the discounts was part of ailing GM&#8217;s efforts to cure itself. But on August 19th the company reversed gear and reintroduced them, for a limited period, on nearly all its 2008 models and some 2009 ones.Although the move smacks of desperation, GM is not the only firm hoping that discounting can help it weather a sluggish global economy. On August 20th eBay, an online-auction site, said it would reduce the fees it charges sellers who post goods for sale on its site at a fixed price. The temptation in a downturn is to let prices slide to protect or increase market share. However, this approach can backfire if it triggers a price-cutting spiral. Moreover, managers often overestimate the extra sales that lower prices generate, so companies may be left worse off than before the cuts. That may help explain why a number of firms have been raising their prices, not cutting them&#8212;a trend that has contributed to a resurgence of inflation. ...]]></description>
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<title>Jaguar Land Rover: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite hard times for the makers of big cars, JLR is happy under its new ownerWHEN Ratan Tata claimed ownership of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) from Ford in early June, one of the first visits he made was to the Jaguar heritage museum at the British firm&#8217;s old site near Birmingham. The 71-year-old Mr Tata recalled that his father had bought one of its first XK120 sports cars in the late 1940s. Not only was the museum able to dig out his father&#8217;s order from the archives, it also took the chairman of the Indian industrial conglomerate for a spin in a similar car. It was the kind of personal touch that both the tradition-steeped car firm, and its new owner, hope will characterise their relations.Those relations may undergo an early test. When Tata Motors bought JLR for about $2 billion, it looked like a good deal. Thanks to Ford&#8217;s transformation of Land Rover, JLR had made profits of $650m in 2007. With its well received new mid-sized saloon, the XF, even Jaguar, a perennial lossmaker under Ford, was close to turning the corner into profit. In the first quarter of this year JLR rang up profits of $421m.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Business and water: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows industry needs oil. Now people are worrying about water, too&#8220;WATER is the oil of the 21st century,&#8221; declares Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow, a chemical company. Like oil, water is a critical lubricant of the global economy. And as with oil, supplies of water&#8212;at least, the clean, easily accessible sort&#8212;are coming under enormous strain because of the growing global population and an emerging middle-class in Asia that hankers for the water-intensive life enjoyed by people in the West.Oil prices have fallen from their recent peaks, but concerns about the availability of freshwater show no sign of abating. Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, estimates that global water consumption is doubling every 20 years, which it calls an &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; rate of growth. Water, unlike oil, has no substitute. Climate change is altering the patterns of freshwater availability in complex ways that can lead to more frequent and severe droughts. ...]]></description>
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<title>Car taxes in China: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[China finds a way to cut car imports without offending the WTOLESS than a month after losing its first legal dispute with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China has introduced a new tax that will achieve much of what it originally wanted, only by another route. Moreover, it is a &#8220;green&#8221; tax. Who could object to that?For the past few years China has imposed a special 25% tariff on imported car parts, rather than the usual 10%, if the parts made up more than half of the value of a vehicle. (Imported new cars are also subject to a 25% tariff.) This was to encourage foreign carmakers to use more local suppliers and reduce imports. But America, the European Union and Canada argued that the tariff was against WTO rules. In July the WTO, based in Geneva, agreed. ...]]></description>
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<title>Law firms: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Should you buy shares in a law firm?WERE it possible to buy shares in big British and American law firms, they would appear to be attractive investments. They boast double-digit revenue growth at a time when many companies are suffering. Baker &amp; McKenzie, one of America&#8217;s biggest firms, has just announced a 20% increase in annual revenues, which exceeded $2 billion for the first time. Britain&#8217;s top four firms have reported revenues up by an average of 15% this year, with all four passing the GBP1 billion ($1.85 billion) mark.Investing in law firms is more than just a pipe dream. A change in British law, introduced last year, enables law firms to use business structures other than private partnerships, and allows for external investment and initial public offerings (IPOs). Law firms will have to wait for a new regulator, the Legal Services Board, but everything is due to be in place by 2011.