Clothing Retailer Accused Of Cheating Its Workers Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused Yellow Rat Bastard, a trendy clothier in SoHo, of cheating their workers out of more than $1 million.... Read Full Article Bank Of America To Close Money Market Fund The fund for institutional investors has withered from $40 billion to $12 billion in assets amid the subprime-mortgage crisis.... Read Full Article Ben Bernanke Triggers Dollar’s Fall To New Low The dollar plummeted to record lows and shares tumbled in New York and across Europe yesterday after Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, spooked markets with a prediction of US bank f... Read Full Article Krispy Kreme’s Chief Executive Quits Amid Turnaround The popular doughnut-making company said Daryl G. Brewster was leaving his position for personal reasons.... Read Full Article Gemstar-TV Guide To Look At Options, Including Sale The company, which publishes TV Guide magazine, hired UBS Investment Bank as a financial adviser. It gave no timeline for making a decision.... Read Full Article |
Meter NewsMeter is running on duration of the crunchReaders may have noted the appearance of our Crunch-o-meter in recent days. This is our attempt to reflect, day by day, whether the credit crunch is getting better or worse. No single measure can do this fully, of course, and there has already been some pointy-headed sniffing about our methodology. But it does, we hope, give a flavour of banks’ willingness to lend to one another and, therefore, the likely price and availability of credit to everyone else, whether personal or corporate, in future.Read Full Article Ofgem summit pledges action plan on fuel povertyEnergy companies pledged today to allow customers using pre-payment meters to change energy suppliers using switching sites as one of a number of initiatives designed to tackle the growing problem of fuel poverty.Read Full Article World Briefing | Europe: France: Arrests in Vandalism of Muslim Graves in NorthFour youths have been arrested in connection with the desecration of 148 Muslim graves in the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery.Read Full Article Muslim Graves Desecrated in FrancePresident Nicolas Sarkozy called the desecration of 148 Muslim graves in a war cemetery in northern France ’sordid.?Read Full Article MPs want water meters in every UK house to conserve waterA cross-party group of MPs is to call for water meters to be installed in all homes in the UK as soon as possible to help to conserve water.Read Full Article External News for: meterMichael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter reader - Washington PostMichael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter readerWashington Post... are critiqued: an understanding that Shakespeare was a poet and that the lines of all his plays are masterful renditions of meter and rhyme. ...Michael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter reader - Washington PostMichael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter readerWashington Post... are critiqued: an understanding that Shakespeare was a poet and that the lines of all his plays are masterful renditions of meter and rhyme. ...UW's Ortiz finishes 35th in 3-meter diving - USA TodayUW's Ortiz finishes 35th in 3-meter divingUSA Today(AP) — Wyoming diver Stephanie Ortiz closed out her career at the 2010 NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind., by placing 35th in 3-meter diving. ...and more »Michael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter reader - Washington PostMichael Hayden: an actor who's also a meter readerWashington Post... are critiqued: an understanding that Shakespeare was a poet and that the lines of all his plays are masterful renditions of meter and rhyme. ...UW's Ortiz finishes 35th in 3-meter diving - USA TodayUW's Ortiz finishes 35th in 3-meter divingUSA Today(AP) — Wyoming diver Stephanie Ortiz closed out her career at the 2010 NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind., by placing 35th in 3-meter diving. ...and more »10 records fall at Oregon Preview - KVALKVAL10 records fall at Oregon PreviewKVALThe record-setting day began with a record by Oregon's Claire Michel in the very first event, the women's 2000 meter steeplechase, and continued through the ...Oregon PrevieweDucks.com (subscription)Maag set for Ducks debut at Oregon Preview meetThe Register-GuardVin Lananna voted national women's indoor coach of the yearOregonLive.comOregonLive.comall 9 news articles » |
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