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| Wall St edges lower after string of gains
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:20:55 GMT
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| Greeks delay bailout talks as Merkel demands action
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:35:14 GMT
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| Exclusive: Facebook governance a concern for Calif pension fund
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:41 GMT Reuters - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. investors, the California State Teachers' Retirement System. |
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| Mortgage deal faces setbacks, again
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:11:21 GMT Reuters - A multi-state mortgage settlement in the works for more than a year will likely be pushed back again as dissident U.S. states continue to press specific concerns and ignore a Monday deadline to decide whether they will sign it. |
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| Exclusive: MGM secures $500 mln loan to expand film, TV slate
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:38 GMT Reuters - Metro-Goldwyn Mayer said its lenders agreed to loan the studio $500 million to retire debt it took on when it emerged from bankruptcy about a year ago and to expand its film and TV production. |
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| SEC names top federal auditor to accounting board
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:27:35 GMT AP - Federal regulators have appointed a top government auditor as a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which polices the accounting industry. |
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| Report: Casinos generated $125B spending in 2010
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:33:39 GMT AP - A new report shows U.S. casinos and the industries that depend on them made a $125 billion economic splash in 2010 — the equivalent of 1 percent of the total U.S. gross domestic product. |
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| Yum Brands posts 30 percent 4th-qtr profit rise
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:12 GMT
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| Greece caves in on civil service firings
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:01:17 GMT
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| Key states move closer to foreclosure-abuse deal
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:58:29 GMT AP - California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. |
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| Anti-cuts protests push Romania PM out
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:52:11 GMT Reuters - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, joining a list of European leaders felled by fury at the kind of spending cuts that prompted weeks of mass protests in Bucharest against IMF-backed austerity. |
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| Euro zone sales tumble at Christmas, no sign of growth
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:38:05 GMT Reuters - Retail sales in the euro zone tumbled unexpectedly in December, the biggest drop in the Christmas period in three years, data showed on Friday, with rising joblessness and stubborn inflation undercut signs of a stabilization in Europe's economy. |
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| Housing plan helps nearly 1 million homeowners
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:26:24 GMT
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| US oil prices fall below $97
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:08:47 GMT AP - U.S. oil prices fell below $97 per barrel Monday as growing supplies offset moves by President Barack Obama and other Western leaders to make it tougher for Iran to sell crude. Here's how energy contracts traded. |
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| The Worthless Junk the 1 Percent Waste Their Money On
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:38:48 GMT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Strictly speaking, the 1 percent -- people whose incomes put them above the other 99 percent of us, starting at about $340,000 a year as of 2009, according to IRS data -- don't actually spend much of their money. |
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| Ford won't bid to replace military Humvees
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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:38:14 GMT Reuters - Ford Motor Co said on Monday it had decided not to participate in a new Pentagon competition to replace the U.S. military's fleet of workhorse Humvee vehicles. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.