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Face value: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The career of Subramanian Ramadorai of Tata Consultancy Services parallels the rise of India&#8217;s software industryWHEN Subramanian Ramadorai joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the Indian software company he now leads, in 1972, computers were bulky and temperamental contraptions, in need of assembly, installation and constant repair. He still winces at the memory of loose contacts on a computer&#8217;s backplane and components that died as they were being tested or &#8220;burnt in&#8221; (a phenomenon known as &#8220;infant mortality&#8221;). Mr Ramadorai, who learnt mathematics at his father&#8217;s knee and earned degrees in physics, electronics and computer science, was not above picking up a screwdriver or pliers. At TCS, a colleague recalls, &#8220;You had to work with your own hands.&#8221; You had to bash metal before you could crunch code.Mr Ramadorai&#8217;s career at TCS parallels the rise of the industry itself. The Tata group first ventured into computers in 1968, serving its own companies with second-hand IBMs and an early ICL machine. Forty years later, India&#8217;s first software company is also its biggest, earning revenues of $5.7 billion in the year to March. Today it is difficult to appreciate the audacity and improbability of its success. In the 1970s India had a shortage of foreign exchange and an abundance of labour. The government did not make it easy for companies to spend precious dollars importing computers, which many suspected would only displace jobs. Even calculating the tariff was a computational feat. On the new Burroughs computer that TCS bought in 1974, it paid a tariff of 101.25%, including import duty, auxiliary duty, countervailing duty and a levy to help pay for the war in Bangladesh. ...]]></description>
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<title>Food retailing in Europe: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany&#8217;s &#8220;hard discount&#8221; model of supermarket retailing is spreading in EuropeIT IS as far from the charming ideal of French farmers&#8217; markets and small family-owned shops as you could imagine: strip lights glare down on a narrow range of products in ugly packaging, displayed in cardboard boxes piled on the floor and on low shelves. But sales are booming at the new Lidl discount supermarket in south-west Paris. Previously, the German chain stuck to the suburbs, where poorer folk live, says Fatouh Mourad, the store&#8217;s manager. But rising food prices and widespread concern about &#8220;pouvoir d&#8217;achat&#8221;, or purchasing power, in France, has given Lidl the confidence to push inside the city&#8217;s limits.As economic prospects worsen across Europe, discounters such as Lidl&#8212;and Aldi, another German chain&#8212;are taking market share. They generally charge some 30-50% less for groceries than ordinary supermarkets. In France, according to TNS, a research firm, discounters increased their market share to 11.2% in the second quarter of this year, up from 10.5% a year ago, whereas the share fell at Carrefour, the world&#8217;s second-largest retailer. In Belgium a local discounter, Colruyt, is gaining share at the expense of Carrefour and other pricier chains. Dutch shoppers too are trading down to discounters, says TNS, and in Britain, where Aldi and Lidl struggled for years, they are now the fastest-growing grocers. ...]]></description>
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<title>Dealing with the downturn: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As belts tighten, marketing teams are finding ways to do more with lessONCE the glamour and the glitz of the Olympics have faded, American marketing bosses will face a sobering reality. Although America&#8217;s advertising market is still forecast to grow this year&#8212;to $285 billion, up from $280 billion in 2007, according to Magna Global, a marketing-services firm&#8212;that is largely due to the fillip that it is getting from the games and the upcoming presidential election. When they are over, the outlook for advertising, and for the marketing budgets that pay for it, is bleak. Several industries, including banking, telecoms and consumer goods, have already made deep cuts in their marketing budgets, which are typically one of the first areas to be chopped in a downturn. In response, marketing folk are looking for ways to save money and to get more bang for their remaining bucks. ...]]></description>
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<title>Pay TV in Africa: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A newcomer is shaking up satellite television in AfricaWITH only 14% of families owning a television, sub-Saharan Africans are in little danger of turning into couch potatoes. But the region&#8217;s economy is doing better than it has in decades, and many countries have a small emerging middle-class eager to spend their new wealth. That, at least, is the calculation of GTV, a satellite-television company created just over a year ago. So far it has signed up more than 100,000 customers in 20 countries&#8212;which, it reckons, translates into 1.25m regular viewers. This week it launched its first francophone service, in Congo and Cameroon, to be followed shortly by Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. GTV expects to be operating in 36 African countries by the end of the year. This is shaking up the quasi-monopolies that Canal+, a French operator, and DStv, a subsidiary of Naspers, a South African media giant, have enjoyed for years. With few people able to afford a television, let alone a satellite subscription, pay TV remains limited to less than 1% of the African market. In Lingwala, a poor neighbourhood in Congo&#8217;s capital, Kinshasa, only ordinary TV aerials can be seen sticking out of the houses lining the unpaved streets.