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Former Chinese Railway Minister Liu Zhijun was charged with corruption and abuse of power as the Communist Party roots out graft that blossomed during the debt- fueled roll out of the world’s biggest high-speed rail network.
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A judge cleared Georgia State University of most copyright violation claims brought by academic publishers including Oxford University Press over using unlicensed book excerpts in course materials.
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Synovus Financial Corp. settled a shareholder lawsuit over more than $200 million in bad loans to Georgia luxury resort Sea Island Co. that the investors say were approved with a “golf course handshake” between executives of the two companies.
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Pernod Ricard SA, which sells Havana Club rum in every country except the U.S., was dealt a blow in efforts to sell the liquor in the American market after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to intervene in a clash over rights to the name.
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The cost of one of the country’s most expensive individual tax breaks is shrinking as the number of Americans who own homes declines and mortgage rates hover near historic lows.
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Chick-fil-A Inc., the Atlanta-based fast-food chain feuding with gay-rights advocates over some executives' stance on marriage, has served up two hidden billionaires.
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As the Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali discovered in January, there is no surer route to political oblivion than to deny people access to affordable food.
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One morning this week, two Georgia lawmakers did a remarkable thing. These Republican men from affluent, conservative districts stood before the state House of Representatives to speak up for teenage prostitutes.
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A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. by Wall Street banks in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said the U.S. government, and some state and local governments, must reduce the growth in budget deficits to a more sustainable level.
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