Investor Pushes Expansion At Kraft But Seeks Sale At Wendy’s
Kraft Foods, in which Nelson Peltz, an activist investor, has taken a 3 percent stake, said that it would offer $7.2 billion for the cookie unit of Group Danone....
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Observatory: Scientists Blend Materials To Create Oil-Repellent Surfaces
Scientists have succeeded in making oil-repellent, or superoleophobic, surfaces....
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Slightly Rattled And Yet Supremely Self-Assured
P J Harvey’s concert offered a chance to see how the quietly unsettling new songs fit with some of the thunderously unsettling old ones....
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Tate & Lyle Share Plunge Puts Chief Under Pressure To Quit
Iain Ferguson, the chief executive of Tate & Lyle, is facing mounting pressure from investors to resign after a surprise profits warning last week that wiped nearly £750 million from the group&...
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NASA Official Plays Down A Troubled Soyuz Landing
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State Watch for 2 Percent of Doctors

More than 2 percent of all doctors practicing in New York last year landed on the state medical board’s watch list because of problems including substance abuse or their professional conduct.<br/><br/>
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The American patient gets a big dose of aid

ONE TEAM of ecomedics has done what it can. Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve Board monetary-policy gurus dropped their short-term interest rate another 0.25 percentage points last week, to 2%, and told their patient, the American economy, not to look for another shot in the arm. We might do more for a few patients, since the banks in our care seem to be suffering from a reduced ability to function normally, but that is about it.
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Global Update: Blood Pressure Is Most Lethal in Poor and Middle-Income Countries

A new study has found that about 80 percent of the world’s deaths from high blood pressure occur in poor and middle-income countries.
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Theme Parks Help Disney’s Quarter

The media conglomerate, under scrutiny as an indicator of whether weakness is seeping deeper into the economy, said that operating income in its parks and resorts unit rose 33 percent.
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Estee Lauder Profit Falls as Sales Weaken

The cosmetics company reported third-quarter profit of $90.1 million, down 4 percent from the same period a year ago, as sales slowed amid a weakening retail environment.
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Fox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On Congress - FOXNews

The GuardianFox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On CongressFOXNewsA Fox News poll released Friday found that 78 percent of voters favor establishing term limits for Congress. That's nearly five times as many as oppose ...Election 2010 surprise: rise of black RepublicansChristian Science MonitorWhat Does the Generic Republican v. Democrat Ballot Say About Election 2010?U.S. News & World ReportAnalysis: Democrats face grim election prospectsReutersNew York Times -TIME (blog) -Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)all 977 news articles »

Fox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On Congress - FOXNews

The GuardianFox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On CongressFOXNewsA Fox News poll released Friday found that 78 percent of voters favor establishing term limits for Congress. That's nearly five times as many as oppose ...Election 2010 surprise: rise of black RepublicansChristian Science MonitorWhat Does the Generic Republican v. Democrat Ballot Say About Election 2010?U.S. News & World ReportAnalysis: Democrats face grim election prospectsReutersNew York Times -TIME (blog) -Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)all 977 news articles »

Twitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since April - PC World

Telegraph.co.ukTwitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since AprilPC WorldTwitter's mobile user base has spiked 62 percent since mid-April, thanks in great part to the release of official Twitter applications for iPhone, Android, ...Mobile Apps Helps Boost Twitter Membership to 145MPC MagazineTwitter Counts 145M Users, 62% Hike in MobileeWeekTwitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 PercentGigaOm (blog)Online Social Media (blog) -CNET (blog) -AFPall 515 news articles »

Fox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On Congress - FOXNews

The GuardianFox News Poll: 78 Percent Favor Term Limits On CongressFOXNewsA Fox News poll released Friday found that 78 percent of voters favor establishing term limits for Congress. That's nearly five times as many as oppose ...Election 2010 surprise: rise of black RepublicansChristian Science MonitorWhat Does the Generic Republican v. Democrat Ballot Say About Election 2010?U.S. News & World ReportAnalysis: Democrats face grim election prospectsReutersNew York Times -TIME (blog) -Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)all 977 news articles »

Twitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since April - PC World

Telegraph.co.ukTwitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since AprilPC WorldTwitter's mobile user base has spiked 62 percent since mid-April, thanks in great part to the release of official Twitter applications for iPhone, Android, ...Mobile Apps Helps Boost Twitter Membership to 145MPC MagazineTwitter Counts 145M Users, 62% Hike in MobileeWeekTwitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 PercentGigaOm (blog)Online Social Media (blog) -CNET (blog) -AFPall 515 news articles »

Delta Air Lines traffic up 1.1 percent in August - BusinessWeek

Kansas City StarDelta Air Lines traffic up 1.1 percent in AugustBusinessWeekDelta Air Lines Inc., the world's largest airline, said Friday its traffic in August inched 1.1 percent higher as a continued international uptick was ...Delta Air Lines Reports August TrafficMarketWatch (press release)Delta traffic continues to climb in AugustBizjournals.comall 182 news articles »

 
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