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Airlines: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Falling oil prices have lifted airlines&#8217; share prices. Is the crisis over?SEVEN of America&#8217;s biggest airlines chalked up combined losses of $5.9 billion in the second quarter of the year, but this week their share prices continued their month-long, gravity-defying rebound. Fuelling the new optimism was a report from Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, suggesting that much of the troubled industry could return to profit as early as 2009. Could the tempest of rising costs and sagging demand that so recently seemed to jeopardise many airlines&#8217; survival already be blowing itself out?The cause of the change in sentiment is hardly a mystery. When crude-oil futures nearly touched $150 a barrel in mid-July, the airlines were braced for the gravest crisis in their history&#8212;something far worse and longer lasting than the aftermath of September 11th 2001. But since then oil futures have fallen steadily, hitting $112.31 on August 12th. The United States Airlines Index has become almost a mirror image of the price of jet fuel, climbing 13% this month while the price of fuel fell by 12%. ...]]></description>
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<title>Face value: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Andrew Witty of GlaxoSmithKline has a three-part prescription for the pharmaceuticals giantIT IS a rare company boss, let alone one who has just got the top job, that can get away with likening his firm&#8217;s culture to a police state. But Andrew Witty, the new boss of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British pharmaceuticals giant, somehow manages to pull it off. He invokes that analogy&#8212;tentatively, to be fair&#8212;to explain the cultural transformation he wants to see at GSK: away from today&#8217;s excessively regimented, rule-based approach towards the &#8220;utopia&#8221; of a simplified, values-based culture that trusts employees to do the right thing.Mr Witty gets away with it in part because he is amiable. He is certainly very different from his abrasive predecessor, Jean-Pierre Garnier, who retired in May after a tumultuous term as chief executive. Mr Witty has already set the tone for a more open style of management. Whereas J.P., as his predecessor was known, often seemed arrogant, Mr Witty began his tenure with a listening tour. J.P. controversially insisted on living in Philadelphia; Mr Witty is not only based at GSK&#8217;s headquarters in London, but he even plans to move his office next to the staff canteen so he can be more accessible. ...]]></description>
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<title>Mining: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A young multinational mining giant gets a taste of multinational criticismONCE a princely game reserve, the Niyamgiri hills (pictured) in Orissa, one of India&#8217;s poorest states, are now known for a richer quarry: bauxite, from which aluminium is made. On August 8th, after a 22-month delay, India&#8217;s Supreme Court gave the Indian arm of Vedanta Resources, a metals and minerals giant, permission to mine the ore, which will feed the firm&#8217;s alumina refinery nearby. The decision was condemned by international campaigning groups which say the project will rob tribal people of their way of life. As Vedanta has found, these groups can mine a controversy with the same determination as the firm can mine a hilltop.Vedanta has its roots in India, where its founder was born and raised and where most of its operations remain. But it has turned itself into a global company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a spot in the FTSE 100 index. Its new reach allows it to tap investors in one part of the world and mineral deposits in another. But it also exposes it to critics from Orissa to Oslo. ...]]></description>
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<title>Face value: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What Kosaku Shima, Japan&#8217;s most popular salaryman, says about Japanese businessJAPANESE bosses are mostly an elderly lot. So it seemed that a new generation had taken the reins of corporate Japan when Kosaku Shima was appointed president of Hatsushiba Goyo, a conglomerate, in June. At just 60, Mr Shima is the best known and most beloved businessman in Japan. His ascent from lowly salaryman to lofty shacho (president) traces corporate Japan&#8217;s rise in the 1980s, its descent into the &#8220;lost decade&#8221; of the 1990s and its subsequent tentative recovery. News of Mr Shima&#8217;s appointment was broadcast on television and splashed across the country&#8217;s newspapers, and the bosses of Japan&#8217;s biggest firms lined up to lavish praise on him. &#8220;He is a man of principle,&#8221; said Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power. Part of Mr Shima&#8217;s appeal, in addition to his timelessly youthful looks, is his respect for the Japanese virtues of hard work, self-sacrifice, loyalty and modesty. &#8220;My position is a result of the support of the people around me,&#8221; he said when he was named to the post. Despite his modesty, Mr Shima has been the subject of two television series and a film. He endorses snacks and beer, so that pictures of him, perpetually raising a glass, are plastered across Japan. Ladies cannot help but throw themselves before him. He is rather like a Japanese James Bond who swapped 007 for an MBA. And Mr Shima resembles Mr Bond in another respect: he is a fictional character. ...]]></description>
