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Cars, home improvement give April retail sales a boost
Spring’s arrival late in April gave retail sales a light boost as Americans emerged from hibernation to spend on cars, gardening goods and building supplies. From March to April, sales rose a slight 0.1% after declining a revised 0.5% from...
Tags: Vehicles, Home Improvement, Petroleum Industry, Services and Shopping, Economic Indicator
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Rupert Murdoch
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Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?
Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...
Tags: Strikes, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Shipping Service, Career and Workplace
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National Retail Federation applauds tentative ports labor pact
The National Retail Federation is applauding a tentative contract agreement between the union that represents 14 East Coast and Gulf coast seaports and an alliance of shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations. The Federal Mediation and...
Tags: International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Walmart
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What fiscal cliff? Shoppers push up retail sales, prices fall
This post has been updated. See below for details.Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping. Retail sales across the nation rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December as Americans put fiscal cliff...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Vehicles, Lifestyle and Leisure, Services and Shopping, Consumers
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Retailers express relief that L.A.-Long Beach port strike is over
The nation's retailers are among those most relieved that the 8-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is over. Although the movement of goods to the U.S. from Asia for the holiday season had been largely completed weeks ago, the...
Tags: Barack Obama
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Port strike numbers are out to sea
Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Services and Shopping, Shipping Service, Collective Contract
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Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension
The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Shipping Service, International Relations, Career and Workplace, Collective Contract
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White House issues new warning on 'fiscal cliff'
WASHINGTON -- On the heels of record sales over the Black Friday weekend, the White House warned that automatic federal tax increases set for next year could hurt the rest of the holiday shopping season and would likely crimp consumer spending by about...
Tags: Politics, Fiscal Cliff, Black Friday (shopping), Services and Shopping, Personal Income
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Black Friday shopping hunt for deals starts earlier this year
FrameworkThe annual rush to shop this holiday season got underway in earnest Thanksgiving as retailers began early putting out their Black Friday specials and crowds showed up to check out the bargains.... -
Weekend Talk Shows for Nov. 24-25: Carl Levin; John McCain; Richard Gere
Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY The Chris Matthews Show What makes great presidents; President Obama’s study of his greatest predecessors. (N)...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Talk Shows (genre), Richard Gere, Travel, Jon Kyl
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