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Dow sinks more than 500 as concerns about financials overshadow Fed plan to buy corporate debt
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and the...Tags: Auction Service, Government Debt, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Incorporated, Stocks, Financial Markets
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Market plunges again Tuesday
The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and the financial sector....Tags: Auction Service, Government Debt, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Incorporated, Stocks, Financial Markets
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1 killed, hundreds injured in Thailand protests
The Associated PressThai protesters demanding the government resign set fire to cars and threw bottles and metal barricades at police, who used tear gas to break through their blockade around Parliament Tuesday. At least one person was killed and more 350 people were...Tags: Government, Prosecution, Vehicles, Riots, Assault
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A good corkscrew
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDon't laugh. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to take a good bottle of wine to someone's house and find that the only corkscrew they've got is one of those $1.99 drugstore ones with solid screws that are good only for splitting corks. Come on, spend...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Mortar and pestle
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen it comes to kitchen tools, I'm a big fan of the simpler the better. And you can't get much simpler than a mortar and pestle. Basically nothing more than two rocks that you use to grind food, they haven't really been improved since the Stone Age....Tags: Building Material
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Iceland on the brink of being the 1st national bankruptcy of global economic meltdown
AP Business WriterREYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) _ This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial meltdown. Home to just 320,000 people on a territory the size of Kentucky, Iceland has formidable...Tags: Stocks, Bobby Fischer, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Boris Spassky, Natural Resources
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Israeli PM gets no promises from Moscow on Russian arms sales to Iran and Syria
Associated Press WriterMOSCOW (AP) _ Israel's prime minister said Tuesday he received assurances that Russia would not allow Israel's security to be threatened, but offered no indication he won the concrete promises he sought on Russian arms sales or sanctions on Iran....Tags: Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Government, Dmitry Medvedev, Sales
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Medvedev announces $36 billion aid for banks; fails to boost markets
Associated Press WriterMOSCOW (AP) _ Efforts by the Russian government to prop up the country's troubled banking sector with fresh cash injections did little to lift stock markets a day after they suffered their worst-ever day of trading. President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled new...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Petroleum Industry, Financial Aid, Stock Broking
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Maritime groups: Icebreakers needed on Great Lakes
A shortage of U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers could disrupt shipping on the Great Lakes this winter, according to maritime officials and shipping industry leaders. Lake Michigan covers 22,300 square miles, with more than 1,640 miles of shore in Michigan,...Tags: Government, Parliament, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Lower House, National Government
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17 killed as mortar fire hits Mogadishu market
MOGADISHU, Somalia Mortar rounds slammed into a market in Somalia's capital yesterday, killing at least 17 people, after a failed insurgent attack on the presidential palace. Al-Shabab, a radical Islamic group at the heart of the Somali insurgency,...Tags: Building Material
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VERNON: Transfer Station Accepting Metal
The town transfer station will accept metal items only, free of charge to town residents, on Oct. 22 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Oct. 25 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Oct. 26 from 8 a.m. to noon. Those with mixed loads of bulky waste and metal as well as...
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