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Subway Restaurants Face Lawsuit Over “Footlong” Trademark

By doris | Published: February 8, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com CBS/AP) Does Subway own the rights to the word “footlong”…as in sandwich? It’s become a federal case. An Iowa-based convenience store has asked a federal judge to rule that the word “footlong” is part of the general English language and not the special property of the Subway restaurant chain. Ankeny-based Casey’s [...]

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Law schools face lawsuits over job-placement claims

By doris | Published: February 3, 2012

Full Story at USNewsmsnbc.msn.com Adam Bevelacqua graduated from Brooklyn Law School last year with $100,000 in debt but high hopes for his future. He passed the bar on his first try in New York and had internships to highlight on his resume. And, according to his research, the school’s job placement rate for new graduates [...]

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McDonald’s drops use of gooey ammonia-based ‘pink slime’ in hamburger meat

By doris | Published: February 1, 2012

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com McDonald’s confirmed that it has eliminated the use of ammonium hydroxide — an ingredient in fertilizers, household cleaners and some roll-your-own explosives — in its hamburger meat. The company denied that its decision was influenced by a months-long campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to get ammonium-hydroxide-treated meats like chicken and [...]

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Troops appear on streets as Nigeria president acts to cut fuel prices

By doris | Published: January 16, 2012

Full Story at WorldNews.msnbc.msn.com LAGOS, Nigeria — Soldiers have barricaded key roads in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos as the president offered a concession to halt fuel price protests that he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. Troops and police also blocked entrances to protest venues in Nigeria’s second-largest city of Kano on [...]

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No snow? Big problem for US ski resorts

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Let it snow: words that skiers and employees of resorts around the country are fervently repeating as flakes resist falling on slopes from California to New England. “It’s been a slow start for us,” said Ethan Austin, spokesman at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine, the largest ski area east of the Rockies. [...]

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Sears closing up to 120 stores as sales slide

By doris | Published: December 28, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com (Reuters) – Sears Holdings Corp will close as many as 120 of its Kmart and Sears discount and department stores after its holiday sales slumped, sending its shares sliding more than 27 percent to their lowest level in three years. The retailer, which is controlled by its chairman, the hedge fund [...]

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Waiting for midnight, hungry families on food stamps give Walmart ‘enormous spike’

By doris | Published: November 28, 2011

Full Story at RockCentemsnbc.msn.com At the stroke of midnight, a growing number of Americans are lining up at Walmart not to cash in on a holiday sale, but because they’re hungry. The increasing number of Americans relying on food stamps to survive the sluggish economic recovery has changed the way the largest retailer in the [...]

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Frederik Meijer, Meijer Inc. founder, dead at 91

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at us.Newsmsn.com Frederik Meijer, who built the regional retail powerhouse Meijer Inc. while nurturing his lifelong love of the arts, has died at age 91. The company confirmed his death in a statement Friday evening, saying the billionaire died at the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids after suffering a stroke in his [...]

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Black Friday violence: 2 shot in armed robberies, 15 others pepper-sprayed

By doris | Published: November 25, 2011

Full Story at usnews.msn.com Violence erupted at Black Friday sales across the U.S. with one bargain-hunter left critically injured after being shot during a robbery and 15 other people injured when an angry shopper used pepper spray. Several of the incidents took place at Wal-Mart stores as millions of Americans loaded up on holiday purchases. [...]

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Citi hikes fees on checking accounts

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The fees keep coming. Citi is the latest big bank to slap customers with a round of fee hikes. This time, on its checking accounts. Starting in December, customers who hold its mid-level Citibank Account will be charged $20 a month if they fail to maintain a [...]

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How safe is your hotel room safe?

By doris | Published: September 12, 2011

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com I don’t know about you, but the first thing I do when I check into a hotel is conduct an obligatory spot-check for bedbugs, unpack my belongings and place my passport, extra money and other items of value in the hotel safe, which, by name alone should be the best place [...]

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Search under way for 10 oil workers in Gulf of Mexico

By doris | Published: September 10, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company searched in rough seas Friday for 10 workers missing from a U.S.-owned oil vessel in the tropical-storm-roiled Gulf of Mexico. The workers, contracted by Texas-based Geokinetics, abandoned ship Thursday afternoon after Tropical Storm Nate caused their liftboat to take on water in the Bay of [...]

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After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

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Vegas tries to kick its water addiction

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas (CNN) — At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, [...]

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A big bounce, ounce by ounce, as gold takes off

By doris | Published: August 17, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — For what is normally a sleepy month, there are so many customers at the Gold Standard, a New York company that buys jewelry, that it feels like Christmas in August. Uncle Ben’s Pawn Shop in Cleveland has never seen a rush like this. Welcome to the new American [...]

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Rembrandt work stolen from California hotel

By doris | Published: August 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — A drawing by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000, was stolen from a hotel in Southern California in what sheriff’s investigators said was a well-planned heist.Story: Mobile scanner brings x-rays to old paintings The pen-and-ink drawing, believed to be called “The Judgment,” was nabbed Saturday night while a [...]

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Another massive rally for stocks as Dow soars 423 on optimism about economy

By doris | Published: August 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Wall Street’s wild week continued Thursday with a 423-point surge for the Dow Jones industrial average. Stocks shot higher after investors saw small signs that the economy might not be headed into another recession. With a 400-plus point move for the Dow, Thursday’s close marks the first time [...]

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U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar

By doris | Published: August 9, 2011

Full Story atmoney.cnn NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said “Not so fast.” Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe “advanced” airbags, arguing that complying with [...]

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Dozens charged in international child porn ring bust

By doris | Published: August 3, 2011

Full Story at Dozens charged in child porn ring bust – US news – Crime & courts – msnbc.com WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities said Wednesday they have dismantled a worldwide child pornography ring that traded illicit images over the Internet using sophisticated encryption. Investigators said an estimated 600 people used a private, members-only Internet bulletin [...]

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Calif. death, 76 illnesses linked to ground turkey

By doris | Published: August 2, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is scrambling to find the source of a salmonella outbreak likely linked to ground turkey that has killed one and sickened dozens more. Finding the source of an outbreak hasn’t been easy; the government has been chasing the illnesses for months. The Agriculture Department, which oversees [...]

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