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The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;We had to stop at every rest area to check on the livestock,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and every time we pulled in, the goats would baaah, the roosters would crow, the dog would bark and everybody would turn around and look at this motley crew of creatures.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
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With market volatility and deleveraging pushing the markets to irrational lows, the corresponding recovery could be an equally volatile snap-up in some sectors. Missing the upside could be costly.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s not that Southerners are secretly wishing for the Big Three to collapse. But if those automakers were to falter, the new players are poised to ramp up production and possibly turn the South into the next Detroit.           ]]></description>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CBJ: Dropping the Baton in Estate Titling</title>
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How you &#8220;title&#8221; the property you own is a lot more important than you might think. Failure to title your assets properly could undo the best will and trust planning that money can buy. And it could make a huge difference in how much estate tax your estate will pay and how much hassle your heirs will experience when you die.           ]]></description>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;I think when people think of such a rural community, and that&#8217;s really what we are, they&#8217;re surprised when they start hearing [what&#8217;s here]: &#8216;Montpelier&#8217;s there? Barboursville&#8217;s there?&#8217;&#8221; said Joe Ward.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CBJ: Keep Christmas Your Own Way</title>
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Every year, Americans seem determined to be more frugal than the year before because of the latest economic conditions. One year it is rising energy prices; another year it is rising interest rates. This year, of course, the drop in everyone&#8217;s investments looms large. And so once again Americans will promise to cut back on presents, food and decorations and to fund their celebration from actual income instead of savings or credit cards.           ]]></description>
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The layoffs were spread among 30 locations across the mid-Atlantic, the company said in a statement.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Timeline: Circuit City</title>
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Timeline of Circuit City&#8217;s rise and fall.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Circuit City&#8217;s strategic miscues added up</title>
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From humble beginnings in a small downtown Richmond storefront in 1949, Circuit City Stores Inc. grew into a retailing powerhouse.           ]]></description>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
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If your retirement account is down, reducing your spending and increasing your savings are the best ways to get it back on track.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve always felt Lynchburg was a city on the edge. Now, I&#8217;m really invested in that edge.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection</title>
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Updated 1:15 p.m. The Richmond, Va.-based retailer has been struggling as nervous consumers spend less and credit has become tighter. The announcement came a week after it said it would close 20 percent of its stores and lay off thousands of workers.
Circuit City&#8217;s past miscues
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Wall Street was enjoying an Election Day rally Tuesday, surging as investors brushed off weak economic data and looked forward to putting the uncertainty of the presidential voting behind them. The Dow Jones industrial average soared about 300 points, and the other major indexes rose well over 2 percent.           ]]></description>
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Unakite - named after the Unaka range on the Tennessee-North Carolina line where it was first identified - is a visual treat. Its color combination makes it irresistible to collectors who carve and polish it into beads, paperweights and bookends.           ]]></description>
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Updated: 2:50 p.m. &#8220;...We are making a number of difficult, but necessary, decisions to address the company&#8217;s financial situation as quickly as possible,&#8220; said James A. Marcum, vice chairman and acting president and CEO of Circuit City.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street started November on a cautious note Monday, as stocks rose moderately after last week&#8217;s surge and ahead of readings on manufacturing activity, construction spending and auto sales.           ]]></description>
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Free markets are under assault in America. We have seen much hyperbole and slander in these past two years of political polarization. But the idea of capitalism and free markets has received more negative campaigning and vicious attack than both candidates combined.           ]]></description>
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Beaten down and watching their wealth shrink, Americans are cutting back sharply on their spending, trimming it in September by the largest amount in four years.           ]]></description>
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Exxon Mobil Corp., the world&#8217;s largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter.           ]]></description>
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A private research group said Tuesday that consumer confidence in the U.S. economy plunged in October to its lowest on record, as stock markets dropped sharply and companies laid off workers.           ]]></description>
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The Treasury Department will start doling out $125 billion to nine major banks this week to get credit flowing again, giving a lift to U.S. markets on rising confidence that the government&#8217;s moves would stave off a protracted recession.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Every auto company in the world is developing all-electric or plug-in hybrids,&#8221; said Zan Dubin Scott, a spokeswoman for Plug In America, a nonprofit advocacy group for electric car owners. &#8220;The utilities, municipalities and smart business people are seeing that this is the future.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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Many investors are panicking. From its peak in March 2000, the major market indexes still show significant losses. Even looking back over the past 10 years provides little comfort. The news media is calling it &#8220;the lost decade.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:40:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:37:00 EST</pubDate>
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Wall Street opened lower Monday after stock markets around the world tumbled further on worries about the global economy.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>CBJ: Be careful what you bail out</title>
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When the U.S. bailed out the agriculture sector in the early 1930s, it forever changed the business of farming. While today&#8217;s banking industry interventions are different in many ways, economists say it is worth noting that &#8220;emergency&#8221; Depression-era measures meant to protect farming families from short-term market swings have become near-permanent support at taxpayer expense           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:49:00 EST</pubDate>
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The proposal for privatizing Social Security is simple but elegant. Allow younger workers to deposit part of their Social Security taxes into a private account. If it produces a better retirement than Social Security, they can refuse Social Security and keep the private account. Otherwise they can take Social Security. Given my expected rates of return, putting just a tiny fraction of my withholding into a private account will do better than getting a negative rate of return in Social Security, even using the poor rate of return to where the market bottomed.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Stock futures higher as investors await earnings</title>
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Wall Street headed for a higher open Monday as investors cheered signs that global credit markets are thawing even as they awaited a batch of quarterly earnings to see how companies are weathering the financial crisis.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:22:00 EST</pubDate>
