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ING U.S. Inc., a unit of the largest Dutch financial-services company, is headed for an initial public offering led by managers who helped American International Group Inc. repay its rescue by divesting assets.
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When psychiatrist Gertrudis Agcaoili retired last year from a state mental hospital in Napa, California, she took with her a $608,821 check for unused leave banked in a career that spanned three decades.
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Three LG Electronics Inc. patents for front-end-loading washing machines were infringed by Daewoo Electronics Corp., a U.S. jury found.
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Harvard University, Yale University and Stanford University, with combined endowments about equal to the gross domestic product of Lithuania, are among 15 of the wealthiest colleges and universities that borrowed $7.2 billion because their highbrow investing left them suddenly strapped for cash.
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Twenty-five years ago, when Zong Qinghou was 42, he made his living selling soft drinks and popsicles to schoolchildren. He says he earned about $8 a month -- less than a third of China’s average wage at the time -- and was so broke that he once slept in a tunnel under the streets of Beijing rather than spend on a hotel.
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In 2001, power company executive Jeffrey Sprecher wandered the exhibits of the futures-trading industry’s annual convention in Boca Raton, Florida with an idea nobody wanted to hear.
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The University of Arizona captured its first baseball national title since 1986 with a two-game sweep of two-time defending champion South Carolina in the College World Series finals.
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Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich , on the first day of witnesses at his Chicago corruption trial, was confronted with the testimony of his former chief of staff, who told of a plot to profit from their positions.
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David Sandwith has been trying to unload his seven-bedroom house on Mercer Island, Washington, since 2009, listing it first for $32 million, then cutting the price to $28.8 million last year. After not receiving any acceptable offers, he’s putting it up for auction.
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It is hard for education reformers to be too optimistic about the post-strike prospects for Chicago schools. The resulting contract significantly boosts teacher pay in exchange for some modest changes such as a lengthened school day and improved teacher testing.
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