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Legg, Citi wrestle with the rumors
Sun StaffOne can imagine tense, closed-door negotiations between a small cadre of Legg Mason Inc. and Citigroup Inc. executives, hunched over calculators and paperwork, trying to decide how the companies would swap parts of their businesses. But that's just it...Tags: Stock Market, Banking, Illinois Tool Works Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Wachovia Corp.
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Former employees moving ahead
The Associated PressMatt Mitchell's credit card emblazoned with Enron's tilted-E logo still raises eyebrows from merchants, but he doesn't care. It's a small piece of his Enron past being used for his entrepreneurial future. He's among many former Enron workers tossed...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Companies and Corporations, Employees, Laws, Gaming
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Court opens WorldCom hearings
The Associated PressNEW YORK - MCI was close to settling today with two groups of creditors that opposed a deal to repay just a fraction of the company's $41 billion debt, prompting a surprise adjournment as hearings began on a plan to emerge from bankruptcy. A settlement...Tags: Fraud, Prosecution, Verizon Communications, Bankruptcy, AT&T Corp.
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Another big loser: campaign coffers
Los Angeles TimesAs telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. tumbles toward almost certain bankruptcy, the campaign finance industry that fuels politics on Capitol Hill is in danger of losing yet another multimillion-dollar player. In the last decade, WorldCom, its MCI...Tags: Global Crossing Limited, Bankruptcy, Democratic Party, Companies and Corporations, Political Fundraising
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A chronology of events
The Associated PressHere are key dates in the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.: 1975: Microsoft founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. July 1994: Microsoft, in a consent decree, agrees to change contracts with PC makers and eliminate some restrictions on other...Tags: Bill Gates, Software Industry, Lawyers, Judges, Companies and Corporations
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Thousands Of AT&T Workers To Stay On Job As Talks Continue
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 40,000 employees at AT&T Inc will keep working under the terms of an expired labor contract while their union continues negotiations with the telephone company, averting a potentially costly strike for now. The workers in...Tags: Verizon Communications, Unions, AT&T Corp., Health Insurance Cost, Companies and Corporations
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Obama names William Daley as chief of staff
President Barack Obama traded one Chicagoan for another as the White House chief of staff Thursday, selecting mayoral brother William Daley and a background deep in business and political experience to succeed mayoral contender Rahm Emanuel.
In revealing...Tags: Treaties, Regional Authority, Richard J. Daley, Bill Clinton, Executive Branch
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From the archives: Rahm Emanuel, Freddie Mac and the big bucks years
Change of SubjectTribune: Rahm Emanuel's profitable stint at mortgage giant and Freddie Mac scandals began during Emanuel's watch by Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac, and The House Rahm Built -- How Chicago's profane, ruthless, savvy operative, remade the Democrats in his... -
GOP on Emanuel: This is change? (Updated)
Spin CycleRahm Emanuel, left, takes the job as WH chief of staff and -- after a one day lapse -- the Republican National Committee is back on the attack: "OBAMA'S BROKEN PROMISE: After Promising Change, Obama Selects Hyper-Partisan Wedded To......Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Investment Service, Steaks, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Smith (football)
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Kmart snaps up Sears for $11 billion
In a bold move that shakes up one of Chicago's most enduring business icons, Kmart Holding Corp. pounced on Sears, Roebuck and Co. Wednesday in a merger valued at $11 billion. The new company, which will be called Sears Holdings Corp., will become the...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., BP Plc, Target Brands, Inc., Connecticut Economic Development, Chicago Real Estate
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Customers' pique may decide cable, phone firms' battle
From a technical viewpoint, it is way easier for a cable TV system to add phone service to its system than it is for a telecom carrier to add video, which gives cable operators an edge in their drive to win residential customers away from phone companies....Tags: General Electric Company, Invention and Innovation, Google Inc., Tellabs Incorporated, CFI Incorporated
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Big acquisitions put pressure on AT&T to perform
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: I am counting on my AT&T Inc. stock. Will it hold up its end of the bargain? -- R.M., via the Internet A: Never eat anything bigger than your head. The company's voracious $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. expands its holdings into the...Tags: Genentech Inc., Apple iPod, Retirement, Comcast Corp., Theft
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