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Conversation with a Blue Wiggle (The Star)
When I was a teenager I was a Beatles fan. I liked to think that I was a groupie. I had all of the vinyl albums, the books, the teen magazines and I ate enough of that horrible bubble gum to have all of the Beatles fan cards. I dreamed of going to a concert and interviewing Paul or Ringo. Business And Careers (Lake City Reporter)
(ARA) - Gone are the days when women were expected to stay at home to dote on their children and husbands. Today's women have broken through the glass ceiling and are finding their way to corner offices around the country. BBB Column: TTY relay operators used to defraud businesses (Abilene Reporter-News)
We have all heard the phrase "buyer beware," but in this high-tech age of computer crimes more and more businesses are learning it is also "seller beware." The BBB received a call recently about an Abilene business that received a large order from someone using a hearing-impaired TTY (Text Telephone Yoke) service and stolen credit card numbers. Police reports, Nov. 23, 2008: See who was indicted in your neighborhood (The Hamilton Journal News)
Butler County Grand Jury Even in the face of high fuel costs and the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, (Business Standard India)
Anand Sankar finds the traditional shipping industry in Gujarat buzzing with life. The video on the mobile phone is silent and grainy. The wooden boat being tossed about in the grey ocean is hard to miss. A monster wave seeks to swallow the vessel. MONEY MARKETS-Dollar interbank rates ease, but hoarding goes on (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
* Bank-to-bank lending rates fall further in Europe El Paso gasoline prices take another dip (El Paso Times)
EL PASO -- El Paso's average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline fell 4.6 cents overnight to $2.211 on Tuesday, $1.756 lower than the record high of just four months ago, according to gas stations surveyed by AAA's Fuel Gauge Report Web site. MONEY MARKETS-Dlr funding costs ease,spreads show stress (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
(Refiles to add dropped name of source in final paragraph) Police Reports - Community Press Mason-Deerfield (Community Press & Recorder)
Mechanical and construction tools stolen from barn at 5470 Irwin Simpson, Mason, Nov. 17. Brown to target 'irresponsible' credit card firms (Guardian Unlimited)
Credit card companies were on a collision course with Gordon Brown last night after they rejected calls to reduce interest rates, some as high as 69%, after last week's shock cut in the Bank of England's base rate. In a clear signal that the prime minister is determined to make credit cards the next battleground in the financial crisis, he used his monthly press conference yesterday to ...
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