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| Business News |  | Small SUVs improve in crash tests | | NewsChannel 8- 8/20/2008 6:03:49 AM | | Four small sport utility vehicles received top scores in crash tests to be released Wednesday by the insurance industry, a sign of improvement compared with SUVs built earlier in the decade. |  |
| Inflation, drop in new home construction sink Dow | | Times Leader- 8/20/2008 5:41:13 AM | | Wall Street fell sharply for a second consecutive session Tuesday after a hefty jump in wholesale inflation and a drop in new home construction gave investors more reason to believe an economic recovery is far ... | |
| Gerstner Steps Down As Carlyle's Chairman | | The Washington Post- 8/19/2008 10:24:13 PM | | The Carlyle Group said Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. is retiring as chairman, a post the former IBM chairman held since January 2003. | |
| 47 companies bid on Gulf offshore oil leases | | The Modesto Bee- 8/19/2008 10:21:15 PM | | Dozens of energy companies bid Tuesday to explore nearly two million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas, but no offers were made for 90 percent of the acreage on the auction block. | |
| Mexican peppers posed problem long before outbreak | | China Daily- 8/19/2008 7:06:49 PM | | Federal inspectors at US border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced ... | |
| Platform may take 20 pct of oil imports | | KATC-TV Lafayette- 8/19/2008 7:04:14 PM | | An oil terminal and pipeline network expected to be built off the Texas Gulf Coast and open in about two years would be capable of handling nearly 20 percent of the nation's daily imported oil. | |
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