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The U.S. Transportation Department shut down a Washington-based bus company specializing in tours and parties, intensifying federal investigations of safety breaches by bus companies.
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Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney participates in a town-hall meeting at Ariel Corp. in Mount Vernon, Ohio. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie introduces Romney. (Source: Bloomberg)
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FreshDirect’s orange-and-green delivery trucks have ruled Manhattan’s double-parked streets for a decade, catering to New Yorkers too harried to schlep to the grocery store. Lately, its drivers have found themselves jockeying for space at the curb with vans from rival Peapod.
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Washington Mutual Inc. , the official equity holders’ committee and some creditors are trying to outsmart one another with legal strategies to push through or kill the global settlement that underpins WaMu’s reorganization plan.
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Former New York Knicks guard Ray Williams is being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for an undisclosed illness, the New York Daily News reported.
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The day after a combative debate, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney rekindled their arguments half a nation apart while making direct appeals for the votes of women.
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As the sun sets over Jerusalem’s Old City and a performer plays a mystical solo on a curved ram’s horn, Glenn Beck appears before an audience near the southern wall of the Temple Mount, a sacred site for both Jews and Muslims that they have battled over for centuries.
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A first edition of Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” could sell for as much as $120,000 at auction next month.
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He really did have trouble with his teeth, but everything else most of us know about George Washington will need some readjustment now that Ron Chernow has produced his splendidly detailed biography of the first president of the United States.
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George Washington’s copy of a book containing the Constitution with his annotations and legislative actions taken by the new U.S. Congress sold for $9.8 million at Christie’s today.
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