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<title>The American car market: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Will the Big Three&#8217;s cash last long enough for them to fix themselves?WITH each successive month the plight of Detroit&#8217;s Big Three manufacturers&#8212;General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler&#8212;becomes a little more desperate and their eventual fate less certain. July&#8217;s figures for light-vehicle sales in America, released last week, were unremittingly awful. Seasonally adjusted and annualised, sales fell to 12.5m from 15.3m last year. As in previous months, sales of pickups and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), down by 31% year on year, were worst hit. But even car sales, hampered by supply shortages of the fuel-sipping compact models Americans now suddenly want, fell by 7.4%. Reduced access to credit also had an impact, as carmakers become increasingly reluctant to finance lease agreements. Typically, at the end of a three-year lease, a vehicle is returned to the manufacturer which then disposes of it, usually profitably, at auction. But the prices being paid for used trucks are down by about 20% compared with last year. Chrysler Financial is losing $5,000 on every truck it takes back. At the end of July Chrysler stunned its dealers by saying it was getting out of leasing entirely. Ford and GM have not yet gone as far, but they are scaling back leasing in an effort to reduce future liabilities. ...]]></description>
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<title>Business in China: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[How much will rising shipping costs hurt Chinese manufacturing?ON LAND, high oil prices have ended America&#8217;s love affair with sport-utility vehicles, forcing carmakers to revamp their product line-ups. In the air, sky-high fuel costs have prompted airlines to raise ticket prices and cut routes. What about at sea? Could rising shipping costs scupper China&#8217;s export boom?This question has been much discussed since Jeff Rubin and Benjamin Tal of CIBC, a Canadian bank, issued a memo a few weeks ago saying that a reversal of the great migration of manufacturing operations to China might already be under way. The cost of shipping a standard 40-foot container from Shanghai to America&#8217;s east coast, for example, has jumped from $3,000 in 2000 to about $8,000 today. The extra cost of transporting goods halfway around the world, Messrs Rubin and Tal wrote, is wiping out the often slim margins of Chinese exporters. What is more, if oil and shipping prices stay high, many Western companies that now outsource their manufacturing to China might decide that it makes more sense to shift production closer to their customers at home.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Alitalia: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to put together an Italian solution for Alitalia&#8220;WE WILL perform another miracle and will offer Italy a profitable national airline.&#8221; That was the promise from Silvio Berlusconi, Italy&#8217;s prime minister, this week as his government postponed the announcement of a long-awaited plan to rescue Alitalia, the country&#8217;s lossmaking flag-carrier. The &#8220;miracle&#8221; was to have been discussed at a board meeting on August 8th and revealed soon afterwards, but will now be a secret until September. The stated reason is to avoid disrupting the summer holidays with strikes and cancelled flights. But many people reckon the plan is being delayed because it is controversial and, in some ways, incomplete.Alitalia is in such dire straits that only a recent loan of &#8364;300m ($480m) from the government is keeping it flying. Air France-KLM made an offer for Alitalia in March, but withdrew its bid after failing to reach agreement with Alitalia&#8217;s unions&#8212;and after Mr Berlusconi said during his election campaign that selling Italy&#8217;s flag-carrier to a French rival would be unacceptable. ...]]></description>
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<title>Dealing with the downturn: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tough times are producing some surprising business bedfellowsCOMPETITORS often find it hard to be civil to one another in public. But few rivalries have been as nasty as that between two New York newspapers, the New York Post and the Daily News. The &#8220;Daily Snooze&#8221;, as the Post dubs its rival, takes great pleasure in rubbishing its arch-enemy, and vice versa. Scurrilous gossip about the Post&#8217;s owner, Rupert Murdoch, is avidly reported by the Daily News; its proprietor, Mortimer Zuckerman, has been the target of less than flattering coverage in the Post. And the two titles like to bicker over which has the bigger circulation.Yet behind the scenes executives from both papers are talking about working together in some areas, such as distribution, in an effort to slash costs. Nor are they the only rivals thinking the previously unthinkable. With the global economy on the rocks, businesses everywhere are desperately searching for ways to save money or boost revenue&#8212;even if they require collaboration with the enemy. ...]]></description>
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<title>MBAs and the economy: </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business-school applications pick up as the economy slowsANYONE wanting further proof that the world economy is in trouble need look no further than the nearest business school. Many schools are hailing a bumper year for their full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes, which are popular with executives looking to hone their moneymaking skills while sitting out a downturn. Worryingly for those betting on a swift economic recovery, business schools reckon that next year could yield an even bigger crop of applicants.During the previous downswing the percentage of full-time MBA programmes reporting higher applications soared as tech stars switched to textbooks (see chart). The pace slowed as the economy improved, but then picked up again. Preliminary figures from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), an international organisation of business schools, show that 77% of full-time programmes have reported higher demand for places this year. ...]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/28/Toyota_scales_back_2009_projection/UPI-87921219903358/">
