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After 15 years in human resources at Emory Healthcare, the largest hospital system in Atlanta, director of recruitment and retention Adair Maller was frustrated. Playing phone tag with job applicants’ references could drag on for weeks. And when her staff could get references on the phone, they were reluctant to share their unvarnished opinions, wary of defamation lawsuits.
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said her administration may not succeed in winning legislative approval of a tax system overhaul aimed at paring a deficit that has grown to more than 5 percent of gross domestic product.
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AOL Inc., the Internet company that owns the Huffington Post news website, plans to cut jobs, including workers at its AIM instant-message service, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said her administration may not succeed in overhauling the country’s tax system to pare a deficit that has grown to more than 5 percent of gross domestic product.
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A California state senator plans to arrive at a press conference at the Sacramento capitol today in a Google Inc.-modified Toyota Prius that drives itself.
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It’s the photographer’s nightmare. You’ve taken the perfect photo of your daughter holding a ball. But you focused on the wrong thing. The ball is sharp, the girl blurry.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s biggest personal-computer maker, is cutting 275 engineering jobs and other positions at its WebOS business, part of a plan to turn the operating system into open-source software.
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Yahoo! Inc. asked Facebook Inc. to license technologies covered by its intellectual property and threatened to take legal action if the companies don’t reach an agreement.
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Fisker Automotive Inc., the maker of plug-in luxury sports cars, named an industry veteran its new chief executive officer and said it may turn to private investors to restart a stalled Delaware plant project.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a major case challenging affirmative-action policies at the University of Texas is widely seen as a sign that the five conservative justices in the majority are ready to do away with racial preferences in higher education.
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