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- The power company, which emerged from bankruptcy protection last month, reported net income of $2.69 billion versus a loss of $1.77 billion in 2006, as electricity sales rose 9 percent. |
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- Revlon, the cosmetics maker controlled by the financier Ronald O. Perelman, posted its first quarterly profit in two years, bolstered by sales outside the United States and by savings from ending its Vital Radiance line. |
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POTD!! (Feb 29 2008 21:00 GMT) - -by Nina Buik Here’s the priceless photo of the day. Scooter girl, Suzanne, zipping around HPTF&E. You go girl! |
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- Centerview Partners, has not suffered like many of its king-size rivals; it has become one of the few standout successes in these turbulent times on Wall Street. |
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- [Site News for A.P.Lawrence Unix, Linux and Mac OS X Resources] - 2008/02/29 Every now and then I like to remind y'all about the Unix and Linux consultants list we maintain here. It's absolutely free to list yourself here if you are offering any Unixish services, including building websites on Unix/Linux/Mac OSX, programming in any of those, offering consulting, etc. Just send me the information requested at Find a Consultant and I will add your listing. |
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- NASA has chosen two aerospace companies to develop a commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the International Space Station. |
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- After the destruction of the satellite, some foreign powers have suggested the episode was actually a test of space weaponry. |
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- Stocks sank Thursday as investors fretted over a rise in unemployment claims and the prospect of more bank failures. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 112 points, ending a four-day winning streak. |
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- For nearly two decades Evan Dooley quietly made a living trading commodities like wheat in his home state, Tennessee, far from the hurly-burly of Wall Street. |
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- Scientists believe they now know how sediment deposits spilling out of the mouth of some water channels on Mars were shaped in a series of terraces. |
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- Time Warner announced Thursday that New Line Cinema would become a unit of Warner Brothers, ceasing to operate as a full-service, stand-alone unit. |
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- A smelting firm in Bahrain is seeking more than $1 billion in a lawsuit against Alcoa, accusing it of a 15-year conspiracy involving overcharging, fraud and bribery. |
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- Received a notice from VW that Ted has an open recall, but it didn’t say what it was for. He’s scheduled to go in to the dealer on the 24th. In happier news, his radio was installed last week and it’ |
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- Leaping toward the modern calendar. (Note: Audio will be available tomorrow.) |
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- Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own. |
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- Ruh-roh. The Financial Times reports Bernanke predicts bank failures. "Some small US banks are likely to fail as a result of the housing crisis, Ben Bernanke said yesterday, warning that his country faced a more difficult situation than in the aftermath of the dotcom bust in 2001. 'There will probably be some bank failures,' the Fed chairman told the Senate banking committee in his second day of biannual testimony to Congress. He said the banks at risk were 'small and in many cases de novo [new] banks that are heavily invested in real estate in localities where prices have fallen'. |
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- February 29th, 2008 9:00pm |
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- The computer company has been trying to make a fundamental strategic shift in order to restore its reputation for strong growth and high profit margins |
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- Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware If you've ever used the Windows utility MSConfig to remove your Windows startup menus, you've probably noticed that the applications aren't really gone. They're just disabled. You could go and delete them using a registry editor or a more powerful tool like AutoRuns. Or you could permanently delete entries using MSConfig Cleanup. |
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- Filed under: Nintendo DS Just as with our beloved DS Lite, DS Fanboy Lite is like the original, but smaller. Sleeker. Only not necessarily better. Herein you can see some of the best we've had to offer in the last week, encapsulated for your reading ease. |
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- CLEVELAND, Feb. 29, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Athersys, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHX) today announced it will present at the Second Annual SIGnificant Investment Options in Healthcare Conference, hosted by Susquehanna Financial Group, to be held March 4-5, 2008, at The W Hotel in New York City. |
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- Omaha World-Philippine - Miller’s honor from the Paradise Philippines to a someone in the United States explained how soldiers would obligate prisoners to divulge the positioning of unseeable weapons. |
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- 17cm x 11cm, oil on gessoed card at auction |
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- We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Gothamist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Campaign for New York's Future, encouraging you to send a letter in support of congestion pricing. Missy Higgins, with an album that is available now. Elsewares, where you can get a 10% off your order with the discount code "ist". |
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- Sarà aperta anche sabato 1 e domenica 2 marzo la mostra dedicata ai progetti che hanno partecipato al concorso per la realizzazione della nuova biblioteca di Maranello Il concorso, vinto dallo Studio Arata Isozaki Associati di Milano, ha raccolto le proposte di circa 150 studi e architetti da tutta Italia e anche dall'estero: una partecipazione molto ampia, con progetti interessanti e di qualità, che l'amministrazione comunale ha deciso di condividere con tutta la cittadinanza con l'allestime... |
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