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Foxconn's 11th: Death by exhaustion
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-06-09 01:23Hong Kong-based SACOM (Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) has added fresh details to another death -- the 11th this year -- among the ...
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Google doodles Pac-Man for 30th anniversary
Seth Weintraub 2010-05-25 12:15The first Google Doodle you can actually play celebrates the 30th anniversary of one of America's first video game icons.Update: Google being Google h...
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New tax threatens U.S. Recovery
财富中文网 2009-07-20 05:43Proposed tax hike on international operations could delay economic reboundBy John ChenPresident Barack Obama has proposed to raise taxes on the intern...
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Survey: 31% of U.S. teens want iPhones
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010-04-14 07:22iPhone lust is growing sharply among American teenagers, according to a note to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster.Source: Piper Ja...
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U.K. shows limits of austerity
Colin Barr 2011-01-28 03:08Just in time for tonight's big speech comes a reminder of the limits of austerity.The U.K. economy posted a 0.4% fourth-quarter output decline, stunni...
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Foreigners turn to U.S. stocks
Colin Barr 2010-11-19 03:09Net foreign purchases of U.S. long term securities were $81 billion in September. That's down from $137 billion in August, as overseas buyers slowed t...
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China downgrades U.S. debt
Colin Barr 2010-11-12 12:53A publicity-minded Chinese rating agency has added its two renminbi to the cacophonous debate over the Fed's latest tilt at money-printing.The state-b...
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Foreigners flood into U.S. bonds
Colin Barr 2010-10-26 12:41Foreign funds flooded into the United States at the fastest clip since March, as U.S. trading partners sought to prop up the tumbling dollar.Net forei...
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The U.S. embarrassment at the World Expo
Jennifer Reingold 2010-08-24 01:39How would you portray your own country to the world if you could choose literally anything? If you're Germany, you'd build an amazing biodegradable st...
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Boom times for U.S. farmers
Colin Barr 2010-08-17 01:13The government said Thursday that worldwide wheat stocks are dwindling, as big wheat seller Russia and its neighbors slash exports. The agriculture de...
