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          <title>Charleston Metro Chamber Volunteers Exceed Campaign Goal</title>
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The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce wrapped up their tenth annual Total Resource Campaign (TRC) as Dick Elliott, 2009 TRC Campaign chairman reported that Chamber volunteers raised $2,280,033 which was $4,261 over the goal, and 143 new members.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local business offering companion care and caregiver service</title>
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At Home Caregivers, a non-medical in home personal and companion care service has opened in Mount Pleasant. At Home will primarily serve those individuals in the Tri-county area who want to remain in their own home but need assistance with daily living activities such as cooking, cleaning, shopping, and companionship.           ]]></description>
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In his writing, Perhaps I Am, Edward W. Bok shares a story of kindness involving Herbert Hoover and Polish premier Paderewski. Here is an excerpt from the inspiring story Bok shares.           ]]></description>
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I came across a humorous story recently that read, &#8220;If the circus comes to town and you paint a sign saying &#8216;Circus coming to the Fairgrounds Saturday,&#8217; that&#8217;s advertising.           ]]></description>
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Living along coastal South Carolina; I&#8217;ve enjoyed several opportunities to go crabbing at the beach. A good place to capture crab is along the jetties since they like to hide among the rocks. The rewards of crabbing are delicious as crab can be served up many ways, crab cakes being my favorite.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Leadership Perspective &#8211; Lessons from Arthur Ashe</title>
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Spring time across the country means different things depending on what part of the country you live. Here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, one of the many festive occasions that mark the arrival of spring is the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament on picturesque Daniel Island.            ]]></description>
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Once thought to be somewhat recession-proof, tech jobs have been getting slashed as companies look to trim budgets.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The One Thing &#8211; Discovering Your Passion as a Leader</title>
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It&#8217;s the classic scene from the movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. Palance and Crystal are riding slowly across the range on horseback, discussing life and love.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s considered by many as one of the greatest movies of all times &#8211; Casablanca. World War II has engulfed Europe, reaching all the way to Rick Blaine&#8217;s Caf&#233; American in French-held Morocco. The Nazis have overrun France and are heading into the unoccupied regions in Africa &#8211; and all kinds of people are trying to escape them by way of Casablanca.           ]]></description>
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March Madness is here and basketball fans across the country have faithfully filled out their brackets, and are watching the madness. Through the first weekend, I am still in fairly good shape with my picks, including North Carolina who I&#8217;ve picked to win it all.           ]]></description>
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One thing I&#8217;ve learned over the years is that there are no &#8220;over-night&#8221; successes. The path to success is rewarding, but at times long and lonely. Consider Walt Disney, he was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. He also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. How about Babe Ruth?           ]]></description>
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          <title>Beating a Dead Horse &#8211; Innovative Leadership to the Rescue</title>
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Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are  riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in  organizations we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the  following           ]]></description>
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The story is told a successful beauty product company that asked the people in a large city to send pictures with brief letters about the most beautiful women they knew. Within a few weeks thousands of letters were delivered to the company.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Leadership Priorities: What does it take to get your attention?</title>
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One of the challenges of good leadership is maintaining priorities. Many things compete for your time, energy, money, and learning to say no to many good things is hard to do.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Used car sales booming</title>
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While new vehicle sales are stalled, used vehicle sales are in high gear.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:46:36 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>How to cook&#45;up successful biz in tough economy</title>
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Pointers on starting your own home business.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Workplace Attitudes: A Lesson from a Chinese Tattoo Artist</title>
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Dr. Norman Vincent Peale relates this story from his book, Power of the Plus Factor:&#8221;Once walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos available.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Why Confidence Matters: An Insight from Churchill</title>
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Emerson once said, &#8220;If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.&#8221; We are living in times when panic is running high and confidence is running low. It&#8217;s a time when people leave work on Friday and wonder if they will have a job on Monday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>What Are You Prepared to See in 2009?</title>
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I know many people are pessimistic about the economic forecast in 2009. A recession looms large, people are losing their jobs, and times are difficult for many.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Leadership Principles from Geese</title>
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At this time of the year it&#8217;s not uncommon to see the geese flying across the evening sky. One of the pleasures of where I work is a reflection pond where many of them have found a home.           ]]></description>
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I don&#8217;t have to tell you about the toll the recession is having on people around the country. Companies are closing, layoffs abound, and politicians in Washington continue to work on viable solutions. Times are tough.           ]]></description>
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          <title>NC university teaches students how to start a small business</title>
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A North Carolina university plans programs this fall to teach students how to start the small businesses. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro program is aimed at small business because professors think those will create more jobs over the next 30 years.
