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Merck facing first federal Vioxx trial
Nov 5 2005 8:53PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - With Merck & Co. now 1-and-1 in state lawsuits over its Vioxx painkiller, the nation's No. 5 drug maker may face higher stakes later this month in the first federal trial of charges that it knowingly rushed a potentially lethal drug to market to pocket billions in profits.
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U.S., China said to reach textile deal
Nov 5 2005 8:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and China have reached a tentative agreement to limit imports of Chinese clothing and textile products into the United States, U.S. industry officials said Saturday.
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Fleet sales help U.S. automakers in Oct.
Nov 5 2005 5:40PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - The October auto sales rate was at its lowest level in seven years, but the results could have been even worse if automakers hadn't gotten a significant boost from sales to corporate and rental-car fleets.
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Immigrants often unpaid for Katrina work
Nov 5 2005 4:31PM (CT)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi's Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
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