3 Jul 2008 at 9:52pm Carl Edwards drives by half-empty stands during the Auto Club 500 in Fontana, Calif., in February. Vacant seating has become a regular sight at many NASCAR races this season. DAYTONA BEACH ? Robin Braig would love to see Shirley Buttacavoli in the ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 7:04am What this country needs most of all is a sense of history. Recently I made a remark to someone that since our parish has a large Hispanic component, I was delighted to see that our bulletin is also in Spanish. I received the same hysterical reply I ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 2:25am SAN FRANCISCO - Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 12:59am GM is shrinking again. And this time, I?m not talking about its sales, market share or payrolls. The stock price dropped 15% to under $10 a share today, a 54-year low. It closed at $9.98 a share, which is off 72% over the past 12 months. The reason ...
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2 Jul 2008 at 9:53pm Brandon Armes eases a rental boat into Jack?s Boat Rentals at John?s Pass. Jack?s is offering discounts this weekend. "We're doing discounts to make sure over the weekend all of our equipment is on the water," said Peter Kucinski, owner of Jack ...
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2 Jul 2008 at 3:41pm NEW YORK -- Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged Wednesday to close below $10 for the first time in more than half a century, as investors shrugged off better-than-expected June sales and analysts raised concerns about the company's cash needs. GM ...
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1 Jul 2008 at 7:53pm Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy sayd the key change to his outlook for General Motors ( GM ) is a much lower forecast for U.S. auto sales that is driving a higher cash burn, necessitating a much larger capital raise than the market is expecting ...
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