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Bay St. survival: Half the pay for 100-hour weeks (Toronto Star)
Bay Street's cruel season is back. Jobs are scarce, bonuses small and 100-hour weeks common. Even the winners – those who get jobs – will lose: their family time and their bonuses.
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Services set for Lofgren family (BizJournals)
A memorial service for Parker Lofgren and his family will be held Dec. 5 at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Denver, according to information posted Monday on the St. Charles Capital website.
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Governors will push Obama for aid here (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A majority of the nation's governors will meet with President-elect Barack Obama this morning in Philadelphia to press him for a healthy share of the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus legislation his advisers and Democratic congressional leaders are drafting.
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This Season, Some Tempers Simmer (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
A cloud of financial tension hangs heavy over upcoming holiday festivities. For many, it means cuts into holiday budgets and more strain among family members.
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Big Three Automakers Submit Their Plans on Tuesday (WFMJ Youngstown)
Tuesday is the day America's big three automakers are supposed to produce plans for their survival. Car makers worked through the holidays on proposals designed to convince Congress that their industry needs a 25 billion dollar loan from the government.
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AgriCenter becomes official (The Rainsville Weekly Post)
RAINSVILLE–The long-discussed and sought-after AgriCenter is finally an official project, thanks to the hard work of local leaders and a $4 million dollar loan from the USDA. The regional telecommunications network will get a $24 million dollar upgrade from the same source as well.
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Baby talk (BBC News)
Is it ethical to add more people to our crowded planet?
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Baby decisions - adding to the world's woes? (BBC News)
As you decide whether or not to have children, should you take the world's increasing stack of environmental woes into account?
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Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low (AP via Yahoo! News)
A gauge of U.S. manufacturing activity that fell to a 26-year low Monday followed similarly weak readings in Europe and China, fueling fears of a deepening global downturn.
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'My employees are like family' (The Record)
RIDGEFIELD PARK — John T. O'Brien can still picture his boss's muddy shoes. O'Brien was an apprentice plumber, 20 years old, laying sewer pipe with his father in a trench inside a Manhattan bus terminal. The pipe took effort to move, and fitting it properly had proved especially taxing.
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