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Brazil is to boost state control of vast, recently discovered offshore oil fields by giving its oil company Petrobras a minimum 30 percent stake in areas open to foreign company… More
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Mexico placed the state of Baja California on high alert Monday as Hurricane Jimena, rated an “extremely dangerous” Category Four storm, took aim at the resort-studded peninsula. … More
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The Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and… More
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British police said Monday they will review the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, whose 1969 drowning was ruled an accident but sparked decades of speculation that he was… More
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Aledo, Texas and Spring, Texas Win National Youth Baseball 10U and 12U Championships MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Sixteen teams, the champions from the eight… More
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Meridian Aviation Consulting, a division of Meridian Consulting L.L.C., with deep expertise in the rotor wing industry as a consulting… More
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NEW YORK,. Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Moet Hennessy USA, the world’s leading luxury fine wine and spirits importer, and Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc., the largest… More
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NEW DELHI, August 31 /PRNewswire/ — – Relaxation in Lending Limits up to 6% for Micro Enterprises. – Credit Monitoring Cell to Monitor Credit Related Issues. -… More
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The Reina Sofia contemporary art museum, one of the most visited in Spain, will be free of charge every weekday evening between 7:00pm and its closing at 9:00pm beginning Wednesday, its… More
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An on-the-ground military review of the war in Afghanistan is likely to paint a grim but realistic view of what is needed to win it, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Touring… More
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A frantic caller told authorities he had just come home to find several relatives apparently beaten to death and another barely breathing, according to a 911 tape released Monday from the… More
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Third Avenue Management LLC, the investment adviser to the Third Avenue Funds, today launched the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund. The new Fund More
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Virtually paperless, self-service branch opens to serve metro Detroiters where they already shop with extended hours that fit their schedules LATHRUP VILLAGE, Mich., Aug…. More
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Participating Restaurants Are Eligible for Food Network Tour and Lunch Food Network Star Aaron McCargo Jr., National Spokesperson, Kicks Off Event With Special "Big… More
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A custom-designed racecar bearing the phrase “Always Remember” was unveiled Monday by NASCAR’s Benny Gordon across from the World Trade Center site. Gordon will race the car on Sept…. More
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Motherhood Maternity((R)) announced today the NFL Kickoff Sweepstakes celebrating the successful launch of its NFL maternity… More
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Lateral Hires Strengthen The Firm’s Cross-Border Bankruptcy Presence NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP today… More
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — RAPP has announced that Becca Weigman has been appointed Chief Marketing Officer of RAPP U.S., a new position. (Logo: More
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Hire marks significant expansion of firm’s service offering in nonqualified plan consulting RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — Mike Curran, retired founder and CEO of… More
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-Postman, Former Executive Editor of ELLE Magazine, to Oversee Editorial Direction of Body + Soul and wholeliving.com NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Martha… More
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The United States has begun the formal process to get account details of 4,450 American clients of UBS suspected of tax evasion, the Swiss finance ministry said on Monday. More
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A Chinese magazine’s weekend report that state-owned companies had the right to renege on commodity derivative contracts caused concern among foreign banks on Monday, though it was met with some disbelief. More
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In agreeing to pay .5 billion for BJ Services, oil services giant Baker Hughes appears to be making a bet that there is still a lot of money to be made off of hard-to-drill wells. More
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He’s not nearly as famous as the Incredible Hulk or his company’s other comic-book icons, but Ike Perlmutter appears to be getting a hero’s share of the proceeds from Monday’s billion sale of Marvel Entertainment More
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Disney’s friendly deal to buy Marvel Entertainment makes it easy to forget that the comic-book company’s takeover history has a dark side: In the late 1990s, Ronald O. Perelman was grappling with Carl C. Icahn for control of Marvel. More
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Walt Disney Company said Monday it has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment, the storied comic book company that owns the rights to such popular characters as Spider Man and and the Fantastic Four, in a cash and stock deal it valued at billion. More
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Baker Hughes, the oilfield services company, said Monday it has agreed to buy BJ Services in a .5 billion cash and stock deal. More
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Alan Schwartz, the former chief executive of Bear Stearns who is now chairman of Guggenheim Partners, has reportedly recruited Kenneth Savio, Bear’s former co-head of trading and sales, to his new firm. More
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