If it takes government stimulus money to boost the nation’s GDP, which, we’ve been told, marks the end of the Great Recession, then we may have truly entered a new epoch. One in which declining personal income, falling consumer spending (according…

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Company: Swensen’s Ice Cream, San Francisco Title:Owner of the original, independently operated Hyde Street location Q: What is the secret for great ice cream?…

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3 Questions: Dick Campana, Swensen’s Ice Cream

Due to arrive today SHIPFROMPORTLong Beach BridgeLong BeachOAKCSL AcadianSechelt,…

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Ship traffic for November 01, 2009

Coming to a store near you: Bob Marley video games, shoes … snowboards? Heirs of the Jamaican reggae legend are plunging into the global trademark wars, seeking to enforce their exclusive rights to an image that has grown steadily in scope and…

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Heirs push for licensing Bob Marley’s name

The hot tub business is in the tank. About 60 spa manufacturers have closed over the last six years and experts say sales have dropped by as much as two-thirds over the same period. But at a time when its competitors are pulling back and…

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Pomona company will make Coleman hot tubs

(10-30) 23:55 PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Gas & Electric and Cox Communications have agreed to pay $17 million to settle claims by state investigators that poor maintenance led to three huge Southern California wildfires in 2007. The…

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Companies to pay $17M in San Diego wildfires case

(10-30) 23:47 PDT TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran legislators now have the final say over a U.S.-brokered agreement that could return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power, and diplomats urged them not to delay. All sides in the 4-…

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Pact to restore ousted Honduran leader in Congress

(10-30) 22:19 PDT San Diego, CA (AP) — San Diego Gas & Electric and Cox Communications have agreed to pay $17 million to settle claims by state investigators that poor maintenance led to three huge wildfires in 2007. The settlement,…

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Companies settle San Diego wildfire case

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s exports face a “hard and tortuous” path to recovery as uncertainties dog the global economy’s gradual return to health, with this year’s trade surplus set to shrink from last year’s record, the Commerce Ministry said.

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China sees rocky export rebound, shrinking surplus

(10-30) 22:09 PDT New York (AP) — Regulators on Friday shut California National Bank of Los Angeles and eight smaller related banks as the weak economy continues to produce a stream of loan defaults. The banks closed by the Federal Deposit…

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Federal regulators close 9 banks, mostly in West

(10-30) 22:05 PDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is aware of an upcoming visit by two American officials and supports the new U.S. policy of engaging with Myanmar’s military rulers, her lawyer said Saturday. <…

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi supports US policy of engagement

(10-30) 21:21 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s top security official on Friday proposed disbanding Mexico’s 2,022 municipal police forces and combining them with state law enforcement agencies to better combat corruption and crime….

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. authorities seized nine failed banks on Friday, the most in a single day since the financial crisis began and the latest stark sign that substantial parts of the nation’s banking industry are being crippled by bad loans.

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Nine U.S. banks seized in largest one-day haul

(10-30) 21:01 PDT New York (AP) — Have you checked the interest rates on your credit cards lately? Odds are they’re going way up. That’s because credit-card companies are rushing to raise rates and tack on extra fees ahead of a law slated to…

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ALL BUSINESS: Credit-card rates up before new law

(10-30) 20:07 PDT DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s hopes for a cost-cutting labor agreement grew dimmer, with a key local union in Kentucky rejecting changes to workers’ contracts. Eighty-four percent of workers at United Auto Workers Local…

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Ford hopes dim as workers veto changes