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<title>Chinese Seek to Buy American Maker of Disk Drives</title>
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<description>The overture for Seagate Technology from a Chinese technology company has raised concerns among U.S. government officials about risks to national security.</description>
<author>JOHN MARKOFF</author>
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<title>As Woes Grow, Mortgage Ads Keep Up Pitch</title>
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<description>Despite troubles in the mortgage business, advertising that critics say is often misleading continues unabated.</description>
<author>LOUISE STORY and VIKAS BAJAJ</author>
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<title>With Software and Soldering, a Non-AT&T iPhone</title>
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<description>A 17-year-old New Jersey resident has published instructions on how to unlock Apple’s iPhone so it will work on some competing cellular networks.</description>
<author>BRAD STONE</author>
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<title>To Woo Europeans, McDonald’s Takes an Upscale Turn</title>
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<description>The company’s strategy of remodeling its restaurants and tailoring its menu options is paying off in Europe.</description>
<author>JULIA WERDIGIER</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Altria Board to Consider a Spinoff Overseas</title>
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<description>The parent company of Philip Morris is considering whether to spin off the international arm of its cigarette business.</description>
<author>ANDREW MARTIN</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:48:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Your Money: If There’s a High-Definition TV in Your Future, Wait Till After the Holidays</title>
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<description>Electronics retailers are selling more HDTVs than ever, but are making less money on them, so they are tightening return policies, dropping entry-level models and pushing additional services.</description>
<author>ERIC A. TAUB</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Executive Pursuits: In the Corner With the Gladiators: Trying Out the Life of the Cut Man</title>
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<description>Cut men tend to the wounds of mixed martial arts fighters, who combine elements of boxing, wrestling, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in one of the country’s fastest-growing sports.</description>
<author>HARRY HURT III</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New-Home Sales Climb, Giving Markets a Break</title>
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<description>New home sales rose 2.8 percent in July, only the second time this year that such sales increased from the previous month.</description>
<author>JEREMY W. PETERS</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bank of China Shares Plunge</title>
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<description>Shares in the Bank of China dropped 5.4 percent on Friday after it disclosed that it held nearly $9.7 billion in securities backed by subprime mortgages.</description>
<author>DAVID LAGUE</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Basic Instincts: Cards Train Teenagers to Use Plastic</title>
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<description>Credit card companies are increasingly marketing a variety of cards that are a hybrid of credit, debit and gift cards to teenagers.</description>
<author>M. P. DUNLEAVEY</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:40:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Luxury Miami Condo Conversion Is Facing Financial Trouble</title>
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<description>Miami’s Savoy Hotel development may be facing foreclosure, leading banks to start taking a second look at the relatively unscathed luxury housing market.</description>
<author>CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:34:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Two Big Law Firms in Merger Talks</title>
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<description>Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae are considering a merger that would create one of the nation’s biggest legal adivsers, with nearly 1,300 lawyers.</description>
<author>MICHAEL J. de la MERCED</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:43:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>[TS] Talking Business: Running an Empire? No Sweat</title>
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<description>Despite a tough ride as Time Warner C.E.O., Richard D. Parsons prefers that you never see him busting his chops.</description>
<author>JOE NOCERA</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Saturday Interview: Green and Fashionable</title>
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<description>George Feldenkreis, chairman of fashion giant Perry Ellis International, talks about the difficulties of taking fashion green and why his company will continue to try.</description>
<author>CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:35:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stocks & Bonds: After Calm Week, Dow Up 142</title>
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<description>Stocks were up on Friday after stronger-than-expected new home sales in July and another report showing a rise in factory orders for big-ticket items.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:42:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Wachovia Sues Mortgage Specialist Firm in Dispute Over Collateral</title>
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<description>Wachovia is suing Thornburg Mortgage for failing to return collateral used in a derivatives transaction.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>American Instincts in a French Executive</title>
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<description>Denis Hennequin, head of McDonald’s European division, has combined European roots and American tastes to make his unit among the company’s most successful. </description>
<author>JULIA WERDIGIER</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:25:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Five Days: Wall Street, Still a Little Wobbly, Steadies Itself</title>
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<description>While stocks leveled off after the Fed’s rate cut, the woes from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market continued to claim more victims.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:36:33 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Guilty Plea Is Arranged in Tax Plot</title>
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<description>Gene F. Haas, owner of the nation’s largest maker of machine tools, agreed on Friday to plead guilty to conspiracy in tax evasion and will face two years in prison.</description>
<author>DAVID CAY JOHNSTON</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:55:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What's Online: Click if You Read This Column</title>
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<description>Online ads can be effective even when not eliciting clicks; opinions on environmental policy are not heavily influencing Americans’ voting decisions and more.</description>
<author>DAN MITCHELL</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:51:51 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What’s Offline: Praising Private Equity</title>
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<description>Maybe the conventional wisdom about private equity firms is wrong; more than half of all Americans receive their income from the government and more.</description>
<author>PAUL B. BROWN</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:52:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Burger King Reports Fourth-Quarter Profit</title>
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<description>MIAMI (AP) -- The turnaround continues at Burger King.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:10:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Heinz Profit Up 6 Percent, Lifts View</title>
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<description>PITTSBURGH (AP) -- H. J. Heinz Co. said Friday its fiscal first-quarter earnings grew 6 percent, driven by double-digit growth in ketchup, beans, soups and Smart Ones meals, and the ketchup maker raised its outlook for the full year.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:50:29 GMT</pubDate>
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