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Wireless venture LightSquared files for bankruptcy protection
LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Regulators blocked the company's plan last winter because of concerns that its transmissions would interfere with GPS...Tags: Mutual Funds, Companies and Corporations, Satellite and Cable Service, Financially Distressed Companies, Jefferies Group Inc
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GDP: U.S. economy expands at lackluster 2.2% rate in 1st quarter
WASHINGTON — The American economy grew at a sluggish rate in the first quarter, stirring more doubts about the strength of the recovery and the outlook for jobs in coming months.
The economy expanded at a lackluster 2.2% annual rate in the first...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Companies and Corporations, Banking, Career and Workplace, Federal Reserve
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Civil War mystery: Faces of Monitor sailors re-created
This is really a cold case.
Nearly 150 years after the Civil War ironclad the Monitor sank, an effort was launched Tuesday to identify the remains of two of its sailors.
Officials in Washington unveiled forensic reconstructions of the faces of the two...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dental Health, Hampton Roads
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UPS goes European with $6.8 billion purchase of TNT Express
The United Parcel Service Inc.’s brown-suited hordes will have even more access to Europe once the delivery giant’s new $6.8 billion deal with Dutch company TNT Express goes through.
Hoofddorp, Netherlands-based TNT agreed to be bought by UPS...Tags: Europe, Companies and Corporations, Netherlands, Weaponry, FedEx Corporation
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Online shopping: Better for the environment?
L.A. at HomeOnline shopping versus brick and mortar: Studies show that despite the packaging and delivery trucks associated with shopping online, it's usually still a greener way to shop than driving to a local brick and mortar store.... -
A 'Brown Bailout' for UPS is more like a FedEx shackling
Top of the TicketWhat can brown do for you? Some think it should be: What can your government do for brown? Opposition to an otherwise innocuous reauthorization bill from the Federal Aviation Administration is showing up around the web. The United Parcel Service...... -
Presto, I'm a package! Magician: I was freight
A magician who claimed he transported himself in a crate aboard a cargo plane from upstate New York to Las Vegas and posted videos detailing the "trip" online now admits it was an elaborate hoax. "It was a publicity stunt right from the start," Wade...Tags: Syracuse, Transportation, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Entertainment, Stranger Than Fiction
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UPS has found ways to work in traffic
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLos Angeles has some of the most congested streets and highways in the nation, but Gil Cordova, a veteran driver for United Parcel Service, is rarely stuck in traffic. The country's largest delivery company plans it that way. The shortest, most...Tags: Death, Vehicles, Entertainment, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Ron Carey dies at 72; Teamsters president ousted amid financial scandal
Associated PressRon Carey, a former president of the Teamsters who pledged to rid the union of mob corruption but was later forced from leadership in a financial scandal, has died. He was 72. Carey died Thursday at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens of...Tags: Crimes, Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Career and Workplace, Queens (New York City)
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Companies fund projects to preserve Amazon rain forest
Deep in the Amazon, in a village accessible only by boat, river dwellers for generations have survived off fish, sparse crops and nuts from the forest.
Now they have a new resource: debit cards.
"If money increases, then life gets better," said...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Forests, Companies and Corporations, American Electric Power Company Incorporated, Brazil
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Federal officials reject restrictions on night flights at Bob Hope Airport
L.A. NOWFederal officials today dealt a blow to a decades-long fight to restrict nighttime flights at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. The Federal Aviation Administration rejected a request by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for a curfew. The FAA... -
The reality of rationing
Opponents of the main Democratic proposals for healthcare reform warn that consumers would be stopped from getting the care they need when they need it. President Obama's plan is "rationing," one political strategist blogged. It's an unrealistic...Tags: Medicaid, National Government, Health, Medicare, Healthcare Policies
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