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Delta wants permission to sell aircraft
Dec 6 2006 11:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Delta Air Lines Inc., which is operating under bankruptcy protection, asked for court permission late Wednesday to sell certain Boeing aircraft and acquire others that are either smaller or have longer ranges as it cuts domestic flights and increases international ones.
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Taco Bell removes green onions
Dec 6 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly four dozen people in three states.
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Taco Bell removes green onions
Dec 6 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly four dozen people in three states.
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Taco Bell removes green onions
Dec 6 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly four dozen people in three states.
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Taco Bell removes green onions
Dec 6 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly four dozen people in three states.
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Taco Bell removes green onions
Dec 6 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly four dozen people in three states.
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Philly papers face strike as talks stall
Dec 6 2006 11:09PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's two biggest newspapers could face a strike as early as Thursday, an official of the newspapers' largest union said hours after negotiations with management stalled over the issue of pensions.
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Fannie Mae erases $6.3 billion in profit
Dec 6 2006 10:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fannie Mae erased $6.3 billion in profit in a long-awaited restatement Wednesday capping the accounting scandal that stunned financial markets and brought the ouster of top executives and a record fine against the government-sponsored mortgage leader.
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Japan stocks extend gains; Dollar falls
Dec 6 2006 9:56PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese stocks extended gains from the previous day Thursday morning, led by tobacco and semiconductor shares. The dollar fell against the yen.
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Oil prices rise slightly in Asian
Dec 6 2006 9:52PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices gained slightly in Asian trading Thursday after U.S. government data showed domestic inventories of crude oil, gasoline and heating oil fell last week.
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Yahoo makes major organizational changes
Dec 6 2006 9:03PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is tackling its most difficult challenge since the dot-com bust with sweeping organizational changes aimed at cleaning up a mess of the Internet icon's own making.
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Ford boosts borrowing capacity to $23B
Dec 6 2006 7:52PM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it will raise its new borrowing capacity to as much as $23 billion, up from the $18 billion figure it announced last week.
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Must-have holiday gifts not easy to find
Dec 6 2006 6:38PM (CT)
SEARCHING FOR ELMO (AP) - I missed him by minutes at the Toys "R" Us. I was told he was in the back room at the KB Toys store. But I never saw his furry red face. After trudging through three malls and a dozen stores in four hours in the Washington metropolitan area one day last week, T.M.X. Elmo was nowhere to be found.
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NY Times won't change share structure
Dec 6 2006 6:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Faced with challenges over Internet advertising, circulation and newsprint prices, some leading newspaper executives at an annual investor conference Wednesday also considered whether to remain public at all _ and in what form.
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Lufthansa favors Boeing on latest order
Dec 6 2006 6:25PM (CT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - In a blow to Airbus SAS, German airline Lufthansa AG said Wednesday it would order 20 Boeing 747-8 planes, with purchase rights for 20 more, becoming the first airline to order the new long-haul jet for passenger service.
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Homebuilders predict low in early 2007
Dec 6 2006 6:24PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Builders will use the housing slowdown as a chance to become more efficient before the market improves, which is expected to happen by the middle of next year, a number of executives said Wednesday.
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Home Depot finds $200M in option expense
Dec 6 2006 6:12PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The Home Depot Inc. said Wednesday an internal investigation of the company's stock option practices has concluded that errors caused it to have roughly $200 million in unrecorded option expenses over a 26-year period.
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Bonds slip after robust Nov. jobs report
Dec 6 2006 6:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Treasury bond prices fell Wednesday, as the market sold off on a report anticipating robust jobs growth for November.
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Merck sees increase in profits for 2007
Dec 6 2006 4:31PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Merck & Co. expects slightly higher profits in 2007 on sales growth from newer drugs and expected product launches, including a successor to the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, the company said Wednesday.
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Arcelor, Mittal plan to sell German unit
Dec 6 2006 1:40PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Arcelor SA and Mittal Steel NV said Wednesday they will sell a German steel company to head off concerns that their planned combination would hurt competition in the European steel industry.
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Cisco to set up center in India
Dec 6 2006 11:41AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. will set up a center in India to support all aspects of its worldwide operations, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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Cisco to set up center in India
Dec 6 2006 11:41AM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. will set up a center in India to support all aspects of its worldwide operations, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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Boeing's 787 on schedule, demand strong
Dec 6 2006 11:21AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner remains on schedule for its first test flight next summer and for delivery to airlines in 2008 despite the ongoing challenge to make it lighter, the new head of the company's commercial airplanes unit said Wednesday.
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Scania considering counterbid for MAN
Dec 6 2006 9:13AM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The chief executive of Swedish truckmaker Scania AB said Wednesday the company is considering making counterbid for Germany rival MAN AG, but declined to specify the value.
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British economic growth forecast raised
Dec 6 2006 8:41AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Treasury chief Gordon Brown said Britain's economy is growing faster than anticipated, raising his forecast for this year by a half percentage point to 2.75 percent.
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Calif. beekeepers fear no-fly zones
Dec 6 2006 5:19AM (CT)
VISALIA, Calif. (AP) - In this patchwork of fruit and nut fields in California's citrus belt, honey and oranges don't mix anymore.
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China firms unveil new video players
Dec 6 2006 4:26AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's top electronics makers on Wednesday unveiled dozens of video players made with a homegrown DVD format in a campaign to promote a Chinese alternative to foreign technology.
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Low trans-Atlantic fares slipping away
Dec 6 2006 3:25AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Travelers seeking cheaper flights across the Atlantic lost out Tuesday after the Bush administration scrapped a proposal that would have permitted foreign investors to have more control of U.S. airlines.
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D.C. Council passes green building rules
Dec 6 2006 3:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Waterless urinals and recycled carpet could become common building features in the nation's capital under green construction legislation passed Tuesday by the District of Columbia Council.
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Future dimming for Puerto Rico telescope
Dec 6 2006 3:21AM (CT)
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) - At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
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Brazil cancels flights at 3 big airports
Dec 6 2006 3:14AM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Virtually all takeoffs from three major airports in Brazil were canceled Tuesday night after an air traffic communications system broke down, making it difficult for controllers to communicate with pilots and creating air travel chaos.
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