<title>Toyota scales back 2009 projection</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/28/Toyota_scales_back_2009_projection/UPI-87921219903358/</link>
<description><![CDATA[TOKYO,  Aug. 28 (UPI) --  Toyota Motor Corp. will sell hundreds of thousands fewer vehicles next year than it had projected earlier, the Japanese automaker said Thursday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Corn_soybeans_head_Midwest_grain_report/UPI-83781219885187/">
<title>Corn, soybeans head Midwest grain report</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Corn_soybeans_head_Midwest_grain_report/UPI-83781219885187/</link>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  Corn and soybeans rallied to finish up for the day on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/UPI_NewsTrack_Business/UPI-14031219876251/">
<title>UPI NewsTrack Business</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/UPI_NewsTrack_Business/UPI-14031219876251/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Stocks get boost, crude oil rally cools ... Crude oil tops $118 in another slow day ... SEC looks toward international switch ... Durable sales up, expert sees problems...  News from United Press International.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Crude_oil_tops_118_in_another_slow_day/UPI-70981219836935/">
<title>Crude oil tops $118 in another slow day </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Crude_oil_tops_118_in_another_slow_day/UPI-70981219836935/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  Crude oil prices closed at $118.27 a barrel Wednesday as the oil rally cooled a bit despite storm concerns in the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/SEC_looks_toward_international_switch/UPI-54541219872101/">
<title>SEC looks toward international switch </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/SEC_looks_toward_international_switch/UPI-54541219872101/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to seek public comment on requiring American companies to switch to international accounting.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Stocks_get_boost_oil_rally_cools/UPI-66141219846468/">
<title>Stocks get boost, oil rally cools</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Stocks_get_boost_oil_rally_cools/UPI-66141219846468/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  A strengthening financial sector helped boost U.S. stock indexes Wednesday as the storm-nervous crude oil rally cooled.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/San_Francisco_sets_up_commuter_plan/UPI-13691219864323/">
<title>San Francisco sets up commuter plan</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/San_Francisco_sets_up_commuter_plan/UPI-13691219864323/</link>
<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has signed an ordinance requiring commuter benefit options for most  employees.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Four-state_Waffle_group_seeks_bankruptcy/UPI-88401219862821/">
<title>Four-state Waffle group seeks bankruptcy</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Four-state_Waffle_group_seeks_bankruptcy/UPI-88401219862821/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  The head of a Tennessee company that owns 113 Waffle House restaurants in four states says an inquiry is under way into his chief accountant's departure.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Durable_sales_up_expert_sees_problems/UPI-67481219848544/">
<title>Durable sales up, expert sees problems </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Durable_sales_up_expert_sees_problems/UPI-67481219848544/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  The U.S. Commerce Department reports durable goods orders were up 1.3 percent in July, reportedly confounding some experts who expected less.]]></description>
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<title>UPI NewsTrack Business</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/UPI_NewsTrack_Business/UPI-81791219850156/</link>
<description><![CDATA[   Stocks get boost from durable report.. Durable report surprises Wall Street... Crude oil advances past $118 a barrel... Southwest Airlines to cut 196 flights... News from United Press International.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Southwest_Airlines_to_cut_196_flights/UPI-23791219842074/">
<title>Southwest Airlines to cut 196 flights </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Southwest_Airlines_to_cut_196_flights/UPI-23791219842074/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  Southwest Airlines, the most profitable U.S. airliner, announced Wednesday it would drop more than 196 daily flights on Jan. 11.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Four_buyers_bid_in_Daewoo_deal/UPI-15701219838433/">
<title>Four buyers bid in Daewoo deal</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/27/Four_buyers_bid_in_Daewoo_deal/UPI-15701219838433/</link>
<description><![CDATA[SEOUL,  Aug. 27 (UPI) --  Four major suitors have bid for a majority share of South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding in a deal possibly worth $6.5 billion, company officials say.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/UPI_NewsTrack_Business/UPI-89141219797904/">
<title>UPI NewsTrack Business</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/UPI_NewsTrack_Business/UPI-89141219797904/</link>