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Wall Street was gearing up for another surge following the Dow Jones industrial average&#8217;s historic 936-point jump, with investors encouraged by the U.S. government&#8217;s plans to spend $250 billion on buying stock in private banks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:41:01 EST</pubDate>
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Wall Street snapped back from last week&#8217;s devastating losses after major governments announced further steps to support the global banking system, including plans by the U.S. Treasury to buy stocks of some banks. All the major indexes rose well over 6 percent, and the Dow Jones industrials gained 500 points.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:27:00 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;With the economy what it is, people are looking for value and service,&#8221; Seminole Square Giant store manager Soumera Sayasithsena.. &#8220;Whoever provides that best, that&#8217;s where people are going to shop.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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By TIM PARADIS
AP Business Writer           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <link>http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/business/local/article/cbj_property_transfers_building_permits14/29256/</link>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:12:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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If you think the $700 billion bailout of the mortgage crisis was expensive, wait until we need to bail out Social Security. Between 2037 and 2075 the Social Security program is projected to run deficits totaling $30 trillion. And annual shortfalls are projected to start as soon as 2017.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:09:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones industrials to their eighth straight day of losses and worst week ever. Stocks gyrated in the opening minutes as a burst of buying in financial stocks spread to other sectors, but all the major indexes were down more than 5 percent by midafternoon.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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From Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, there were 1,962 houses sold in the region. There were 2,506 homes sold during the same period in 2007.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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News that the Bush administration is considering taking part ownership in a number of U.S. banks helped restore a relative calm over global financial markets Thursday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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Citigroup and Wells Fargo have agreed to extend their legal standstill in the fight for Wachovia until Friday morning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;The dollar today is what the penny was to the grandparent&#8217;s generation,&#8221; said Marshal Cohen, an analyst for the research firm NPD Group. &#8220;When you can get something for a dollar and it works, people get excited.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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When a hurricane threatens, making a plan and gearing up for emergencies is imperative. Economic emergencies happen too, but it may be less obvious how to prepare. Here are seven steps you should take to weather any financial storm.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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A battle broke out for control of Wachovia Friday as Wells Fargo signed a $15.1 billion agreement to buy the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, while Citigroup and the federal regulators backing its earlier deal insisted that Citi&#8217;s takeover bid go forward.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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U.S. employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:28:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <link>http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/business/local/article/cbj_property_transfers_building_permits12/28552/</link>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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Assigning blame for recent events in the financial markets is today&#8217;s most pressing political issue. Unintended cause and effect are both complex and subtle, but recognizing the culprits is important if we want to avoid giving them additional power and responsibility.           ]]></description>
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Veteran banker Glenn Rust sat down with The Daily Progress to discuss the Charlottesville region&#8217;s economy, the nation&#8217;s financial crisis and his plans for Virginia National Bank&#8217;s future growth.           ]]></description>
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Updated 3:30 p.m. &#8220;I now expect that we will indeed have a plan that can pass the House, pass the Senate (and) be signed by the president,&#8220; said Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah.
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President Bush is bringing presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain into negotiations on a $700 billion rescue of Wall Street as Democrats and Republicans near agreement on a bailout plan with more protections for taxpayers and new help for distressed homeowners.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;The financial markets are in quite fragile condition and I think absent a plan they will get worse,&#8220; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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Top executive Philip J. Schoonover resigned yesterday, four months after he asked shareholders for more time to turn around Circuit City Stores Inc.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress on Tuesday to quickly pass a $700 billion financial bailout, warning that letting problems persist would have dire consequences for the national economy.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>CBJ: Is the rich&#45;hued Kodachrome era fading to black?</title>
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For decades, Kodachrome was the standard choice for professional color photography and avant-garde filmmaking. At its peak, a reverential Paul Simon crooned &#8220;Mama, don&#8217;t take my Kodachrome away&#8221; in 1973. It&#8217;s the only film to have a state park named after it &#8212; photogenic Kodachrome Basin State Park in the red-rock canyons of southern Utah.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:03:01 EST</pubDate>
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BRIC nations have surpassed expectations. The original Goldman Sachs analysis projected the four economies would comprise over 10 percent of the global output by the end of the decade. A year and a half early, they comprise nearly 13 percent.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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A weekly listing of property transfers and building permits in and around Charlottesville.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gov&#8217;t rushing to finish huge financial rescue plan</title>
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The Bush administration sketched out a multi-faceted effort on Friday to confront the worst U.S. financial crisis in decades, outlining a program that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to buy up bad mortgages and other toxic debt. Relief washed over Wall Street with a surge of buying.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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&#8220;When they are trying to return to more meals at home, they don&#8217;t want to start from scratch like we would a generation or two ago,&#8221; said Tim Hammonds, president and CEO at the Food Marketing Institute, an industry trade group. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the prepared foods are so popular.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:21:00 EST</pubDate>
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One in every five people in the world lives in communist China. Unlike other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the Chinese lack representative government, the rule of law administered by independent judges, basic human rights, freedom of the media, independent universities and the right of workers to move freely. Even the constitution makes clear that the government has no limits or accountability to the Chinese people.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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Business Calendar           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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Local business announcements           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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