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Cherry industry not just baking pies
Feb 3 2007 10:29PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The very mention of tart cherries can evoke pleasant thoughts: grandma in her apron, lifting a freshly baked pie from the oven on a long-ago summer day, back when calories and trans fats didn't seem to matter.
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Aramark CEO gets $1B reward from buyout
Feb 3 2007 10:13PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The first time Joseph Neubauer took Aramark Corp. private in 1984, the deal was worth $889 million. When he and other managers led a leveraged buyout of the nation's largest food services company a second time, the price tag zoomed to $6.24 billion.
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Dell e-mail details corporate reforms
Feb 3 2007 9:43PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - In a memo to Dell Inc. employees days after returning as chief executive officer, Michael Dell said the beleaguered computer maker is quashing bonuses for 2006 and reducing managers to help cut costs and steer the company back toward dominance.
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Top exec says GM will stay the course
Feb 3 2007 8:48PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - General Motors Corp. won't budge from its strategy of reducing rebates and other incentives just because it saw a steep sales drop in January, a top executive said Saturday.
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Chrysler seeking to build dealers' trust
Feb 3 2007 6:58PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Those who sell Chrysler cars and trucks still remember last year, when the company built too many vehicles and pushed them off on the dealers.
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Walgreens jury selection set to begin
Feb 3 2007 3:38PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Judge Janet Berry has seen it before.Ask prospective jurors if they have any racial prejudice or biases and rarely will anyone acknowledge it. "You'll get a lot of people look at you with blank faces," Berry said.
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CEO set to change Wheeling-Pitt culture
Feb 3 2007 3:36PM (CT)
MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio (AP) - Four decades ago, the new chief executive officer of Wheeling Pittsburgh Corp. was a rookie in the world of steel, learning there were two ways to manage people.
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Esmark plans to reinvent Wheeling-Pitt
Feb 3 2007 3:32PM (CT)
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) - Everyone knew Wheeling Pittsburgh Corp. was in trouble as it sat in the middle of a takeover battle last fall, deep in debt and dangerously low on cash and credit.
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Chevron 4Q profit drops 9 percent
Feb 3 2007 7:21AM (CT)
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Chevron Corp. pumped out its third consecutive year of record profits in 2006 despite a fourth-quarter stumble that demonstrated how quickly the oil industry can be tripped up by volatile energy prices largely out of its control.
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Chevron 4Q profit drops 9 percent
Feb 3 2007 7:21AM (CT)
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Chevron Corp. pumped out its third consecutive year of record profits in 2006 despite a fourth-quarter stumble that demonstrated how quickly the oil industry can be tripped up by volatile energy prices largely out of its control.
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Chevron 4Q profit drops 9 percent
Feb 3 2007 7:21AM (CT)
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Chevron Corp. pumped out its third consecutive year of record profits in 2006 despite a fourth-quarter stumble that demonstrated how quickly the oil industry can be tripped up by volatile energy prices largely out of its control.
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Chevron 4Q profit drops 9 percent
Feb 3 2007 7:21AM (CT)
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Chevron Corp. pumped out its third consecutive year of record profits in 2006 despite a fourth-quarter stumble that demonstrated how quickly the oil industry can be tripped up by volatile energy prices largely out of its control.
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Chevron 4Q profit drops 9 percent
Feb 3 2007 7:21AM (CT)
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) - Chevron Corp. pumped out its third consecutive year of record profits in 2006 despite a fourth-quarter stumble that demonstrated how quickly the oil industry can be tripped up by volatile energy prices largely out of its control.
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Beijing limits foreign home ownership
Feb 3 2007 12:44AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Foreigners in Beijing will be limited to buying a single home for their own use under new curbs imposed amid efforts to slow a surge in housing costs, newspapers reported Saturday.
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Muslim leader Ahmed Abu Laban dies at 60
Feb 3 2007 12:41AM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60.
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Muslim leader Ahmed Abu Laban dies at 60
Feb 3 2007 12:41AM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60.
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Muslim leader Ahmed Abu Laban dies at 60
Feb 3 2007 12:41AM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60.
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Muslim leader Ahmed Abu Laban dies at 60
Feb 3 2007 12:41AM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60.
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Chevy to air teen's ad during Super Bowl
Feb 3 2007 12:22AM (CT)
NORTH PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) - Katie Crabb says she constantly struggles to speak up and get her ideas across. But executives at Chevrolet liked what they heard and for the past four months, this self-described shy 19-year-old has kept a $2.6 million secret: She's a big-time advertising guru.
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Bolivian protesters shut down pipeline
Feb 3 2007 12:09AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Protesters forced the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline serving several of Bolivia's largest cities to demand that President Evo Morales broaden his petroleum nationalization and expand state energy company operations in southern Bolivia.
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