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Greece to Eliminate 15,000 Government Jobs
The cuts are part of new austerity measures that Athens must agree on to secure rescue funds from international lenders.
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Bits Blog: Start-Up Nicira Plans to Disrupt Networking Giants
A small company called Nicira and a few other scrappy players are pursuing what is called software-defined networking.
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Emil Boc, Romanian Prime Minister, Resigns Amid Protests
After weeks of protests, Emil Boc, Romania’s prime minister, resigned Monday, the latest European leader to fall victim to a mood of public outrage over austerity measures and stagnant growth.
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Itineraries: Clever Ways to Avoid Airline Baggage Fees
As airlines come up with ever more inventive fees, travelers are figuring out creative ways to avoid them.
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Advertising: Super Bowl Commercials, From Charming to Smarmy
Risk-taking, rule-breaking ideas were as hard to find among the more than 50 Super Bowl commercials as good taste in a GoDaddy ad.
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Frequent Flier: With Champagne as Entry, Passport Control Is Easy
Michelle DeFeo, executive vice president of Laurent-Perrier Champagne in the United States, actually enjoys going through passport control.
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White House Moves to Tighten Sanctions on Iran
The actions include freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in this country.
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Daily Stock Market Activity
Share prices closed fractionally lower as investors awaited negotiations in Greece, where creditors were demanding austerity measures in return for more money.
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E.U. Rebuffs China's Challenge to Airline Emission System
The system, which requires airlines to account for all of their emissions on flights involving European airports, is the Union's boldest move to date to protect the climate.
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Media Decoder Blog: Verizon Teaming With Redbox for DVD and Streaming Service
The two companies will combine to try to give customers more access to video on the Web, and possibly position the new venture as an alternative to Netflix.
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The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly
The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.
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Mortgage Relief Plan Is Closer to Winning Support of California
Potential support from California and New York would come in exchange for tightening provisions in order to preserve the right to investigate past misdeeds by the banks, and stepping up oversight.
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Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.
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DealBook: Europe's Banks Reluctant to Aid Companies in Need of Cash
As profits and sales slip, some European companies are scrambling to pay their bills, at a time when banks grow increasingly hesitant to lend.
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BUSINESS: Business Day Live | February 6, 2012
The business model of social media sites like Facebook are threatened by the increasing use of mobile devices.
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DealBook: Lazard's Profit Plummeted in Fourth Quarter
Lazard, the investment bank, said on Monday that fourth-quarter earnings dropped 99 percent, as its core deal-making businesses took a hit.
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Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Took Research
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
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Economix Blog: Marriage Is for Rich People
Dwindling marriage rates are concentrated among the poor -- the very people whose living standards would be most improved by having a second household income.
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After a Year, The Daily Tablet Paper Struggles
The Daily has struggled to break into the national conversation or to drive news and build on its brand the way traditional outlets do.
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Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Saluting Teamwork
Military leaders want their troops to be committed to one another and their mission rather than going after individual rewards -- and maybe there's a lesson in that for the rest of us, an economist writes.
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Articles in this series are examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.
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BUSINESS: House Advantage: The Sure Thing
An animated explanation of how banks use securities lending to make a profit, while their customers cover the losses.
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