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Iran considers lopping zeros off currency
01.09.2008 08:21
washingtonpost.com
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran is considering lopping three to four zeros off its currency, a top official said Monday, in an apparent effort to fight out-of-control inflation that many critics blame on the country's hardline president.
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Sale of Dresdner Bank to cost thousands of jobs
01.09.2008 08:21
washingtonpost.com
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Commerzbank's purchase of German rival Dresdner Bank AG will cost thousands of jobs, but analysts said Monday it will benefit insurer Allianz SE, which agreed to sell Dresdner over the weekend in a 9.8 billion euros ($14.44 billion) deal.
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MIKE WENDLAND: Monitoring Gustav via Twitter
01.09.2008 06:34
freep.com
Twitter has become a must check for those looking for the latest on just about any major story. But when it's an event like Hurricane Gustav and New Orleans, monitoring the latest tweets from Twitter users in the path of the storm is almost like being there.
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New Orleans Feeling the Effects of a Weakening Gustav
01.09.2008 06:26
washingtonpost.com
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1 -- A weakening Hurricane Gustav
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Gustav not expected to gain strength; New Orleans clears out
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Hurricane Gustav, still a menacing Category 3 storm bringing the threat of heavy rain and flooding, roared toward the largely ...
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Gustav not expected to gain strength; New Orleans clears out
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Hurricane Gustav, still a menacing Category 3 storm bringing the threat of heavy rain and flooding, roared toward the largely ...
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Social Life
Nevada governor chides Forest Service over fire
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Nevada's governor has criticized a U.S. Forest Service decision to let a wildfire burn unchecked for two weeks, allowing it to ...
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Katrina rebuilding efforts confront low literacy rate
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Three years after Katrina, residents of New Orleans are still buried in a blizzard of government paperwork. But for thousands ...
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Drivers use OnStar to evade Gustav
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
For the most part, the callers were calm, patiently asking for the fastest path out of New Orleans or some other Gulf Coast city ...
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Americans labor longer to make ends meet
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working ...
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Social Life
Gustav shutters Gulf refineries
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
Hurricane Gustav's threat to the Gulf Coast halted about 15% of U.S. refining capacity Sunday, though for now prices at the pump ...
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City leaders confident New Orleans police won't bolt
01.09.2008 04:38
usatoday.com
More than a week ago, at the first hint Gustav could be a threat to New Orleans, police Superintendent Warren Riley issued an ...
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Calif. man tries to amputate own arm
01.09.2008 04:37
usatoday.com
Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into ...
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Gustav exodus includes Florida, Alabama, Miss.
01.09.2008 04:37
usatoday.com
Louisiana residents aren't the only ones running from Hurricane Gustav.
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Jam-packed Sunday challenges a jazz critic's stamina
01.09.2008 04:31
freep.com
If any more evidence was needed that the Detroit International Jazz Festival has elevated its product in the last two years, the gloriously stuffed schedule of overlapping talent on Sunday was it. The laws of metaphysics made it impossible to hear it all, and no sane person would even try to ingest as much as I did. Of course, jazz critics have never been known for their mental stability.
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