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EU threatens Microsoft with new fines
Mar 19 2005 11:06PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union threatened Microsoft Corp. on Friday with new fines if the software company doesn't make it easier and cheaper for competitors to see the blueprints of its server software.
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Pre-trial hearing begins for Vioxx case
Mar 19 2005 11:05PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Lawyers filed into a federal courtroom Friday for the first pre-trial hearing in the federal Vioxx liability case, the start of a legal process expected to be complex, years-long and potentially very costly for the painkiller's maker, Merck & Co.
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WorldCom board OKs $20.25M settlement
Mar 19 2005 11:04PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Eleven former board members of WorldCom Inc. have agreed to pay $20.25 million of their own money to settle a lawsuit by former investors in the company, New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi said Friday.
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Wal-Mart escapes criminal charges in case
Mar 19 2005 11:04PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. escaped criminal charges but agreed Friday to pay $11 million, a record fine in a civil immigration case, to end a federal probe into its use of illegal immigrants to clean floors at stores in 21 states.
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EU, U.S. spar over aircraft subsidies
Mar 19 2005 11:03PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The United States and the European Union on Saturday accused one another of trying to renege on Jan. 11 pledge to resolve a decades-old dispute over subsidies for civilian aircraft makers within three months.
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Wal-Mart's Calif. supercenters delayed
Mar 19 2005 11:03PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. tries to plant dozens of new supercenters in California, lawyers aligned with a variety of opposition groups are using California's tough environmental laws to stall the nation's largest retailer.
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IMF chief: High oil prices to continue
Mar 19 2005 11:02PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Oil prices that have hovered around record highs for weeks are likely to continue to be high for another two years because of rising demand and supply constraints, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday.
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