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2008 AP FILE PHOTOIn this photo, the company logo is seen on the doors of a building at Merck & Co. headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N.J. Merck and one of its drug development partners parted ways today. In a filing…

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Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods along Fargo’s Red River on Monday as residents began preparing to keep the looming flood waters away from their homes. The cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and…

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A coalition representing governors of 29 states is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy, such as requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2012. The bipartisan Governors’ Wind…

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A coalition representing governors of 29 states is urging the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy, such as requiring utilities to produce at least 10 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2012. The bipartisan Governors’ Wind…

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Militants in Nigeria’s oil-producing region detonated two car bombs Monday near a government building where officials were discussing an amnesty deal, showing their resolve to resume attacks after an agreement to bring peace and economic benefits to the area…

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Militants in Nigeria’s oil-producing region detonated two car bombs Monday near a government building where officials were discussing an amnesty deal, showing their resolve to resume attacks after an agreement to bring peace and economic benefits to the area…

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Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerFile photo of Continental Airlines planes at Newark Airport as a snow storm hit on February 9, 2010 Continental Airlines will have to end its light-hearted television commercials showing hungry passengers on other airlines greedily staring at food-shaped…

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Police are escorting truck convoys carrying sandbags into the lowest areas of Fargo, N.D. because the Red River is rising rapidly. The river in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota is expected to crest on Saturday about 20 feet above flood stage and 3…

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A Grand Island manufacturer of biodegradable clothes hangers, golf tees, guitar picks and other items has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Wheatware products of Midwest Manufacturing Co. Inc. had been featured as one of the “Modern Marvels” on…

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Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-LedgerFile photo of a Merck stockholders’ meeting held at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, April 28, 2009. Merck & Co. and Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s experimental anti-clotting drug betrixaban caused less bleeding than an older treatment in people…

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Alex Wong/Getty Images Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren speaks during a hearing before the Congressional Oversight Panel that was created to oversee the expenditure of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) March 4, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Charles…

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Boo Zamek was a mother of two young children when she started a business from her home two years ago publishing a community e-newsletter. She wanted the same things many of us want when we turn to self-employment — prosperity…

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AIG logo American International Group Inc. is planning on holding back $21 million in bonus payments to former employees according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The move comes today as AIG prepares to pay out $46 million…

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says new sanctions are needed against Iran to pressure the country into settling the dispute over its nuclear program. Speaking to reporters Monday after talks with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Merkel said Iran had…

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Gerald Ostrov, Bausch & Lomb’s current chairman and CEO, is retiring. He will continue to serve as a consultant. The position of chief executive officer will be filled by Brent Saunders, who headed Schering-Plough’s consumer healthcare unit. Fred Hassan, who ran Schering-Plough as chief executive, will become chairman of Baush & Lomb.

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Two former Schering-Plough executives land at Bausch & Lomb