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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
Feb 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.
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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
Feb 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.
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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
Feb 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.
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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
Feb 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.
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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
Feb 4 2007 11:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.
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Chrysler, Ford address dealers at talks
Feb 4 2007 11:19PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - When several thousand Ford or Chrysler dealers meet with their corporate executives and things aren't going well, there's always tension and conflict. Sunday's meetings were no different.
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Hyundai chief convicted of embezzlement
Feb 4 2007 10:56PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo was convicted Monday of embezzlement and other charges and sentenced to three years in prison over a slush fund scandal that has weighed on South Korea's largest automaker.
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A run-down of this year's Super Bowl ads
Feb 4 2007 10:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Appearing on the Super Bowl can be just as much of an honor _ and a harrowing experience _ for an advertiser as it is for a football player. With some 90 million people watching and the cost for a 30-second spot reaching as high as $2.6 million, big-time money and bragging rights are both at stake.
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A run-down of this year's Super Bowl ads
Feb 4 2007 10:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Appearing on the Super Bowl can be just as much of an honor _ and a harrowing experience _ for an advertiser as it is for a football player. With some 90 million people watching and the cost for a 30-second spot reaching as high as $2.6 million, big-time money and bragging rights are both at stake.
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Wall Street to get another earnings rush
Feb 4 2007 8:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The uncertainty that has at times waylaid Wall Street in the new year might be less of a factor in the coming week now that investors have been placated by generally good corporate earnings and upbeat comments from the Federal Reserve.
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Vornado offering cash up front for EOP
Feb 4 2007 8:07PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Vornado Realty Trust said Sunday it is proposing to pay the cash portion of its $23.24 billion bid for Equity Office Properties Trust up front to address concerns about the speed and certainty of its offer.
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Economist: Auto sales to remain flat
Feb 4 2007 7:32PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - U.S. auto sales this year should be about the same as in 2006, but increased truck sales could be a bright spot after last year's disaster for the three Detroit-area automakers, the National Automobile Dealers Association's top economist said Sunday.
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New venture for Woods, Federer, Henry
Feb 4 2007 7:06PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry will team in an endorsement deal with Gillette that will put the trio in TV commercials around the world.
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New venture for Woods, Federer, Henry
Feb 4 2007 7:06PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry will team in an endorsement deal with Gillette that will put the trio in TV commercials around the world.
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New venture for Woods, Federer, Henry
Feb 4 2007 7:06PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry will team in an endorsement deal with Gillette that will put the trio in TV commercials around the world.
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New venture for Woods, Federer, Henry
Feb 4 2007 7:06PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Thierry Henry will team in an endorsement deal with Gillette that will put the trio in TV commercials around the world.
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Nigeria oil workers call off strike
Feb 4 2007 5:08PM (CT)
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The two main oil-worker unions in Nigeria said they called off a strike planned for Monday to protest insecurity in the restive petroleum-producing region pending a meeting with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Dubai serves as diversification model
Feb 4 2007 4:18PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai's push to diversify its economy may not only save it from a possible crash in oil prices but could also serve as a model to other Gulf Arab states for a post-oil era, its leader and economists said.
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Consumers still worried about E. coli
Feb 4 2007 4:18PM (CT)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - September's national spinach recall has shaken consumer confidence in the safety of leafy green vegetables, according to a new national survey.
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Report: Zucker to replace Wright at NBC
Feb 4 2007 12:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeff Zucker, who made his mark as executive producer of NBC's "Today" show, is expected to be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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Report: Zucker to replace Wright at NBC
Feb 4 2007 12:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeff Zucker, who made his mark as executive producer of NBC's "Today" show, is expected to be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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9 oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria freed
Feb 4 2007 3:38AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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Bolivian forces take control of pipeline
Feb 4 2007 2:58AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Soldiers and police retook control of a natural gas installation Saturday, using tear gas and rubber bullets to drive out protesters who had forced the closing of a key pipeline serving the nation's two largest cities.
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