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Prepaid calling card business riddled with fraud
Associated PressRosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. There were the cards that didn't deliver as many minutes as promised and the cards that charged extra...Tags: Bill Nelson, Banking, Prosecution, Consumers, Corporate Crime
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Stacking up the savings
With the economy in turmoil, consumers can't count on much these days. Getting loans for cars, houses or anything else is no sure bet. Credit card companies are clamping down on credit limits. The stock market is taking investors on the bumpiest of...Tags: Stock Market, Vehicles, Finance, Gaming and Lotteries, Stock Broking
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It's still not too late to save some green before Black Friday
You might think it's too soon to think about holiday shopping, weeks before Halloween, but it's a great idea. You don't need to know what you're going to buy, but you need to know how you're going to pay for it. Can you save $1,000 by Black Friday and...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Hobbies, Public Holidays, Vacations, Halloween
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Her hope, and then her curse
Chicago Tribune reporterI always dreamed that when I grew up I would marry . . . the man of my dream, tall, dark & handsome, educated with a great job." —Kimberly Garnett, in a college essay It must have looked like Kimberly Garnett's dream had just walked into the Club...Tags: Pets and Pet Supplies, Robert Morris, Prosecution, Family, Transportation
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Masters of the ground game, Republicans see their forte challenged by Obama's motivated masses
Associated Press WriterBLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) _ Barack Obama, a former community organizer, is spending untold millions of dollars to identify and mobilize voters, and Republicans acknowledge that John McCain's team probably will be outspent and outmanned. They hope it won't be...Tags: Regional Elections, Voting, Barack Obama, Government, Telecommunication Service
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Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market
Associated PressRosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. There were the cards that didn't deliver as many minutes as promised and the cards that charged extra...Tags: Bill Nelson, Consumers, Corporate Crime, Government, IDT Corporation
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Tia Dixon, 24, student, Chicago Ulisses Gutierrez, 41, sales, Chicago Maeve Doonan, 35, sales, Naperville Peter Polansky, 61, attorney, Highland Park Jessica Easterling, 54, unemployed, Chicago Justin Jose, 32, accountant, Addison Carol Lathrop, 70, retiree, Wheaton Milton Parodis, 37, engineer, N
What's your main personal worry about the economy? "I'm worried about the job market I'll be graduating into next year. I've made plans to study abroad just in case I can't find a job here." How bad is the economy, on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 as the...Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Stock Market, Federal Reserve, Retirement, Condos and Houses
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Budget cuts not affecting city's public relations efforts City message coming from a lot of messengers
Chicago Tribune reporterMayor Richard Daley headed to the lakefront last month to announce his latest environmental plans, accompanied by no fewer than six City Hall representatives. But when a stiff breeze threatened the banner used as the mayor's backdrop, two employees of an...Tags: Marketing, Global Warming, Contracts, Regional Authority, Environmental Pollution
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THE HOMECOMING
The 14th hole at the Highland Park golf course is a 443-yard par four, slightly uphill from the tee before twisting right and heading downhill toward a green that is protected by a winding creek. It is a cruel hole, and one afternoon in the late summer of...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Wrigley Field, Victory Gardens Theatre, Celebrity Mothers, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Meltdown not over: 'Financial weapons of mass destruction' have yet to go off
Sentinel ColumnistSo who is to blame for the Great Recession? Is it the Democrats, the Republicans, the greed merchants of Wall Street? Here is a condensed version of events to help you decide. And by condensed I mean I have reduced Einstein's Theory of Relativity to Dr....Tags: Security, Money and Monetary Policy, Defense Equipment, Derivative Securities, Insurance
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Treasury plans new lesson
The U.S. Treasury recently launched a campaign to teach college-age consumers about credit. The timing was uncanny: The campaign was rolled out the day after investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy. The Treasury seems to...Tags: Academic Progress, Consumers, Colleges and Universities, Bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated
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From this Vista, it looks like same old Microsoft
Just when you thought it was safe to convert to Windows Vista, Microsoft changes its mind, again. This soap opera is getting to be a little old. In early October, Microsoft admitted that it didn't discontinue XP in June after all, and would continue...Tags: Sales, Microsoft Corp., Public Holidays, Intel Corp., Christmas
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