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          <title>Charleston Metro Chamber Kicks&#45;Off 2009 Total Resource Campaign</title>
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The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce has kicked-off its tenth annual Total Resource Campaign (TRC), a 12-week resource development effort intended to raise money in support of Chamber programs and initiatives.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:51:37 EDT</pubDate>
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Wall Street is now worrying about the companies usually seen as safe havens.           ]]></description>
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Investors worrying about a deepening recession have been cherry-picking stocks, sending tech shares higher and financials and blue chips lower.           ]]></description>
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The Federal Reserve says the economy has weakened further and signaled it will keep a key interest rate near zero for quite &#8220;some time&#8221; to cushion the fallout.
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Some of Wall Street&#8217;s earnings anxiety is easing - at least for the time being.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street has managed an advance the hard way - zigzagging in response to a mix of earnings and economic news before closing moderately higher.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tech, financial stocks lead Wall Street higher</title>
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IBM has given Wall Street a reprieve from bad news and investors have responded by giving stocks a big rebound from their Inauguration Day plunge.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rescue efforts show difficulty of fixing bank woes</title>
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The day before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the escalating problems facing major banks around the world couldn&#8217;t be clearer.           ]]></description>
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Bank of America is announcing its fourth-quarter results ahead of the previously scheduled date.           ]]></description>
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Stock prices have finished the day lower yet again, with the Dow losing about 250 points on the day.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Citigroup, Morgan Stanley merge brokerages</title>
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Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are combining their brokerages in a deal that shows how much Citigroup wants to slim down and build up cash.           ]]></description>
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Stock prices bounced off their lows of the session to close mixed.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street has extended last week&#8217;s slide on worries that the quarterly results companies begin releasing this week will signal the economy is in worse shape than feared.           ]]></description>
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Automakers are faced with the difficult challenge of revving up business during tough economic times           ]]></description>
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A person familiar with the talks says negotiations are underway between Citigroup and Morgan Stanley about a deal one economist says could be the unraveling of the Citi monolith.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street has dismissed more bad economic news and is finishing with a moderate advance that leaves stocks at their highest levels in two months.           ]]></description>
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Apple founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs, looking to quell rumors about his health, said his doctors have discovered a hormonal imbalance that has been causing his weight loss.           ]]></description>
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U.S. auto sales plummeted last month.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street started the new year with a big rally, sending the Dow Jones industrials up more than 250 points and to their first close above 9,000 in two months.           ]]></description>
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Wall Street is largely brushing off a weaker-than-expected report on the manufacturing sector.
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Stocks gained modest ground in light, post-Christmas trading.           ]]></description>
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He didn&#8217;t just lose his clients&#8217; money with Bernard Madoff.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:57:27 EDT</pubDate>
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The founder of a hedge fund that invested with Bernard Madoff has been found dead at his Manhattan office.           ]]></description>
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The interest rate on two-year Treasury notes has fallen to the lowest level on record.           ]]></description>
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Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and other benefits last year.           ]]></description>
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Citizens Financial Group says it&#8217;s laying off 900 employees.           ]]></description>
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Stocks closed mixed, but little changed today as investors considered the ramification of the government&#8217;s plan to help the ailing auto industry.           ]]></description>
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Stock prices closed sharply higher on Wall Street.           ]]></description>
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Stock prices closed sharply higher on Wall Street.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:53:32 EDT</pubDate>
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Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission failed many times over a decade to fully investigate credible allegations of wrongdoing by money manager Bernard Madoff, the head of the SEC says, calling it a serious agency breakdown.           ]]></description>
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The Federal Reserve has cut its target for a key interest rate to the lowest level on record and pledged to use &#8220;all available tools&#8221; to combat a severe financial crisis and prolonged recession.           ]]></description>
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Bank of America Corp. says it expects to eliminate 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years.           ]]></description>
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Stocks have shaken off the losses that mounted following the worst monthly employment report in 34 years.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:04:34 EDT</pubDate>
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Some analysts are now saying the U.S. economy is in a freefall.&nbsp; New figures from the Labor Department on Friday show job losses last month were much worse than forecast.
