Reuters: Banks to set up $80 billion fund to limit credit crunch "Major banks including Citigroup Inc
are looking at setting up a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets, in a
bid to prevent the credit crunch from further hurting the global economy, sources familiar with the matter
said..." 071014
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ScienceCareers.org: Top Employer Survey: The Innovation Imperative "For the first time in its six
years of existence, Science’s survey of Top Employers in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical,
pharmaceutical, and related industries has produced a winner not named Genentech. In a desperately
close contest, last year’s No. 2, Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim, just beat out Genentech and
another California biopharma, Amgen. This year’s survey also marked the arrival in the top 10 employers of
two firms from beyond the traditional biotech biopharma pharmaceutical cluster: chemical giant DuPont and
agricultural company Monsanto..." 071013
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JobHuntersBible.com: How to do Life/Work Planning "Almost everyone already does Life/Work
Planning, in some area of his or her life though without using that title. But if you got up on a Sunday morning
and you thought of eight different things you might do that day, before you discarded five of them in your
head and decided to do the remaining three..." 071008
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washingtonpost.com: Think Twice Before Jumping Into Business With a Friend "It sounds like a
dream opportunity to Jack, a part-time musician -- the chance to trade his mundane day job for one in the
music business, at an old friend's start-up..." 070913
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Business Owners' Idea Cafe: Financing Your Biz "If you're starting a business
(even thinking about it), or juggling marketing, financing, Internet, government etc. for your growing small
business, here you're not alone! To find out how much money you'll have to come up with for your business
start up or next step, use Idea Cafe's Instant Online Calculator. It's fast, easy and fun..." 091002
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MSN Money: Tax deductions that shout 'Audit me!' "t's one thing to push the envelope, another to
volunteer for the IRS audit list. Here are some of the most imaginative -- and most illegal -- deductions I've
seen..." 070907
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Yahoo! News: Weak dollar no quick fix for narrowing trade gap "A weaker dollar may boost the nation's
economy by increasing exports and narrowing the trade gap — but that won't happen anytime soon..." 091113
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msn money: Why Home Depot is getting hammered "You can't accuse Home Depot CEO Frank
Blake of not trying. Since assuming the top spot from the imperious and unpopular Robert Nardelli back in
January, he has unloaded undesirable assets, increased hiring to improve customer service and launched
a huge stock-buyback plan. Normally, investors would cheer such steps. So why is the company's stock
down 11% this year..." 071010
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Times Online: Top economist says America could plunge into recession "Losses arising from
America’s housing recession could triple over the next few years and they represent the greatest threat to
growth in the United States, one of the world’s leading economists has told The Times..." 071231
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CNN Money: Corporations woo baby boomers "With more than 1 in 4 workers eyeing retirement,
companies scramble to keep valued employees...Corporate America is finally waking up to the extensive
experience mature employees bring to the table and placing value on the benefits of retaining older
workers..." 071110
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MSN Careerbuilder.com: The Appeal of Hiring an Ex-Con "Clayton Smalls has come a long way since
he was holding up tellers behind bank counters. Today he works as a deli man behind the counter of a
Fairway Market in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Smalls, 49, who got out of prison in
October 2007 after serving 17 months for selling marijuana, has spent most of his life in and out of jail for
everything from robbery to drug dealing. 080715
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About.com: How to Recruit and Hire the Best: A Checklist for Success in Hiring Employees "Want
to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your
hiring process, whether it's your first employee or one of many employees you are hiring..." 071028
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Guardian Unlimited: From the sub-prime to the ridiculous: how $100bn vanished "It began with
low-income Americans being encouraged to borrow mortgages they couldn't afford..." 071231
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MSN Real Estate: The new ghost towns "More people buying into new developments are being left high
and dry when their builders file for bankruptcy. Here's how homeowners can protect themselves..." 071229
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wsj.com: Why Borrowers May Not Benefit From Rate Cut "Many Loans Are Now Tied To
Benchmark That Remains High Despite Fed's Moves. Not all borrowers are benefiting from the Fed's
moves to cut interest rates. The problem: Loans that are tied to a variety of interest-rate benchmarks --
some of which aren't necessarily moving in lockstep with Fed action..." 071214
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MSN Money: Who's to blame for the mortgage mess? "You know who the victims are. We name some
of the villains in a credit crunch built on irresponsible subprime lending in the United States..." 071201
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wsj.com: Home Prices Post Record Drop "U.S. home prices fell 4.5% in the third quarter from a year
earlier, the sharpest drop since Standard & Poor's began its nationwide Case-Shiller housing index in
1987, the research group said Tuesday..." 071127
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MSN Real Estate: How to sell in a buyer's market "You've got to be proactive on price, marketing and
more. Here are 10 steps to take before you plant the "for sale" sign..." 070909
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Monster Career Advice: Creat a Paperless Office "If you're finding it tough to stay ahead of the paper
trail in your office, it might be time to begin phasing it out. Storing documents electronically can save you
time and your firm money..." 070924
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LA Times.com: Glut: 5.1 million homes for sale "A major homebuilder warned this morning of the
growing problem of "surplus inventory" as another month of weak sales of new homes left the inventory of
unsold new homes at 529,000, and the total number of homes for sale in America at a staggering 5.1
million..." 070927
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National Labor Relations Board: What are my rights as an ...employee, ...employer, ...union? "The
National Labor Relations Act extends rights to most private sector employees and their employers..."
080106
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business know-how: IRS Resources for Small Business "Tax Law Changes--The IRS has published
2006 tax law changes on its website..." 080106
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Wired: Condominimum "More aesthetic than ascetic, the micro compact home may be smaller than an
SUV, but it packs a lot more utility..." 080106
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Reuters: Banks to set up $80 billion fund to limit credit crunch "Major banks including Citigroup Inc
are looking at setting up a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securities and other assets, in a
bid to prevent the credit crunch from further hurting the global economy, sources familiar with the matter
said..." 071014
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Forbes: Caution: High Voltage "Electric vehicle companies are sparking to life all over. What happens
to them if GM or Toyota electrifies autos?..." 070926
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ScienceCareers.org: Top Employer Survey: The Innovation Imperative "For the first time in its six
years of existence, Science’s survey of Top Employers in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical,
pharmaceutical, and related industries has produced a winner not named Genentech. In a desperately
close contest, last year’s No. 2, Germany-based Boehringer Ingelheim, just beat out Genentech and
another California biopharma, Amgen. This year’s survey also marked the arrival in the top 10 employers of
two firms from beyond the traditional biotech biopharma pharmaceutical cluster: chemical giant DuPont and
agricultural company Monsanto..." 071013
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monster: Stimulus Job Creation: A Midyear Check-In "When it was signed into law in February 2009,
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) promised hundreds of billions of dollars to create or
save millions of jobs for US workers. Have employers been able to claim a share of the funds and begin
putting people to work?..." 091008
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RECOVERY.gov: RECOVERY.GOV "...the U.S. government’s official website providing easy access to
data related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse..."
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