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SF Gate
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Office Depot Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 million in civil penalties to settle a lawsuit claiming that customers statewide were overcharged because of faulty readings on scanners at the checkout line, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office said..
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SF Gate
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A handful of CEOs in the AP executive pay list take home a salary of $1 a year or less. But all of them manage to make millions anyway, illustrating the point that if you're running the show, your salary doesn't mean much.
"Salary has become such a min..
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Alter Net
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The CEOs who sit on the powerful Business Roundtable are working to stop Congress from moving ahead with executive pay reform. The reason? It's all personal.
Does CEO pay in the United States need anymore fixing?
The 160 corporate CEOs who make up t..
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BusinessWeek
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From an economist's point of view, the "core" rate counts more than the "headline." But the Fed will have to pay attention to both
If there's one thing Americans don't like, it's a cheater. And as far as many people are concerned, it's cheating to calc..
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BusinessWeek
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The GOP candidate's call to allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation is seen as an appeal to middle-class voters and the unions
John McCain threw a dash of populist pepper into an otherwise fairly traditional Republican stew of economic pol..
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MSNBC
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The top hedge fund managers took home dizzying sums last year, fed by a bull market in commodities and investors’ willingness to pay up for proven track records.
Institutional Investor’s Alpha reported Wednesday the top 50 hedge fund managers earne..
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BBC News
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More than 20,000 workers at a factory in Vietnam that makes shoes for Nike have gone on strike demanding higher pay to cope with rising inflation.
The average monthly salary at the Taiwanese-owned plant is about $59 (�30), 14% more than the minimum a..
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MSNBC
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Most first dates come straight out of the pages of a 1920s romance novel, and after a man generously treats a woman, he still expects something in return.
Namely, he expects her to return the favor of paying. (What were you thinking?)
An Elle/msnbc...
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BBC News
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The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
Microsoft must now pay 899 million euros ($1.4bn; �680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it took par..
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MSNBC
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Harvard University announced Monday a major expansion of financial aid that will reduce tuition bills by thousands of dollars — even for families earning six figures.
The university said it would replace all loans with grants and spend up to $22 mill..
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SF Gate
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When Mourad Lahlou has an opening for a line cook at his San Francisco restaurant, Aziza, he gets plenty of resumes. But most of them are from recent cooking school graduates who don't have the moxie to survive on the hot line at one of San Francisco's bu..
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Washington Post
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Warren E. Buffett was his usual folksy self Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as he slammed a system that allows the very rich to pay taxes at a lower rate than the middle class.
Buffett cited himself, the third-ric..
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Los Angeles Times
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Dear Liz: I am retiring. I can sell my house and pay cash for a retirement home in the area where I want to live. Does this make sense? I can't see any benefit in taking out a mortgage and paying interest.
Answer: There are financial pundits who believ..
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Times Online
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The past week has been a tough time to be British and poor. Tens of thousands of Britain’s least well-off have been sent a harsh message by First Direct, one of the country’s biggest banks: “Pay up, or push off.” Earlier, Farepak, a Christmas hamp..
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Yahoo News
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Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay Universal Music Group a fee for each new Zune digital music player it sells when the iPod rival launches next week, the companies said on Thursday...
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