Senate health reform bill shows how trial lawyers’ lobbying helped end drive for damage award caps

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Trial Lawyers Sidestep Malpractice Curbs

We have not come to grips with “the fundamental fallacy of the too-big-to-fail doctrine,” writes the long-time stock market watcher

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Malkiel: Market Risk-Taking Must Be Restrained

After a year in which his global restaurant empire almost went bankrupt, the bad boy of British cuisine is serving cheaper cuts of meat and focusing on television

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Gordon Ramsay’s Recipe for Redemption

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Ten Sports Stories to Watch in 2010

NBC, last among U.S. television networks in prime-time viewers, plans to increase production of new shows to the most since 2003 to reverse seven straight seasons of declining ratings.

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NBC Adds Pilots to Reverse 7 Straight Years of Falling Ratings

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc said on Thursday it has agreed to a 30-day cooling-off period in its talks over fees with News Corp.

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Time Warner agrees to cooling-off period

AT&T and other big companies have slashed interest costs as borrowing costs have fallen to almost a five-year low

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Corporate Bonds: 2010′s Big Winners

JPMorgan Chase & Co. retained its place this year as the top underwriter of U.S. corporate bonds, leading banks managing a record $1.24 trillion of fixed-income offerings as borrowers take advantage of the lowest rates in almost five years.

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JPMorgan Leads U.S. Corporate Bond Underwriting for Second Year

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was…

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Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil finished the year above $79 a barrel on Thursday, climbing a whopping 78 percent in 2009 and notching the biggest annual gain in a decade.

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Oil ends 2009 78 percent above year-ago level

The U.S. gave Nigeria four full-body scanners for its international airports in 2008 to detect explosives and drugs, but none were used on the man suspected trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight, Nigerian officials say. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tracked…

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US scanners went unused at Nigeria airport

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Washington Mutual Inc said it could receive an additional $2.6 billion in tax refunds due to a recently enacted law, sending shares of the bankrupt bank holding company soaring on Thursday.

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WaMu says tax refund may double, shares soar

The automaker is giving Holland-based Spyker Cars more time to come up with financing to buy the Swedish brand

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GM Extends Saab Deadline

A record 20 million-plus people collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009, a year that ended with the jobless rate at 10 percent. As the pace of layoffs slows, the number of new applicants visiting unemployment offices has been on the decline in…

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20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in ’09

A “mock trial” behind closed doors is planned in a lawsuit filed by the DuPont Co. against privately held Invista, which bought much of DuPont’s textiles and interiors business several years ago. DuPont claims Invista broke an agreement to provide DuPont with…

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Judges orders ‘mock trial’ in DuPont lawsuit