Forget the milk round, graduates offered a beer round The Times | Graduates struggling to find a job in traditional professions such as accountancy, banking and the media need not go to the pub and drown their sorrows. They can end up running one instead, thanks to an initiative by Britain's biggest pub landlord. | Punch Taverns, which has almost 7,000 leased an...
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Economy of Spain on the Edge The New York Times | MADRID — The idea that Spain could become a target of the world’s markets, an economic basket case weighing down the euro, is a preposterous notion, but not an unthinkable one. | It’s preposterous in the sense that this is a great, energetic, creative and competent nation that in...
Former Saints teammates file suit over investment The Boston Globe | NEW ORLEANS-New Orleans Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey and former defensive lineman Charles Grant are suing ex-teammate Kevin Houser over investments worth hundreds of thousands of dollars tied to a now-defunct movie studio. | Shockey and Grant pa...
Forget the milk round, graduates offered a beer round The Times | Graduates struggling to find a job in traditional professions such as accountancy, banking and the media need not go to the pub and drown their sorrows. They can end up running one instead, thanks to an initiative by Britain's biggest pub landlord....
Exec gets 25 years for $60M investment scam Houston Chronicle | LUBBOCK - A Lubbock businessman has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for a defrauding at least 250 investors of nearly $60 million. | Benny Lee Judah was sentenced in Lubbock on Friday. He had pleaded guilty on Nov. 12 to one count each...
Saratoga lawyer charged with investment fraud Business Journal Print Reprints RSS Feeds LinkedIn Share Comments Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | Get new image | Aud...
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New Tack Pays Few Dividends for White House Wall Street Journal By JONATHAN WEISMAN | President Barack Obama's decision to unveil his own health-care plan Monday signals a sharp tactical shift. After a year marked by extensive congressional con...
Apache Announces Concession Extensions in Egypt's Western Desert redOrbit Posted on: Thursday, 18 February 2010, 10:47 CST | HOUSTON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) announced today that Egypt's Ministry of Petrol...
Toyota bulls say recalls are making its stock a bargain The Dallas Morning News | NEW YORK - You can hate the cars but still love the stock. | Lost in the flurry of headlines recently about Toyota Motor Corp.'s recall over faulty gas pedals and brakes was news...
SEC: Miami couple defrauded elderly Cuban-Americans in $135M real estate investment scam Star Tribune | MIAMI - The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a prominent Miami couple with operating a $135 million Ponzi scheme through a real estate investment scam that defrauded hundreds of people, mostly elderly Cuban-Americans. | The SEC complaint ...
Economy of Spain on the Edge The New York Times | MADRID — The idea that Spain could become a target of the world’s markets, an economic basket case weighing down the euro, is a preposterous notion, but not an unthinkable one. | It’s preposterous in the sense that this is a great...
Budget winners: Oil & gas, banking and consumers The Times Of India Oil & gas: Win Some, Lose Some | The budget indicates the government’s intention to pay the oil subsidy only in cash and not in bonds, as was the practice till last year. This will automatically put a cap on how much the government can pay and indi...
IBM, Stanford Cite Advance in Plastic Recycling The New York Times | Filed at 12:05 a.m. ET | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When you recycle a plastic bottle, it doesn't necessarily become another plastic bottle. | Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in water bottles and food containers weakens so much when it's recycled that it can't be used again for the same purpose. Some small...
JSPL set to lose Al Mutun rights DNA India | Mumbai: Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) is about to lose mining rights at the world’s largest iron ore site, Al Mutun Bolivia, as the Naveen Jindal-led company has failed to make the necessary investments in the mine as per a contract signed with the Bolivian government in 2007. | The Bolivian government’s mining and metallurgical minis...
