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      <title>Apple case seen as possible spur to tax reform</title>
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                      <description><![CDATA[Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law.]]></description>
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      <title>U.S. home sales tick up to highest in 3½ years</title>
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                      <description><![CDATA[Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale.]]></description>
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      <title>Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:18:19 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by a rising stock market, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.]]></description>
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      <title>Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:13:58 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[In the evolving world of online marketing, comments, both good and bad, and the reactions they trigger from managers, can make all the difference between higher revenues and empty storefronts.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-22T08:13:58-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:08:41 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs.]]></description>
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      <title>Apple's CEO faces tough Senate questions on untaxed profits</title>
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                      <description><![CDATA[The Senate dragged massively profitable Apple Inc. into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-21T10:45:22-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Average credit card debt, late payments fall in 1st quarter</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:47:22 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax returns to tackle their holiday season debt.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:06 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[The Small Business Administration says it has lined up pledges from more than 120 banks to increase lending to veterans.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-21T08:45:06-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>GM to invest $44.5 million in Lansing Cadillac factory</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:37:19 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[General Motors says it will invest $44.5 million at a Lansing, Mich., factory, creating 200 new jobs.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-21T08:37:19-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Senators agree to expansion of high-tech visas</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:35:19 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Officials say leading senators trying to resolve a key issue on immigration legislation have agreed to a compromise covering expansion of a high-tech visa program.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-21T08:35:19-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Does France have right plan to revive its economy?</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:32:59 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-21T08:32:59-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Economists predict increase in consumer spending</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:30:42 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Consumer spending is likely to pick up this year, while government spending declines at a faster rate, according to a survey of business economists.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-20T08:30:42-07:00</atom:published>
                  <atom:updated>2013-05-20T11:51:42-07:00</atom:updated>
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      <title>Earnings preview: PC slump hangs over HP's 2nd quarter</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:28:28 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard's latest quarterly results will show how badly the deteriorating personal computer market damaged the company while CEO Meg Whitman tries to expand into more profitable areas of technology.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-20T08:28:28-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>NBC hires news division chief from Britain</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:53 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[NBC has gone out of the company and out of the country to find a president for its news division.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-20T08:22:53-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Ryanair keeps growing, reports record profits</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:19:29 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Ryanair reported record profits Monday as Europe's largest budget airline relentlessly expanded its route network across the continent and into North Africa.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-20T08:19:29-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Tons of New Zealand meat stranded on Chinese docks</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:17:19 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of tons of frozen mutton, lamb and beef from New Zealand have been stranded on Chinese docks after China halted their import due to a certification dispute.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-20T08:17:19-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Chase Bank's Dimon under pressure ahead of investor vote</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:15:03 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-19T14:15:03-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>US gas prices up 11 cents over past 2 weeks</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:34 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66. Midgrade costs an average of $3.84 a gallon, and premium is $3.98.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-19T14:04:34-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:57 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-19T15:07:57-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Silicon Valley-area hub becomes factory town</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:56:46 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Fremont, Calif., a nondescript suburb of 217,000 tucked in the high-tech region between San Francisco and the Silicon Valley is where something unique is happening: manufacturing.]]></description>
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      <title>Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Uganda, which has confirmed oil deposits of about 3.5 billion barrels, wants to extract at least 1.2 billion barrels over the next three decades.]]></description>
                          <atom:published>2013-05-18T15:49:00-07:00</atom:published>
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      <title>Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:56:23 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr]]></description>
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      <title>Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:43:04 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on farm legislation that for decades has propped up traditional crops and largely ignored organics.]]></description>
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      <title>Bernanke forecasts long-term economic gains from computer tech</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:08:29 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.]]></description>
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      <title>Seattle's Tableau Software raises $254.2M in IPO</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:48:32 -0700</pubDate>
                      <description><![CDATA[Shares of Tableau Software Inc., which provides software that helps businesses convert data into visual presentations, soared Friday.]]></description>
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