Over the past year, even as his problems have been amassing, the prime minister has been working behind the scenes in pursuit of a new free-trade deal. Brown has become messianic about the need to conclude the Doha round of talks, and even while on holiday he was on the phone urging fellow leaders to [...]
Wizard Home Loans is to be offered for sale with an announcement expected this week, The Australian reports.
GE Money, which owns the mortgage lender, has opted for the sale to stave off a bid by Wizard founder and current chairman, Mark Bouris, who is seeking to take back control of the company.
Mr Bouris was believed [...]
Two brothers who worked together as window cleaners plunged 47 stories yesterday morning with their scaffold from the roof of an Upper East Side apartment building. One was killed, cut in half by a wooden fence in an alley below, and the other was gravely injured but somehow survived.
The cause had not been determined, the [...]
A pair of brothers cleaning windows on an upper East Side skyscraper plunged 43 stories to the sidewalk below Friday after their suspended accesss cradle suddenly collapsed.
Edgar Moreno died on impact; his brother Alcides was still clinging to life in the hours after the terrifying 10:30 a.m. accident, officials said.
“I heard this boom, [...]
The beetles associate the alarm chemicals with a good food source and head for the hive. In Africa, where the small hive beetle is a minor honeybee pest, bees quickly isolate an invading beetle, but domesticated European honeybees are not as diligent in cleaning their hives. The beetles are also aided in their invasion by [...]
The beetles associate the alarm chemicals with a good food source and head for the hive. In Africa, where the small hive beetle is a minor honeybee pest, bees quickly isolate an invading beetle, but domesticated European honeybees are not as diligent in cleaning their hives. The beetles also are aided in their invasion by [...]
Home equity loans grew popular in the 1980s, as lenders let homeowners borrow as much as 100 percent of their equity. But in 2007, that practice was given a major overhaul.
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As part of a legal settlement reached with outdoor advertising companies, the powers that be in Fulton County have granted permits for approximately 75 new billboards to go up around the county 23 right here in Sandy Springs.
The mayor and City Council plan to fight this one tooth and nail. We shouldn’t have to [...]
Wal-Mart and Home Depot sneezed yesterday. Will the economy catch a cold?
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Home Depot said its earnings for the year would fall because of the weak housing market, a forecast that alarmed Wall Street.
The House passed legislation that aims to keep companies like Wal-Mart and Home Depot out of banking.
Under the bill, companies that don’t generate at least 85 percent of their revenue from financial activities would be ineligible for new industrial loan company charters. ILCs, which were created in the early 1900s to provide [...]