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Business Day
The Workers Defense Project, a Union in Spirit
The group, which focuses on the construction industry in Texas, has emerged as one of the nation’s most creative and responsive organizations for immigrant workers.
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Real Estate
Real Estate Q & A
This week’s topics include withholding maintenance over noisy neighbors; the confidentiality of co-op board meetings; and the eviction process.
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U.S.
Obama Assures Disabled Veterans They Will Get Aid
The president addressed the annual convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Florida, then left for an eight-day vacation.
"Mr. Obama took credit for the exemption, saying, “I made it clear that
your veterans’ benefits are secure from this year’s sequester.”
But, in an appeal to veterans to apply pressure on lawmakers ahead of
the budget battles to come this fall, he added, “The best way to protect
the V.A. care you have earned is to get rid of the sequester
altogether."
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Opinion
Cost of Medical Devices, in the U.S. and Abroad
Three responses to an article about medical tourism.
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Business Day
The Chatter for August 11, 2013
Notable quotes from business articles that appeared in The New York Times last week.
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Autos
Wheelies: The FARC Tungsten Edition
Automakers may be using tungsten mined by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and the American version of “Top Gear” is returning to the History channel.
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Theater
A Musical’s Unorthodox Genesis
The new Broadway musical “Soul Doctor” stars Eric Anderson, who isn’t Jewish, as the real-life singing rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.
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Booming
Lessons Learned When It’s All Over
A couple discuss how their marriage dissolved after almost 20 years and two children, and the lessons learned.
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N.Y. / Region
At Newtown Starbucks, a Gun Event Is Shut Out
A Newtown, Conn., Starbucks closed early, disappointing some gun owners who had planned to show up wearing holstered pistols to make a statement in favor of gun rights.
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U.S.
Amid Pipeline Debate, Two Costly Cleanups Forever Change Towns
As the administration considers approval of the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline, cleanup efforts in two communities portend the potential hazards of transporting heavy Canadian crude.
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U.S.
Rain Sets Off Deadly Mudslide and Floods in Colorado
In Manitou Springs, a man’s body was found in flood debris and a mudslide closed Route 24 in the rain on Friday.
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Opinion
A Clean-Car Boom
Having more hybrid and electric vehicles on the road will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Business Day
Suppliers of Milk Powder to China Are Issued Fines
Chinese parents have gone to great lengths to buy foreign-made infant milk powder.
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Business Day
UBS Settles Suit in Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy
UBS has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who accused the Swiss bank of misleading them about the financial condition of Lehman Brothers in connection with the sale of structured notes.
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Business Day
Microsatellites: What Big Eyes They Have
By expanding Earth imaging, low-cost satellites could help many businesses keep track of their operations. But frequent updating of those images may also raise privacy questions.
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Fashion & Style
Sex in a Teenager’s Room?
It’s unlikely that I will ever have to call another parent to see whether it’s O.K. if her 16-year-old child sleeps in my 16-year-old child’s bedroom.
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Business Day
More on Sequestration's Effects on the Private Sector
The industries most reliant on the military have lagged behind the rest of the private sector in employment trends, and certain states may be particularly vulnerable.
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Business Day
When a Co-Pay Gets in the Way of Health
To discourage waste in health care, insurance companies charge co-payments. But sometimes the co-pay discourages patients from receiving needed treatment.The Euro: A Pre-Mortem
Alan Taylor and Kevin O’Rourke have a very good analytical survey of the euro’s problems
(pdf), putting it in historical perspective. I’d summarize their piece
as saying that the euro suffers from all the problems euroskeptics
warned about, plus one they didn’t — the dangers of lacking banking
union. There’s a particularly good discussion of the problems of
“internal devaluation”, with the demonstration that only in Greece,
which is undergoing a full-blown depression, has there been any
significant fall in wages:
Downward nominal rigidity is a real, important thing."
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