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Consumers likely to shop cautiously for toys
The Associated PressWill financial-market turmoil be the Grinch this Christmas? With parents already facing high food and gas costs and slumps in the job and housing markets, the turmoil in the financial sector could further spur them to cut their spending, focus on less-...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Toys, Gifts, Christmas, The Dark Knight
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Spreading the gospel music
Special to The TimesOAKLAND -- The members of the McCoy Memorial Baptist Church choir in Los Angeles have been working very hard lately. The 40-member ensemble normally meets once a week at its East 46th Street home. But since reaching the L.A. regional semifinals of the...Tags: Music Industry, Awards and Prizes, Christianity, Defense, Verizon Wireless
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Big chains give small drugstores headaches
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES—The pharmacy business is cutthroat. Just ask John Tilley, the owner of four small drugstores in the Los Angeles area. The pharmacist has seen chains such as Sav-on, Thrifty and Drug Emporium fade away. In their place are ever-larger...Tags: Medicine, Walnut, Walgreen Co., Medical Staff, Sales
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Retailers brace for unhappy holidays
St. Petersburg TimesWhen JCPenney set up the Christmas trim-a-tree department at Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg, Fla., two weeks ago, everything was marked half-price from Day 1. Spend $50 at Limited Too and many apparel stores, and they'll hand you a $25 coupon for a...Tags: Gap Inc., Talbots Incorporated, Defense, Inventories, Circuit City Stores Incorporated
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State of the state's top companies' stock
| Chicago Tribune reporterUntil a few weeks ago, stocks in major Illinois companies were divided into clear haves and have-nots. But since the stock market turned into a wealth-crushing fire sale, almost everybody's down—due in some cases to company-specific factors and in...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, CVS Corporation, Archer Daniels Midland Incorporated, Boeing Co., United Air Lines
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Yorkville spurt now stunted
Chicago Tribune reporterFour-foot weeds obscure "For sale" signs in one subdivision. In another, Canada geese waddle in the mud near four empty model homes. In yet a third, an unfinished street with only two homes on it peters out into dirt and weeds. Welcome to Yorkville....Tags: Bank of America Corp., Academic Progress, LaSalle Bank, Yorkville, Kohl's Corporation
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Police search for would-be robbers
A woman was attacked by two men who put her in a headlock and rifled through her pockets as she left a Wal-Mart store near Arundel Mills mall Wednesday night, Anne Arundel County police said. At about 9:15 p.m., a woman was leaving the store in the... -
Chief Hideout
Special to The Baltimore SunGeorge Wireman called this town the Gateway to the Mountains when he wrote a local history of it in 1969, and it seems like ever since then, that's what everyone here has called it. "If you stand anywhere on Main Street and look west," Wireman, now 87,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Trinity United Church of Christ, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, History, Peace Negotiations
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AKAs welcome Sister Barbie
Special to The Baltimore SunShe is, in a word, gorgeous. A real headturner. From head to toe, she is perfect. Her hair, artfully coiffed in shining curls, flows past her shoulders. Her lips are plump and carefully hued with a warm pink that complements the toasted copper color of...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Toys, Phylicia Rashad, National or Ethnic Minorities
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The Kings Of The Compact Fluorescents
Compact fluorescent bulbs, say the folks at Consumer Reports, can save energy and money, and new versions provide nice, bright white light. In the October issue of the magazine, the editors debunk common myths about the bulbs and give the results of...Tags: Energy Saving, Home Depot Incorporated
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In uncertain times, some financial truths still hold true
Special to The Morning CallWhen everything seems upside down, when century-old banks fall like bowling pins, when even ''safe'' investments seem risky, there are still eternal truths investors can embrace. This, too, shall pass.Financial panics always end. The trick is living long...Tags: Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Tribune Co., Mutual Funds, Personal Finance
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Niagara Falls and back in one day
Chicago Tribune reporterI'm out the door at 4:32 a.m. on a Sunday and heading for the highway, praying that AM radio can keep me awake. From Chicago I'm going 90 miles west, to Rockford, where I will catch a 7 a.m. flight to Niagara Falls, a place I've never been. Along with...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Gardens and Parks, Transportation, Tourism and Leisure, Landforms
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