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Lithium demand, seen doubling in the next eight years on sales of batteries used in electric vehicles, is spurring a U.S. company to build a factory to extract the metal from brine in California.
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Apple Inc. is appealing a bankruptcy judge’s ruling in favor of Eastman Kodak Co. that blocked the iPhone maker’s claims to two patents.
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One late afternoon in March 2007, Sanjay Wadhwa sat at his desk transfixed by the data on his computer screen. Wadhwa was then a low-level supervisor in the Wall Street office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigating a supposedly routine case of “cherry- picking.” The SEC had gotten a complaint that Rengan Rajaratnam, the founder of Sedna Capital Management LLC, a small hedge fund, was doling out a disproportionate share of his best trades to the beneficiaries of a “friends and family” account. It was Wadhwa’s job to figure out what was going on, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its April 23 issue.
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Fliers distributed at the Texas Republican convention last month depict Democrat Steve Mostyn in a menacing sketch, asking why he’s trying to “infiltrate” their party. A companion website, largely financed by rival Bob Perry, warns of Mostyn’s “invisible hand” in state politics.
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A Texas state judge is promoting his recent decisions favoring a gas driller in its dispute with a local landowner as part of his election campaign, a move some legal scholars say may violate state judicial ethics rules.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. may resolve a dispute with BP Plc over who should pay for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history through a private proceeding not accessible to the public.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. may address its dispute with BP Plc over who should pay for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history through a private proceeding intended to resolve the issue faster and more cheaply than litigation.
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For Americans, the foreclosure crisis has wiped out fortunes, bringing destitution and homelessness. For Florida attorney David J. Stern , it has brought mansions, a Bugatti sports car and a luxury yacht.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. , the Texas oil company that owns 25 percent of the damaged well pouring crude into the Gulf of Mexico, said BP Plc , the well’s operator, should pay the costs from the disaster because of the reckless and unsafe way it drilled at the site.
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. , the Texas oil company that owns 25 percent of the damaged well pouring crude into the Gulf of Mexico, said BP Plc , the project’s operator, should pay the costs from the spill because it acted recklessly and unsafely at the drilling site.
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