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    <title><![CDATA[   US, Swiss ask for delay in UBS secrecy case ]]></title>
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        The U.S. and Swiss governments and banking giant UBS AG indicated Sunday they were seeking a settlement and asked a federal judge to delay high-stakes hearings on the Internal Revenue Service&#39;s effort to identify thousands of suspected American tax evaders.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Australia: Rio detention could hurt China business ]]></title>
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        Australian officials said Sunday that China has not given them any evidence to support its detention of an Australian mining executive on spying charges and warned that the affair could discourage foreign companies from doing business there.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Still traveling for business, but carefully ]]></title>
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        Airfare wars and room-rate promotions are usually aimed at vacationers, but airlines and hotels are resorting to similar tactics to regain their traditional cash cow - the business traveler.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Pa. swim club accused of racism to ask kids back ]]></title>
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        A private suburban swim club accused of racism after it canceled the memberships of dozens of minority children says it will seek a meeting with the kids&#39; camps to work out an agreement for them to return.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Investors: 2Q revenue a sign of economic health ]]></title>
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        Investors want to see some new math in companies&#39; quarterly reports. No longer content with an economy that&#39;s limping toward recovery, the stock market is looking for signs that business improved in the second quarter or at least will in the coming months. And investors will measure that by the revenue figures companies put up as they issue earnings reports during the next four weeks.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Investors look to companies for clues on economy ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:10 CDT</pubDate>
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        Investors are about to get some of the economic data they&#39;ve been craving - from the country&#39;s big corporations.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Business travel at a glance ]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[   Owner may open QE2 as floating hotel outside Dubai ]]></title>
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        The cash-strapped Dubai owner of the QE2 is weighing plans to open the British ocean liner as a floating hotel elsewhere in the Middle East or Africa rather than in the struggling Persian Gulf sheikdom.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Geithner to focus on investment, economic recovery ]]></title>
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        On his first trip to the Middle East as Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner&#39;s message this week will be similar to the one he delivered to Chinese officials a month ago: your investments in the United States are safe.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Gasoline prices drop 10 cents in past 2 weeks ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:55 CDT</pubDate>
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        The national average price of gasoline fell about 10 cents a gallon during the past two weeks to $2.56.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Rain washes away tourism dollars in Northeast ]]></title>
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        Relentless rain and cool weather since early June have sent visitors scrambling home and washed away millions of tourism dollars across the Northeast. But the first 80-degree readings this month gave a glimmer of hope Friday that summer can be salvaged.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears ]]></title>
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        Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he&#39;d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Australian concerned for Rio employee China holds ]]></title>
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        Australia&#39;s trade minister met Saturday with Chinese officials and said his government is &quot;deeply concerned&quot; about the detention of a Rio Tinto Ltd. employee on spying charges.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers? ]]></title>
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        To protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced driver&#39;s licenses in &quot;radio-opaque&quot; sleeves.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Talks intensify over closing Calif.'s $26B deficit ]]></title>
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        Against a backdrop of IOUs and expanding government furloughs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders expressed optimism Saturday that they were moving toward a compromise that could end California&#39;s fiscal calamity.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   CIT Group said to hire bankruptcy adviser ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:30 CDT</pubDate>
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        CIT Group Inc. is working with a premier bankruptcy firm as the troubled commercial lender awaits word on whether it will receive funds from a federal program designed to help banks, the company confirmed Saturday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Planet Hollywood agrees to pay $500,000 fine in NV ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:00 CDT</pubDate>
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        Planet Hollywood Resort &amp; Casino has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine to Nevada gambling regulators over lax policing of illegal activity inside an independently operated nightclub at the resort.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   American Axle working through restructuring plan ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:10 CDT</pubDate>
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        American Axle is working with longtime legal and financial advisers to consider restructuring options, but the company and a law firm representing it are stopping short of saying they are considering bankruptcy.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   University chief proposes furloughs to cut costs ]]></title>
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        Tens of thousands of University of California employees would be forced to take furloughs and lose pay under a plan proposed Friday to offset deep funding cuts to the 10-campus system.      
    
  

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