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Retailers shift focus to Cyber Monday shoppers
The Associated PressThe Thanksgiving shopping weekend may not have been the disaster some had feared, but unprecedented discounts and tempered buying likely resulted in overall soft sales as a buying binge on Friday quickly fizzled. Now, online retailers are ramping up deals...Tags: Company Information, Consumers, Game Playing, E-Commerce Industry, Sales
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More data point to a modest sales gain for Thanksgiving weekend
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ The nation's stores finally got some relief this Thanksgiving weekend, according to data released late Monday, but the sales gains were modest and analysts worry the pace can't be sustained through the season and beyond as shoppers worry...Tags: Black Friday (shopping), Sales, E-Commerce Industry, Economy, Thanksgiving
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Ill. Treasurer Giannoulias wants pensions pooled
Associated Press WriterIllinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias on Monday proposed pooling the investments of five state-funded pension systems into a new, single system to save money and ward off corruption. Lawmakers need to approve Giannoulias' plan to create the new...Tags: Employees, Corporate Crime, Michael Madigan, Corruption, Tony Rezko
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For this family, good things sprang from GM
I married into a General Motors family, and when I did, I took a special kind of vow: "What is good for General Motors is good for my family." As I watch Congress consider whether to lend the struggling automaker and its cohorts a hand or let them fail,...Tags: Vehicles, Automotive Equipment, Employees, General Motors Corp., Plant Openings
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Pentagon is working to aid military families
The column "Bolster military families" (Commentary, Nov.23) rightly highlighted the challenges that many military families face in their daily lives as a result of frequent reassignments and deployments of loved ones. The good news is that they do not...Tags: Defense, Armed Forces
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Charles Richard Gamper
Charles Richard Gamper, a retired Gilman School teacher, athletics director and coach, died Tuesday of cancer at the Pickersgill retirement community in Towson. He was 89. He also headed the old Maryland Scholastic Association, the sports league that...Tags: Death and Dying, Christianity, Armed Forces, Anglican, Defense
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Steve Lonegan running for NJ governor
Associated Press WriterVowing to cut taxes and take on labor unions, conservative Republican Steve Lonegan declared his candidacy for governor of New Jersey. The former mayor of Bogota announced his intention at a news conference in Edison on Monday. Long an advocate of...Tags: National Government, Regional Authority, Local Elections, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Labor Legislation
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December 1: Tuition stability, a break for retirees, terror in Mumbai, Viloria-Fisher
Don't forget Viloria-Fisher I read with interest Joye Brown's column "5 reasons LI can find healing" [News, Nov. 23], regarding optimism about Long Island's future in the aftermath of the Marcelo Lucero killing and was struck by the omission of Suffolk...Tags: Local Elections, Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Migration, Colleges and Universities
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U.S. holiday season off to a modest start
AP Retail WriterThe Thanksgiving shopping weekend doesn't appear to have been the disaster some had feared, but tempered buying and unprecedented deep discounts likely resulted in soft sales. Now, online retailers are ramping up heavy-duty deals to turn skittish shoppers...Tags: Consumers, Game Playing, Sales, E-Commerce Industry, Thanksgiving
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E. Perricone, Grumman retiree, killed crossing street
laura.rivera@newsday.com; patrick.whittle@newsday.comOn the last day of his life, Eddie Perricone attended evening Mass at the Riverhead church where he worshipped. At 5:59 p.m., as the last dozen or so stragglers filed down the steps of St. Isidore Roman Catholic Church, the pastor said he saw Perricone,...Tags: Glenwood, Injuries, Riverhead (Riverhead, New York), Stony Brook University, NASA
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Crowds don't mean profits
Of The Associated PressDeep discounts on everything from sweaters to TVs drove shoppers out of hibernation for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the buying was tempered and sales for the traditional start of the holiday season appear at best in line with stores' low expectations....Tags: Black Friday (shopping), Game Playing, Sales, Thanksgiving, Binney and Smith
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Voice of the People
Unfair bailouts This is in response to "Unfair request" (Voice of the People, Nov. 23), by letter writer Jerry Schneider. I have to say my husband and I agree 100 percent with his comments. We, too, made sure we purchased a house we could afford in...Tags: Hazel Crest, Gays and Lesbians, Northbrook, Downers Grove, Voting
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