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TXU directors tentatively back sale
Feb 25 2007 11:06PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Directors of TXU Corp., the largest electricity producer in Texas, gave tentative approval Sunday night to sell the company to two private-equity firms that would abandon plans to build eight new coal-fired power plants, according to people close to the situation.
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Oil prices rise above $61 a barrel
Feb 25 2007 10:43PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices rose Monday in Asian trading as a winter storm plowed across the United States, spurring expectations of strong demand for heating oil.
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Reports: Tribune mulls Zell offer
Feb 25 2007 9:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Tribune Co. board of directors is considering an offer from real estate magnate Sam Zell to take the company private, but is leaning toward restructuring the company on its own, according to published reports.
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Reports: Tribune mulls Zell offer
Feb 25 2007 9:18PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The Tribune Co. board of directors is considering an offer from real estate magnate Sam Zell to take the company private, but is leaning toward restructuring the company on its own, according to published reports.
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Wal-Mart starts city campaign in Chicago
Feb 25 2007 5:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.
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Wal-Mart starts city campaign in Chicago
Feb 25 2007 5:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.
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Wal-Mart starts city campaign in Chicago
Feb 25 2007 5:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.
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Wal-Mart starts city campaign in Chicago
Feb 25 2007 5:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.
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Wal-Mart starts city campaign in Chicago
Feb 25 2007 5:14PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Baggy clothes and Mexican CDs line the aisles. Catfish bait and automobile decorations sit on the shelves. A local restaurant serves up fried chicken near the checkout stands.
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Consumer-related data might move stocks
Feb 25 2007 5:12PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - This week on Wall Street will be all about American consumers and whether their spending habits are strong enough to support a steady advance in stocks.
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Station agrees to $5.5B buyout
Feb 25 2007 5:05PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Station Casinos Inc.'s board of directors has accepted a revised buyout offer from its founding family and a unit of real estate firm Colony Capital LLC for about $5.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
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Gas prices up almost 13 cents nationwide
Feb 25 2007 5:02PM (CT)
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - Gasoline prices soared nearly 13 cents a gallon on average nationwide in the past two weeks as the price of crude oil rose.
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Netflix delivers 1 billionth DVD
Feb 25 2007 4:39PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Netflix Inc. delivered its 1 billionth DVD over the weekend, marking another milestone in the Internet rental service's evolution from a peculiar dot-com to a marquee attraction in millions of homes.
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Emirates, MIT team up for green energy
Feb 25 2007 4:27PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Leaders of this major oil-producing Gulf country said Sunday they were plunging into the field of renewable energy, announcing a joint research venture into green energy with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Virtual design companies keep busy
Feb 25 2007 3:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scions to young buyers, it turned to one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe "Second Life."
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Neb. tribe diversifies away from casinos
Feb 25 2007 2:11PM (CT)
WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) - Rising from the bluffs of eastern Nebraska, on the sparsely populated, historically poor Winnebago Indian reservation, stands a glass-paneled office building.
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