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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Prosecution, Insurance, Politics, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., University of Chicago
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Six Democrats vie for four Bethlehem City Council seats
With two incumbents not seeking reelection, the Democratic primary race for Bethlehem City Council includes some familiar names and political newcomers going after four seats. Eric Evans is seeking a second term on council and Karen Dolan a third....Tags: Politics, John Callahan, Housing and Urban Planning, Primaries, Interior Policy
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Chicago Tribune All-State Academic Team
Scott Beck By John P. Huston,Tribune reporter Scott Beck's brain isn't the only instrument he uses to help him excel at math and science. Beck, a Highland Park High School senior, turns to the French horn to "kind of keep me balanced and keep me...
Tags: Bill Gates, Haiti, Science, Learning Disability, University of Chicago
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Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says
Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...Tags: Unemployment Rate, Fort Meade (military base), Layoffs and Downsizing, Adecco SA, Unemployment
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Faith and Values: Jesus was clear about doing away with anxiety
The Allentown School District is right now faced with what has been termed a budgetary issue, but seems more like a question about vision — how will the district support its students in attaining the finest possible education now and in the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Economy, Business and Finance, Teachers, Anxiety, Allentown
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Burbank, Glendale schools hold breath over budget
Despite plans by Gov. Jerry Brown to spend roughly $1.6 billion more on education, local school officials this week remained only cautiously optimistic about their financial prospects. The additional funding included in Brown's budget revision...Tags: Politics, Media Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon facing push to drop chairman title
NEW YORK — A major shareholder vote next week has Wall Street abuzz over the power and future of Jamie Dimon, leader of the country's biggest bank. As chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Dimon burnished his reputation by steering...
Tags: Shareholders, Companies and Corporations, New York City, Politics, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings
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The Front Burner: Judging lawmakers on Medicaid
Get a good backgrounding in Medicaid from the Kaiser Family Foundation at kff.org/medicaid/. Florida's House and Senate worked as a team on some significant issues, including ethics reform, teacher pay raises and early voting, during the 2013...Tags: Government Health Care, Health Care Reform (2009), Rick Scott, Periodicals, Economy, Business and Finance
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Secure your finances before helping family
When Harold Seybert retired a few years ago, money wasn't his biggest challenge. After a 35-year career building an East Coast supermarket chain, a rise that required 15-hour workdays, he had to come to grips with what he had missed at home. "I was...Tags: Retirement, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance
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Healthy savings, no debt but worried about retirement
Call it retirement anxiety, or maybe recession obsession. For all of their married life, Patrick Webster, 63, and Susie Martin, 54, have been extremely frugal. Webster and Martin, who both work at Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes, have been...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Mutual Funds, Economy, Business and Finance, Stock Market
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Fiber optics headquarters to be built in Allentown
With its black color and sleek design jutting 10 stories into the Allentown skyline, a proposed new sales headquarters of United Fiber & Data is what you might expect for a company bankrolled by alternative rock band Live. "This is badass," said Bill...
Tags: Networking, Manhattan (New York City), Economy, Business and Finance, Applied Physics, Allentown
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Do your patriotic duty: Ask for a raise
Los Angeles TimesThe downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier....Tags: Prices, Employees, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance, Productivity
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