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Specter, Dent to meet with Valley business leaders
Sen. Arlen Specter and Rep. Charlie Dent plan to host a roundtable with Lehigh Valley business leaders Thursday to discuss the proposed $34 billion bailout of the auto industry, the lawmakers said today. The 10:15 a.m. discussion at Brown Daub dealership...Tags: Nazareth, Charlie Dent, Ford, Government, General Motors Corp.
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On top of stock declines, endowments and pension funds face losses on alternative investments
AP Business WritersNEW YORK (AP) _ College endowments and state pension funds plowed billions of dollars into hedge funds and private-equity investments as a way to balance their stock holdings, and for a time they got supercharged returns. Those days are over. From...Tags: Robert Wood, Interior Policy, Corporations, University of Virginia, Investments
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Alternative holdings sour for endowments, pensions
AP Business WritersCollege endowments and state pension funds plowed billions of dollars into hedge funds and private-equity investments as a way to balance their stock holdings, and for a time they got supercharged returns. Those days are over. From Harvard University to...Tags: Robert Wood, Interior Policy, Corporations, University of Virginia, Investments
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SEC adopts new rules aimed at stemming conflicts in credit-rating industry
AP Business WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal regulators on Wednesday adopted new rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for Wall Street's credit-rating industry, widely faulted for its role in the subprime mortgage debacle and ensuing...Tags: Securities, Interior Policy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Investments, Mortgages
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State agency posts personal data online
SunSentinel.comFor 19 days in October, the sensitive personal information of at least 250,000 Floridians was posted on a state government employment agency Web site, the agency's second such breach since 2006. The Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation inadvertently...Tags: Social Security, Interior Policy, Employment Agency, Wages and Pensions, Florida
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SEC adopts new rules for credit-rating agencies
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Federal regulators today adopted new rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for Wall Street's credit-rating industry, widely faulted for its role in the subprime mortgage debacle and ensuing credit crisis....Tags: Securities, Interior Policy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Investments, Mortgages
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Comptroller eyes former Hempstead lawyer's pension
eden.laikin@newsday.comDuring his six years as Hempstead Village attorney, W. Charles Robinson was paid a total of about $184,000 in public salary. Yet, for that same period, the village reported to the state comptroller's office that he was paid more than $1 million - an...Tags: Employees, Interior Policy, Lawyers, Accounting and Auditing, David A. Paterson
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Letters to the editor
The biblical Barak Re “Say it loud and proud,” editorial, Nov. 30 So much has been made out of Barack Obama's Muslim middle name, "Hussein," but little or nothing has been said about his first name. Biblical Israel's famed Deborah, a...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Forests, Monterey Park, Little Tokyo, Consumers
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Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse to cut around 650 jobs in Britain
LONDON (AP) _ Investment bank Credit Suisse says it will cut around 10 percent of its British work force, or 650 jobs. Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for the Swiss-based investment bank, would not provide more details Monday or comment on whether there...Tags: Investments, Investment Service, Banking
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Two worlds collide as lawyer fights for inmate husband
Second of Three Parts
"Well, it's dinnertime at the amazing Miss Weird's Place," Pamela Griffin wrote her husband, Robert, one night in 1986, sitting alone at her kitchen table with leftovers. "Tonight we have the famous incredible squash concoction --...Tags: Homes, Lawyers, Prosecution, Judges, Woody Allen
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Carona's mistress is seeking a separate trial
She sits every day at a defense table behind former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, occasionally twirling her short blond hair and looking bored. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An earlier online version of this article was accompanied by a...Tags: Office and Retail Spaces, Lawyers, Prosecution, Litigation, Judges
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Obama's national security team
Source: Associated Press.story_bullet { font:11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin:2px 0 0 7px; text-indent:-7px; } .byline { font:normal 10px Arial, sans-serif; color:#666; margin-bottom:1px; } .position { font:bold 10px Arial, sans-serif; color:#990000; margin-bottom:1px;...Tags: Heads of State, Corporate Officers, Lawyers, Diplomacy, United Nations
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