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Earthport Plc, a processor of cross-border payments and e-commerce transactions, may be poised for a gain after the shares fell 19 percent since it agreed to serve American Express Co., according to two analysts who track the company.
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Texting by a pilot before and during a 2011 medical-helicopter flight in Missouri contributed to its crash, the first time such distractions have been implicated in a fatal commercial-aviation accident, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board found.
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Texting by a pilot before and during a 2011 medical-helicopter flight in Missouri contributed to its crash, the first time such distractions have been implicated in a fatal commercial-aviation accident, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board found.
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Dave Cook is proud of his logo. The host of the Christian Science Monitor’s weekly Monitor Breakfast considers the cheerful yellow sun, blazing prominently behind the event’s speakers, a branding opportunity. “We’ve gotten unabashed in our marketing fervor in our old age,” said Cook, the publication’s Washington bureau chief.
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Does President Barack Obama have the next, and final, debate in the bag? Politico’s Mike Allen said yesterday that the town-hall debate at Hofstra University on Oct. 16 represented “Governor Romney’s last, best chance, because the next debate is foreign policy, where President Obama is strong.”
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Serco Group Plc, the U.K. services company whose operations include prisons and London’s Docklands Light Railway, fell for a fourth day on concern it might not win bids to renew some of its largest public-sector contracts.
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U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, chief recruiter of candidates in the campaign to retake the U.S. House, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend that his party will win the chamber next week and could gain as many as 59 seats.
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Differences of opinion are the essence of politics; differences in factual analysis are usually less sharp. Yet one of the most interesting divides in public discourse now concerns not a policy dispute, but different perceptions of a “factual” question: How has the administration treated the financial sector: Wall Street, the banks and their executives?
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Is the Citizens United ruling politically irrelevant? After all, the Supreme Court decision, along with related lower-court rulings on campaign finance, is in full effect in this election. Yet President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are essentially neck-and-neck in the money race, each having raised roughly a cool billion.
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Six days ago, the Rick Santorum boom was still a glint in Mike Allen’s eye. In a Des Moines Register poll published the weekend before the Iowa caucuses, 41 percent of respondents said they weren’t sure whom they were going to support.
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