<description><![CDATA[                         
 Stocks in check, oil prices rise during storm watch... Oil prices climbing amid hurricane watch... U.S. household income rises again...Job cut surge seen possible for early 2009  News from UPI.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Grains_finish_down_Tuesday/UPI-75021219796071/">
<title>Grains finish down Tuesday</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Grains_finish_down_Tuesday/UPI-75021219796071/</link>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Major grain markets all slipped slightly lower on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Oil_prices_climbing_amid_hurricane_watch/UPI-88151219750922/">
<title>Oil prices climbing amid hurricane watch </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Oil_prices_climbing_amid_hurricane_watch/UPI-88151219750922/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Crude oil prices resumed their slow advance Tuesday as traders kept an eye on the weather in the Gulf of Mexico and Hurricane Gustav.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Stocks_show_little_change_oil_passes_116/UPI-34291219759823/">
<title>Stocks show little change; oil passes $116</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Stocks_show_little_change_oil_passes_116/UPI-34291219759823/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  U.S. stock indexes were  pretty much held in check by a number of issues Tuesday while crude oil prices climbed amid worries about Hurricane Gustav.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Job_cut_surge_seen_possible_for_early_2009/UPI-24701219779258/">
<title>Job cut surge seen possible for early 2009</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Job_cut_surge_seen_possible_for_early_2009/UPI-24701219779258/</link>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Uncharacteristic job cuts over the summer could result in the biggest post-Labor Day downsizing in six years, a job consulting firm predicted Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Canadian_unemployment_payout_up_in_June/UPI-63691219775408/">
<title>Canadian unemployment payout up in June</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Canadian_unemployment_payout_up_in_June/UPI-63691219775408/</link>
<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Canada paid out $732.5 million to unemployed workers in June, a 0.5 percent monthly increase, the Statistics Canada agency reported Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Survey_indicates_consumer_confidence_up/UPI-39351219773689/">
<title>Survey indicates consumer confidence up</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Survey_indicates_consumer_confidence_up/UPI-39351219773689/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  U.S.consumer confidence improved in August with expectations far ahead of the "present situation" index, the Conference Board reported Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/More_reported_data_breaches_this_year/UPI-16211219770643/">
<title>More reported data breaches this year</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/More_reported_data_breaches_this_year/UPI-16211219770643/</link>
<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  U.S. businesses, universities and government agencies have reported more thefts of personal data so far this year than in all of 2007, a report says.  ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/UPI_NewsTrack-Business/UPI-71021219768045/">
<title>UPI NewsTrack-Business</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/UPI_NewsTrack-Business/UPI-71021219768045/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Stocks calm, oil gets push... index reports record home price decline... U.S. household income rises again... V-8 engine on way out in new cars ... Business news from UPI.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/US_household_income_rises_again/UPI-76781219765100/">
<title>U.S. household income rises again  </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/US_household_income_rises_again/UPI-76781219765100/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Median U.S. household income climbed 1.3 percent between 2006 and 2007, reaching $50,233, the U.S. Census Bureau reported in Washington  Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Index_reports_record_home_price_decline/UPI-67021219763674/">
<title>Index reports record home price decline </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Index_reports_record_home_price_decline/UPI-67021219763674/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  A closely watched gauge of U.S. home prices Tuesday reported a record price drop in June but the declines were seen to be moderating.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/V-8_engine_on_way_out_in_new_cars/UPI-16741219760235/">
<title>V-8 engine on way out in new cars</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/V-8_engine_on_way_out_in_new_cars/UPI-16741219760235/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  The powerful, legendary V-8 engine is pretty much being relegated to history except for a few cases, U.S. auto industry reports say.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Rush_on_to_install_renewal_energy_units/UPI-70901219752578/">
<title>Rush on to install renewal energy units</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2008/08/26/Rush_on_to_install_renewal_energy_units/UPI-70901219752578/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK,  Aug. 26 (UPI) --  Developers and customers in the United States are reported rushing to install renewable energy projects by year's end to qualify for federal tax credits.]]></description>
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