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Investor with big stakes plans to drive turnaround
Tribune chief business correspondentWhen Alan Lacy took charge at Sears, Roebuck and Co. four years ago, he called his top executives to a meeting to talk strategy. A series of slides laid out Sears' plight--falling sales, a drooping stock price, ineffective marketing and high costs....Tags: Warren Buffett, Securities, Target Brands, Inc., Consumer Goods Industries, Insurance
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Mitochondrial politics
Here's what to watch for at next week's GOP minority-issues presidential debate at a historically black college in Baltimore: empty chairs. All four top Republicans have "scheduling conflicts." Even Republicans get that this is a problem. "We sound...Tags: Government, Politics, Political Candidates, Pocahontas, Caves and Caverns
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Jonah Goldberg: The Dems' identity crisis
NATIONAL REVIEW Editor Rich Lowry recently noted an explosion of "precriminations" among Republicans looking to assign blame for GOP losses in advance of election day. Blogger Glenn Reynolds offered a "pre-mortem" along similar lines. And the media have...Tags: Government, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Political Candidates
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Central Florida's Top Employers 2011: Washington Post Co. (Kaplan Inc.)
Kaplan University, which has its main campus in Davenport, Iowa, and its headquarters in Chicago, serves more than 53,000 online and campus-based students. The Orlando operation serves as an online student-support center. Kaplan University is part of...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, For-Profit Colleges, The Washington Post
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About Tribune theater critic Chris Jones
Chris Jones is the chief theater critic for the Chicago Tribune. He has reviewed and commented on culture, the arts, politics and entertainment for the Tribune for 15 years.
Along with being the paper's chief voice on local and national theatrical...Tags: Movies, The Ohio State University, Theater, Northern Illinois University, Education
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Washington Post launches Trove, a social-media news aggregation site
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe Washington Post Co. is venturing into the social-media business with Trove, its news aggregation website and mobile apps. Trove, which went live on Wednesday, pulls news from 10,000 sources across the Internet and sorts content by what a user's... -
The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: American Financial Group Inc.; CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.; CNA Financial Corp.; Hertz Global Holdings Inc.; Humana Inc.; Kellogg Co.; Loews Corp.; Pitney Bowes Inc.; Principal Financial Group Inc.; RadioShack Corp. Tuesday: --...Tags: Computer Associates, Alcatel SA, Chicago Tribune, Property, Humana Incorporated
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The Root doesn't reach far from the tree
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT'S only fitting that the Root, the new online black news, opinion and ancestry magazine launched by the Washington Post Co. almost two weeks ago, is still figuring out its identity. The small publication, created in 2 1/2 months, operates out of a...Tags: Journalism, Education, Slavery, News Media, Companies and Corporations
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Zell: I'm not in it just to flip
Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles TimesSam Zell insists he's a builder, not a breakup artist or an investor who flips companies to make a fast buck. "Every company I've ever been involved with I have built," said the real estate maverick, who orchestrated the deal this week to take Tribune...Tags: Chicago Real Estate, New York, Chicago Tribune, David Geffen, News Media
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Zell lands Tribune
Tribune staff reporterAfter an epic corporate drama, Chicago's Tribune Co. will go private in a transaction that puts the 159-year-old media conglomerate in the hands of the city's most iconoclastic entrepreneur. The deal is a high-stakes bet that a pillar of the nation's old-...Tags: New York, Radio Industry, Chicago Tribune, Credit Ratings, CareerBuilder
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Los Angeles Times, Other Media Hire Center To Review Florida Votes
This page has moved. If you are not automatically re-directed, please click here.Tags: Surveys, Referenda, Politics, Education, Chicago Tribune
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The competition
Sun StaffK-12 tutoring Kaplan Inc., New York, N.Y.: A Washington Post Co. subsidiary, it made its name in preparing students for college board exams but is branching out, like Sylvan. It now runs 200 K-10 learning centers called Score!; an Iowa college and...Tags: New York, Education, Adult Education, Japan, England
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