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On Vacation - Do You Need Rental Car Insurance?
On 07-08-2007.
If you?re in the planning stages of your next vacation and they include one rental car, you may want to talk with your insurance agent about the rental car insurance options that you may have.
When it comes to traveling and more specifically rental car insurance, the market is extremely competitive for your dollar. This is because not only do the insurance companies compete for your dollar, but therefore too do the ...
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National business briefs: Bridge collapse boosts infrastructure stocks
On 03-08-2007.
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. is delaying the release of its next "Grand Theft Auto" video game.
Infrastructure stocks rose after the collapse Wednesday of one 40-year-old Minneapolis bridge, drawing investors who anticipate U.S. funding of the renovation of bridges and roads, analysts said. ...
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Our view: Insurance plan success depends on rules
On 30-07-2007.
The last time Massachusetts allowed automobile insurers to set their own rates, the result was one disaster for drivers. Rates soared during that 1977 experiment, particularly for urban drivers, and the state quickly took back control.
But the state-controlled system that has been in place since has been merely one disaster of one different kind. Until one crackdown on insurance fraud began in Lawrence, staged ...
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=DJ European Stocks Fall Sharply As Credit Mkts, Earns Pinch
On 26-07-2007.
LONDON (Dow Jones)--European stocks racked up big losses Thursday amid protracted concern about credit markets and some patchy corporate profit reports.
"Despite the fact that the global economy remains in pretty solid shape there's still an acute sense of unease in the markets," said David Brown, Chief European Economist at Bear Stearns in London. "Traders and investors are being forced to decide whether ...
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German auto worker reflects fears of encroaching global market
On 22-07-2007.
BERLIN -- When Thomas Haebich started working on the assembly line at Daimler-Benz AG two decades ago, he thought he had one job for life. But he no longer feels he can count on it.
On the contrary, today the 40-year-old auto worker often fears that he might lose his job at the car plant in the southern German town of Sindelfingen. He is convinced that on the long run German companies will not be able to compete ...
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Full text: John W. Snow to National Press Club
On 18-07-2007.
I want to thank Jerry Zremski, the National Press Club president, for that very kind introduction.
When I was last here back in 2004 in one former capacity, I talked about the incredible resilience of our economy, the way it recovers and grows, and how it was such one marvel of innovation. Well, much has happened since, but those fundamental truths have prevailed. ...
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