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BP agrees to cut air pollution at refinery, pay $8-million fine
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced that BP North America Inc. has agreed to pay an $8-million fine and install more than $400 million in equipment to cut air pollution from an oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., as part of a settlement over...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Air Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Asthma
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Chinese cinema firm to buy AMC in $2.6-billion deal
A Chinese conglomerate took a big leap forward into the U.S. market late Sunday by acquiring AMC Entertainment Inc., the nation's second-largest theater chain. It was the latest in a flurry of high-profile deals between the nations' entertainment...
Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Beijing (China), Joint Ventures, Management (movie)
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Chinese cinema firm is seeking to buy all or part of AMC
China's biggest theater company is trying to get a foothold in the U.S. by picking up some or all of AMC Entertainment Inc., an arrangement that could further pry open the market for Hollywood films in the world's most populous country.
AMC, the second-...Tags: Vice (movie), Bain Capital, LLC, AMC (tv network), JPMorgan Chase & Co., Beijing (China)
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Classic Hollywood: Motion pictures in still photos
Over the last 41 years, film historian and author Marc Wanamaker had acquired some 200,000 photographs chronicling the history of film production in North America from 1909 until the present day. Many of these photographs are one of a kind. Eventually,...
Tags: Movies, Libraries, Charity, Entertainment, Science and Technology
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Ford profit dips, hurt by losses in Europe and Asia
Ford Motor Co. saw earnings dip in the first quarter, hurt by losses in Europe and Asia. The automaker continues do to well in the U.S., the company announced Friday, posting for the quarter its highest operating profit in North America in more than a...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Politics, Automotive Equipment, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace
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Ford offers pension buyouts to 90,000 retirees and former workers
Ford Motor Co. will offer about 90,000 U.S. salaried retirees and former employees vested in its pension plan a lump-sum payment to buy them out of monthly benefits. Ford, which also reported lower first-quarter earnings Friday because of losses in...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Employees
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Word of Mouth: Fox Searchlight hopes seniors check into 'Marigold Hotel'
About three years ago, producer Graham Broadbent visited the offices of Peter Rice, who was then running Fox Searchlight Pictures. Stacked near Rice's DVD player were discs of the senior citizen comedies "Cocoon" and "Cocoon: The Return." "There have to...
Tags: Judi Dench, Penelope Wilton, Martha Stewart, Dev Patel, Rachael Ray
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War on drugs takes center stage as Calderon meets with Obama
The unchecked scourge of drug violence in Mexico and that country's campaign to hobble the cartels is expected to overshadow economic discussions when Mexican President Felipe Calderon visits the White House today. Calderon will be meeting with President...
Tags: Politics, Felipe Calderon, Stephen Harper, Mexico, Petroleum Industry
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Worldwide TV shipments fell last year for first time since 2004
Worldwide TV shipments fell last year for the first time since at least 2004, slipping 0.3% to 247.7 million units.
Market research firm NPD DisplaySearch said Wednesday that LCD TV shipments rose by 7% to slightly more than 205 million units, a “...Tags: Japan, Europe, Sony Corp., China
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U2, Taylor Swift have highest-grossing concert tours of 2011
Pop & HissU2 has highest-grossing concert tour of 2011. In North America, Taylor Swift is second, followed by Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga and Bon Jovi.... -
Ski reports and forecasts for Southern California and the West
First, a little question: Does anybody hedge their bets the way a weather forecaster does? Predictions for this winter call for another La Niņa, the same cocktail of conditions that delivered last season's epic snowfall.
Sure to be a happy hour...Tags: Shaun White, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Julia Mancuso, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles Hotels
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