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An industry group says a record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage were either at least a month behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September.            ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s not much besides bad news in the latest auto sales figures released today, as consumer concern about the slumping economy continues.           ]]></description>
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Chrysler says its November U.S. sales plunged 47 percent, blaming a slumping industrywide demand and a planned drop in fleet sales.           ]]></description>
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The government says new home sales in October fell 5.3 percent to the lowest level in 18 years.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The economy shrank more than expected in the third quarter.            ]]></description>
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Wall Street has barreled higher for the secondstraight session, this time in a relief rally over the government&#8217;s plan to bail out Citigroup Inc.           ]]></description>
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We&#8217;ll get an update on the housing market slump today, as the National Association of Realtors reports on existing home sales.           ]]></description>
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Some of those losses have started to recede though, now that the U.S. government has announced a plan to rescue the troubled banking giant.           ]]></description>
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Communities and auto support industries beyond Detroit, bracing for the worst if the big three automakers can&#8217;t survive.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Asian stock markets are headed down again amid fears of a protracted recession that sent Wall Street plunging to it lowest point in five years.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Federal Reserve has sharply lowered its projection for economic activity this year and next, and signaled additional interest rate reductions may be needed.           ]]></description>
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The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that construction of new homes and apartments dropped more than expected to an annual rate of 791,000 units from an upwardly revised September rate of 828,000 units.           ]]></description>
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The Labor Department reports that consumer prices fell by 1 percent last month, the biggest one-month decline on records that go back to February 1947.
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It was the first time Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced lawmakers in public since he announced he would not be using the bailout money to buy bad debt as he&#8217;d promised.           ]]></description>
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They&#8217;re expected to explain why the administration has ditched its original strategy behind the rescue.
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They sank after Wall Street retreated and global financial firms announced another round of massive layoffs, adding to gloom about the world economy.           ]]></description>
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Yahoo will replace founder Jerry Yang as CEO as soon as a replacement is found.           ]]></description>
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The government says 3,800 banks will have until early December to apply for a share of the $700 billion financial system rescue program.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s been a volatile start to the week in the financial markets.           ]]></description>
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The economists expect the jobless rate to rise to 7.5 percent by the end of next year.
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Suzuki Motor Corp. says General Motors Corp. will sell its stake in the Japanese automaker for 22.37 billion yen, or $230 million, to raise cash.
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Investors are looking at beaten-down shares while global leaders gather in Washington to discuss ways to tackle the world financial crisis.           ]]></description>
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Andrew Cuomo has been looking into the bonuses paid to Bank of America executives in advance of the industry&#8217;s meltdown.            ]]></description>
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The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday that gross domestic product contracted by 0.5 percent in the July-September period compared with the previous quarter.           ]]></description>
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Asian stock markets tumbled Thursday amid more signs of a sharp downturn in the U.S. economy.           ]]></description>
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The newest Blackberry has arrived.&nbsp; The $299 Bold gives you a better screen than previous Blackberries, a smoother internet experience, and a very easy-to-use keyboard.
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Asian stock markets faltered today with Japan&#8217;s benchmark losing 1.3 percent, as evidence mounted that a worsening global economy has taken a toll on companies.           ]]></description>
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The hearing comes as the government&#8217;s own plan is coming under fire.           ]]></description>
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President-elect Obama is keeping his distance from world leaders right now, and will not attend this week&#8217;s economic summit at the White House.           ]]></description>
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson may answer some of his critics when he gives an update this morning on the $700 billion financial bailout program.           ]]></description>
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A new tax policy from the Treasury Department will let companies that take over banks hit by the mortgage crisis to write off more of the losses.           ]]></description>
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The decision opens the door to American Express being able to accept deposits and permanently access low-cost financing from theFed           ]]></description>
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Stock markets in Asia declined and European markets opened lower today as the luster wore off China&#8217;s nearly $600 billion bailout of its own economy.           ]]></description>
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China&#8217;s $586 billion stimulus plan is taking stocks higher today on international markets.           ]]></description>
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China&#8217;s announcement of a major economic stimulus may ripple all the way to Wall Street.           ]]></description>
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General Motors says it suffered a third quarter loss of $2.5 billion.           ]]></description>
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Most markets in Asia rebounded from early lows despite a grim profit forecast from Toyota and sluggish U.S. economic data.           ]]></description>
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Workers at General Motors and Ford Motor Company factories across the country are on pins and needles as they await the latest batch of bad news for their struggling industry.           ]]></description>
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A vicious cycle of vanishing jobs and stresses on American consumers are spelling deeper trouble for the already sinking U.S. economy.           ]]></description>
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Yahoo is looking for something to cheer about amid dashed hopes that Google could help the Internet pioneer dig out of a big slump.           ]]></description>
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Asian stock markets tumbled with the major indexes down while European stocks got off to a weak start, with benchmarks in Germany, Britain and France losing ground.
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SCE&amp;G and the state-owned utility, Santee Cooper, want to build two nuclear reactors in Fairfield County north of Columbia, where they operate one reactor now.           ]]></description>
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