ConAgra says competitor’s label mimics Swiss Miss OMAHA, Neb. ? ConAgra Foods Inc. says a competitor’s tea label is so similar to its Swiss Miss product labels that consumers are becoming confused
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ConAgra Foods says in lawsuit Dean Foods? Swiss Tea label is too similar to its Swiss Miss
Audit: Maui Land & Pineapple’s future uncertain WAILUKU, Hawaii ? Maui Land & Pineapple Co. says its auditors have found the company’s liabilities exceed its assets by more than $60 million, raising doubts about its ability to survive
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Audit: Maui Land & Pineapple future uncertain as liabilities exceed assets by $60 million
Aetna, Nvidia, MGM Mirage, Compugen are movers NEW YORK ? The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: Aetna Inc., down 71 cents at $32.15 The health insurer expects a fourth-quarter charge of up to $65 million to cover costs for layoffs …
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Aetna, Nvidia, MGM Mirage, Compugen, Broadcom are among market movers Wednesday
Puerto Rico halts monkey-breeding facility plans SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? A judge has barred construction of a monkey-breeding facility in southern Puerto Rico that has pitted people seeking an economic lifeline for their poor mountain town against other residents and animal activists.
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Judge bars construction of monkey-breeding facility in Puerto Rico, rules in favor of PETA
Fox retrenches in Time Warner Cable dispute LOS ANGELES ? It appears Fox won’t accept Time Warner Cable’s offer to carry its broadcast signal while a fee dispute continues. Chase Carey, chief operating officer of Fox owner News Corp., told staff in a memo that a signal interruption was likely when the current deal over fees expires …
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Fox appears ready to reject contract extension in fee dispute with Time Warner Cable
Time line: The slow collapse of Fannie, Freddie Key events in the government’s rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: ? March 2008: As the housing market unravels, regulators loosen restraints on Washington-based Fannie and McLean, Va.-based Freddie so they can expand their support of the mortgage market. The chief executives of both companies commit to boosting …
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Time line: The government steps in repeatedly to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
WELLINGTON – Movie director Peter Jackson, whose final film “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King”, won 11 Oscars in 2004, was named a knight in New Zealand’s New Year honours list, released Thursday. Jackson, who becomes Sir Peter as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, said it was …
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Oscar winning director Peter Jackson becomes a knight
Stocks little changed as dollar strengthens NEW YORK ? Stocks ended the next-to-last day of 2009 little changed as welcome news on manufacturing helped offset a drop in commodities prices. The market drew support Wednesday from a key economic indicator that signaled growth in Midwest manufacturing for a third straight month
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Major stock indexes end flat in light trading as stronger dollar weighs on commodities
Dollar mixed in light year-end trading NEW YORK ? The dollar was mixed in light year-end trading Wednesday after a report on Midwest manufacturing showed that production and new orders increased and employment improved. The 16-nation euro slipped to $1.4334 in late New York trading from $1.4351 late Tuesday
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Dollar mixed in light year-end trading as report signals growth in Midwest manufacturing
Business owners are making New Year’s resolutions NEW YORK ? Small business owners aren’t just putting together budgets and sales projections as 2010 approaches: Like the rest of us, they’re making some New Year’s resolutions.
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Business owners? New Year?s resolutions: Take better care of employees, clients and kids
Polo team hit by loss of horses returns to play WELLINGTON, Fla. ? A Venezuelan-owned polo team that endured the deaths of 21 horses from a mineral overdose earlier this year is preparing to start a new season next month with a fresh fleet of horses
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Polo team hit by deaths of 21 elite horses last season returns to Fla. for new start
more images more images more images more images AP-GfK Poll: 2009 was bad for America, Americans WASHINGTON ? For all their differences, Americans largely agree on two things: 2009 was a lousy year for the nation, and 2010 is likely to be better. Nearly three-fourths of Americans think 2009 was a bad year for the country, which was rocked by job …
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AP-GfK Poll: Americans say good riddance to 2009, hope 2010 will be better for them and nation
NEW YORK – Times Square revelers will be treated to a rare “blue moon” on New Year’s Eve Thursday night. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to watch the ritual descent of the crystal ball in Times Square to usher in 2010 at midnight. But what many of them may not yet expect is a …
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more images more images Time Warner Cable offers arbitration with Fox LOS ANGELES ? Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game are among the possible casualties of a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox network’s owner is demanding from Time Warner Cable systems in New York, Los Angeles and other markets.
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Time Warner Cable offers to submit to binding arbitration in fee dispute with Fox broadcast
Top GM lobbyist to step down in DC office shake-up WASHINGTON ? The top lobbyist at General Motors Co. will retire next year and will be replaced by a former lobbyist at AT&T in a shake-up at the automaker’s Washington office.
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GM?s top lobbyist to stop down in 2010; 2 former AT&T execs named to senior lobbying posts
Texting while driving, smoking target of ’10 laws MADISON, Wis. ? Texting while driving, smoking in public and cooking with artery-clogging trans fats will be that much harder under a bevy of state laws set to take effect around the country on Friday.
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Texting while driving, public smoking, cooking with trans fats targeted in states? 2010 laws
NY budget crunch reducing state trooper ranks ALBANY, N.Y. ? New Yorkers aren’t in jeopardy because of budget cuts that have reduced the number of state troopers, the Paterson administration said Wednesday, disputing police union complaints.
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Paterson administration: Public safety not endangered by lower number of New York troopers
SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS is helping revellers ring in the New Year (10) safely by providing free transportation services in New York and Las Vegas. The generous rapper is handing out thousands of subway passes and vouchers redeemable for taxi rides in the Big Apple and Sin City as part of his Safe Rides program, which ….
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Former Indonesian president Wahid dies at 69 JAKARTA, Indonesia ? Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, who briefly ruled during the nation’s first tumultuous years of democracy and sought peace in far-flung secessionist provinces, died Wednesday.
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Ex-Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, democratic reformer, dies at 69
NEW DELHI – Terming as fake a sex tape showing him with three women that forced him to resign as Andhra Pradesh governor, veteran Congress politician Narayan Dutt Tiwari Wednesday said my death will answer all allegations levelled against me. I am at the fag end of my life and such allegations at this time [..] Read the original article: here .
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Tiwari denies ?sex romp?, says death will be final answer