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March 24, 2012

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(03-23) 17:38 PDT Saucier, Miss. (AP) -- Tom Pernice Jr., is off to a terrific start in soggy conditions at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic. In his first Champions Tour event this year, Pernice was 7 under through...
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(03-23) 17:25 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former MF Global executive appears to contradict testimony from Jon Corzine, saying the former senator and New Jersey governor ordered the transfer of $200 million last fall out of...
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(03-23) 17:00 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NRG Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a dispute over long-term contracts signed during California's energy crisis 10 years ago, and most of the money will be used...
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March 23, 2012

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(03-23) 16:23 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "...
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(03-23) 16:09 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities. The social networking...
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(03-23) 15:30 PDT Jupiter, Fla. (AP) -- Adam Wainwright pitched five shutout innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Miami 2-1 on Friday, overcoming Jose Reyes' first home run for the Marlins. Wainwright, who missed...
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(03-23) 15:29 PDT BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- President Cristina Fernandez has finally declassified a scathing review of the mistakes made by Argentina's military junta in going to war with Britain in 1982 trying to...
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(03-23) 13:31 PDT Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information...
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(03-23) 13:13 PDT New York (AP) -- Stocks are eking out small gains at the end of a week in which the market was weighed down by prospects of a global economic slowdown. The Dow closed up 35 points at 13,080 Friday....
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(03-23) 07:27 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of U.S. new homes fell in February for the second straight month, a reminder that the depressed housing market remains weak despite some improvement. The Commerce Department...
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At least 3.1 million Americans are employed in green jobs, a sector that now accounts for about 2.4 percent of the nation's total employment, the Labor Department said Thursday. The report represents the first time the...
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BrightSource Energy Inc., the developer of solar-thermal power plants, is seeking as much as $182.5 million in an initial public offering. The Oakland company is offering 6.9 million shares at $21 to $23 apiece,...
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Facebook acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines, adding intellectual property that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement, a person with knowledge of the transaction said. The patents...
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Number of the day 141% Ohio Art stock jumped that much Thursday after its Etch A Sketch toy became a metaphor for Mitt Romney's campaign. The thinly traded shares rose to $9.65 from $4. Wednesday, Romney aide Eric...
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Number of the day $227 million That's the value of the Zynga stake that CEO Mark Pincus is selling in a secondary stock offering. The San Francisco company, which dominates the market for social-networking games ("...
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The former owner of one of the nation's largest tomato processors pleaded guilty Friday to running the company as a racketeering enterprise that bribed purchasers, fixed prices and doctored lab tests of moldy tomato...
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BANKING SEC seeks Wells documents The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal judge to force Wells Fargo to comply with subpoenas as the agency investigates the bank's sale of almost $60 billion in...
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Is it pronounced mon-dah-LAY? Mon-dah-LEZZ? Oh, it's mohn-dah-LEEZ. That, according to corporate naming expert Nina Beckhardt, is the first problem with Mondelez, the name Kraft Foods Inc. plans to give its global...
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