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Start repairing your bad credit rating now
It is never too soon for folks who have given up their homes to start pointing to the day when they will once again decide to take the plunge.
Whether you were able to persuade your lender to accept a payoff for less than what you owed and dump your...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Homes, Interior Policy, Mortgages, Foreclosures
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Products derived from natural, nontoxic ingredients -- once seen as fringe -- are now mainstream.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst of two parts At first, the experimental shampoo looked like a putrid salad dressing. Its oil and its water just couldn't get along. They separated in the bottle and, over time, the shampoo took on an ugly brown hue. The team at Avalon Organics,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Hazardous Materials, Chemical Industry, World War II (1939-1945)
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Oracle, PeopleSoft Seal $10.3-Billion Deal
Times Staff WriterBusiness software maker PeopleSoft today agreed to a sweetened $10.3 billion takeover offer from rival Oracle, ending one of the longest and most bitter corporate feuds on record. The announcement was a major victory for Oracle chief executive Larry...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Wages and Pensions, Jesus Sanchez, Companies and Corporations, Stock Activities
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Taking a chance on the rest of your life
There is not much time left.
You may be 50, or 64 or 32 when it hits you in the gut that life is finite and if you're going to make a contribution to this world, you'd better start making it.
In midlife, we reassess. We ask ourselves how we want to...Tags: Road Transportation, McGraw-Hill Incorporated, Transportation, Travel, Education
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Oracle Can Pursue Hostile Bid for PeopleSoft, Judge Decides
Times Staff WriterSAN FRANCISCO — In a rare defeat for U.S. antitrust enforcers, a federal judge cleared the way Thursday for software giant Oracle Corp. to press ahead with its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. Oracle still faces major obstacles to completing...Tags: Anti Trust Crime, Antitrust Issues, Laws, Witnesses, National Government
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Reports of resistance to terrorists on flight emerge
Chicago Tribune staff reportersIn the moments before United Airlines Flight 93 plunged nose-first into a scrubby field in western Pennsylvania, several passengers on the doomed airplane plotted a counterattack against the hijackers, an astounding act of heroism that may have averted...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Entertainment, Corporate Officers, Terrorism, Air Transportation
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Proposed Brawley lithium carbonate facility review lengthy
Staff WriterBRAWLEY -- The proposed construction of a production facility that could emit hazardous air emissions must first get certification from an environmental review process before receiving a permit from the Air Pollution Control District, an official said...Tags: Imperial County (California), Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, California, Air Pollution
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Strike could be looming at Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets
Money & CompanyHolding signs that said, "L.A. isn't Wisconsin," representatives of 62,000 unionized grocery store workers said Wednesday that they were very close to going out on strike against Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets. At a news conference at the Los... -
1970 Dodge relocates with moving family to many states
From the first time in early 1970 when William Ouellette saw the Dodge Challenger T/A in the North Star Dodge dealership in Brooklyn Park, Minn., he knew that was the car for him. Back in 1970, Ouellette was driving a well-worn 1965 Dodge Coronet 500...Tags: Car Engine Repair, Ford, Wisconsin, Livermore, Firearms
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San Franciscans all wound up for Giants' victory parade
L.A. NOWIn the early morning hours, San Francisco City Hall and Coit Tower glowed with orange lights. Black and orange balloons hung from lamp posts along Montgomery Street in the Financial District. And cable cars on California Street had celebratory signs...... -
Jon Fitch has new attitude about UFC title shot
The Fabulous ForumAccording to Jon Fitch, he has no one to blame but himself for his current exclusion from the UFC’s welterweight title picture, and he wants to do something about it. The former Purdue wrestler, who is ranked No. 2 behind...... -
Jon Fitch gets bigger opportunity against B.J. Penn at UFC 127
The Fabulous ForumJon Fitch: Jon Fitch missed the fights Saturday at UFC 123 in Auburn Hills, Mich., though had he’d known what a profound effect one of them had on his future, he would have tuned in....
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