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Japanese stocks fall sharply at midday
Mar 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks fell sharply in early afternoon trading Monday, extending a slide for a fifth day that was sparked by last week's plunge in Chinese and U.S. stock markets.
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Japanese stocks fall sharply at midday
Mar 4 2007 11:36PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks fell sharply in early afternoon trading Monday, extending a slide for a fifth day that was sparked by last week's plunge in Chinese and U.S. stock markets.
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Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil
Mar 4 2007 9:24PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where President Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles, providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars.
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Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil
Mar 4 2007 9:24PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where President Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles, providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars.
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Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil
Mar 4 2007 9:24PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Just an hour's drive outside this traffic-choked metropolis where President Bush kicks off a Latin American tour Thursday, sugar cane fields stretch for hundreds of miles, providing the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars.
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Premier: China to focus on helping poor
Mar 4 2007 9:21PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Premier Wen Jiabao promised Monday to spend more on boosting incomes in China's poor, restive countryside and protecting the environment as he announced budget plans for 2007.
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Premier: China to focus on helping poor
Mar 4 2007 9:21PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Premier Wen Jiabao promised Monday to spend more on boosting incomes in China's poor, restive countryside and protecting the environment as he announced budget plans for 2007.
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Premier: China to focus on helping poor
Mar 4 2007 9:21PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Premier Wen Jiabao promised Monday to spend more on boosting incomes in China's poor, restive countryside and protecting the environment as he announced budget plans for 2007.
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Nev. merchants: $25B sales in 6 months
Mar 4 2007 6:53PM (CT)
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A state report shows that halfway through the fiscal year, Nevada merchants sold $25 billion in goods for a 3 percent increase, while tax collections based on the sales are slightly below projections.
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SEC rules level exchange playing field
Mar 4 2007 6:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stock markets and the electronic trading platforms that compete with them enter a new era Monday as regulations take effect to level the playing field for all types of exchanges.
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US Airways tech glitch delays passengers
Mar 4 2007 3:50PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A problem with a computerized reservation system caused delays for US Airways passengers Sunday at the airline's largest hub, airline officials said.
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DM&E railroad looks to Wall Street
Mar 4 2007 3:41PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Washington turned down the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad's request for a loan for the biggest U.S. rail expansion in decades. Will Wall Street be kinder?
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Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
Mar 4 2007 3:37PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.
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Wall Street braces for bumpy ride
Mar 4 2007 2:21PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - If last week was Wall Street's big dive, this week will be where it tries to figure out how deep the water is.
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Low subsidies, aging plague rural Japan
Mar 4 2007 2:04PM (CT)
YUBARI, Japan (AP) - When the last coal mine in Yubari closed down in 1990, city elders thought pumping tax money into an amusement park, hall of fossils, ski resort and robot museum would keep this remote snowbound town of 13,000 people afloat and on the map.
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Arrest raises alarm on accounting law
Mar 4 2007 1:50PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute lawyers over work done on their clients' behalf.
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Single-origin chocolate goes mainstream
Mar 4 2007 1:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Call it chocolate with a pedigree. Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place _ the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for example.
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Single-origin chocolate goes mainstream
Mar 4 2007 1:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Call it chocolate with a pedigree. Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place _ the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for example.
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Owners to sell Las Vegas' aging Sahara
Mar 4 2007 12:02PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Owners of the Sahara Hotel and Casino, a Rat Pack hangout and the setting of the original "Ocean's Eleven" film, have agreed to sell the aging property to an investor group.
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Fuel efficiency Geneva Motor Show theme
Mar 4 2007 5:08AM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Fuel efficiency through new technology and hybrid vehicles will be a top theme at this year's Geneva Motor Show, with DaimlerChrysler displaying a lower-emission diesel engine and Toyota unveiling its Hybrid X concept marrying an electric motor with a gas engine.
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Fuel efficiency Geneva Motor Show theme
Mar 4 2007 5:08AM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Fuel efficiency through new technology and hybrid vehicles will be a top theme at this year's Geneva Motor Show, with DaimlerChrysler displaying a lower-emission diesel engine and Toyota unveiling its Hybrid X concept marrying an electric motor with a gas engine.
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