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<title><![CDATA[Suffering U.S. economy drives a bourbon boom]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[To Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell, the piercing sounds of a warehouse rising in the Kentucky countryside are the sounds of prosperity.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Linked: Wage growth and economy]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[All those job cuts at automakers, newspapers and even Starbucks are hard to stomach. But in a roundabout way, they may actually help the economy a bit.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lines likely to grow]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Unemployment lines, painfully long this July Fourth, are only going to get longer.

The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Utah state offices to switch to 4-day workweek to save]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday."]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Service sector contracted in June]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The nation's services sector declined unexpectedly in June after two months of growth, as new orders fell sharply and oil prices took their toll on businesses.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:39:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stock dives as bid pulled]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Circuit City Stores Inc. plummeted to historic lows in trading yesterday after Blockbuster Inc. withdrew its takeover bid, causing investors to question Circuit City's future.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Insurer paying $900M to settle an options-backdating lawsuit]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[UnitedHealth Group Inc. cleared its decks of bad news yesterday, announcing a lower profit outlook, a restructuring that will trim 4,000 jobs and a $900 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit over options backdating.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Starbucks, burned by too rapid expansion, will close 600 stores]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[For 10 years it appeared that there was no such thing as too many Starbucks stores for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street -- and sometimes even a third.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wal-Market: Locally grown produce lines shelves of Wal-Mart in new chainwide effort]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon sweet onions while aisles in New York display state-grown eggplant, as Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, says it has become the nation's largest buyer of locally grown fruits and vegetables.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Still Leading]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jul/02/gm-keeps-title-as-no-1-in-us-sales/?business-nationworld]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[General Motors Corp. soundly beat Toyota Motor Corp. in June to retain its traditional U.S. sales lead, but GM sales still dropped 18.2 percent during a dismal month for big automakers.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Study: Few workers have cash to retire]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Four out of five workers aren't saving enough to maintain their lifestyle after retirement, with women being at a disadvantage because of their longer life spans and lower pay, according to a study released yesterday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fuel costs make waves]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Each week, Ira Cooper opens a letter from another supplier with the same message as the last: We're raising our prices, effective immediately. We can't tell you how long the new prices will last.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hackers take millions with Citibank users' PIN codes]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AAA: Gas prices expected to keep drivers off road]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Record gas prices are dampening travel plans in North Carolina and South Carolina, according to AAA Carolinas.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crop shifting is taking toll on cotton]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[U.S. cotton acreage has hit its lowest level in 25 years as farmers have continued to shift acres to higher-priced corn and soybeans.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crude briefly tops $143]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The price of crude oil hit yet another record on the last day of a tumultuous first half, spurting past $143 a barrel before ending lower on demand fears and a resilient dollar. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell pays former CFO $300K for help during SEC probe]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Dell Inc. gave its former chief financial officer $300,000 last week for helping manage Dell's responses to investigations of its accounting practices.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Volatility marks 1st half of 2008]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wall Street ended an arduous first half quietly yesterday, closing mixed as investors again based their trades on what is now the dominant force in the market: the price of oil. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wachovia stock slides 4.3%, ends at $15.53]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Share prices for Wachovia Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. bank, dropped to the lowest since it was formed in the $14.9 billion buyout by First Union Corp. in 2001.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting laid off can be an incentive for finding a better job Career]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jun/29/getting-laid-off-can-be-an-incentive-for-finding-a/?business-nationworld]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Nine months into her first job, Mary Wisniewski returned from a business trip to Switzerland in April and was laid off.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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