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Sort by Reuters (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Wall Street lenders, bond insurers and Alabama's Jefferson County were again in talks aimed at averting a possible bankruptcy filing by restructuring $3.2 billion of debt, a county official said on Tuesday.
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Sort by Nouslife (Free subscription) - 09/03/2008
Wall E Kleenex: "In what must surely be the height of tragic irony Kimberly-Clark is using Wall*E a movie about conservation to sell Kleenex a disposable paper product containing absolutely no recycled content" OH, and please note this is on EcoTube, an environmental campaigning video sharing site.
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Sort by Market Watch (Free subscription) - 09/01/2008
The state-run Korea Development Bank hasn’t abandoned its efforts to buy a stake in Lehman Brothers, according to a report Sunday.
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Sort by Reuters (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's governor and Wall Street lenders bargained on Friday ahead of the expiration of a stand-still pact in a bid to avert a bankruptcy filing on $3.2 billion of debt by the state's most populous county.
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Sort by The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) - 08/29/2008
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's governor and Wall Street lenders bargained on Friday ahead of the expiration of a stand-still pact in a bid to avert a bankruptcy filing on $3.2 billion of debt by the state's most populous county.
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Sort by AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) - 08/28/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Mitsubishi The Wall Street Journal talked to Mitsubishi President Osamu Masuko ahead of this week's Moscow Motor Show about some of the company's recovery, its involvement in the Russian market and its plans for marketing electric vehicles. Masuko reiterated earlier announcements that the the iMiEV would go on sale in Japan next summer at a price of about $27,400....
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Sort by The Cleanest Line (Free subscription) - 08/28/2008
I hinted at a treat for you last week and now it's live. Today Patagonia launched the Tin Shed, a multimedia mini-site (à la the Footprint Chronicles) that's loaded with dispatches from our friends and ambassadors traveling the wilder world...
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Sort by Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) - 08/28/2008
DENVER -- The Republican "war room" in Denver is not easy to find, tucked away off an alley a mile or so from the convention hall.
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Sort by Details are Sketchy (Free subscription) - 08/25/2008
The Bangkok Post today says that Cambodia intends to build a “Berlin-style” wall around Preah Vihear. Cambodia plans to build a Berlin-style wall to shut off Thailand and develop tourist facilities around the still disputed Preah Vihear temple, a senior official said on Sunday. The Cambodian government will build a series of walls at “complicated border areas,” [...]
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Sort by Jeff Weintraub (Free subscription) - 09/04/2008
(Noted by Josh Marshall at TPM.) HERE is a video clip of Mike Huckabee, running for the Republican presidential nomination, on August 8, 2007. If one listens to Huckabee talk, he sounds sincere. The first thing we've gotta do as a Republican party is quit being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the corporations that have done exactly what Steve [ a disabled former steelworker with a shrunken...
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Sort by Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110mph (177kph) winds yesterday then faded as it moved inland, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic...
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Sort by Denver Post (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110-mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina.
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Sort by kansascity.com (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.
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Sort by Next Generation (Free subscription) - 09/03/2008
There is a school of thought which suggests that, if they are to move forward and become taken more seriously as an entertainment medium, videogames need to have more recognisable creatives, that the people responsible for making them need to raise their profiles. read more
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Sort by Raw Story (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
Levees still holding, though some water cresting over; Storm now Category 1 .