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		<title><![CDATA[Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces Common Stock Offering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY -- Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) today announced that it intends to commence a public offering of 20 million shares of its common stock. Chesapeake intends to use the net proceeds from the offering initially to repay outstanding indebtedness under its revolving bank credit facility, which may be reborrowed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Actel Adds One Million Shares to Its Stock Repurchase Program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced the approval by its Board of Directors of authority to repurchase up to 1,000,000 more shares of Common Stock under the Company's stock repurchase program.  This action will permit the Company to continue repurchasing shares of its Common Stock from time to time...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cypress's Board of Directors Adds $300 Million to Stock Buyback Program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the company to add an additional $300 million to its authorized stock repurchase program, doubling the size of the program announced by Cypress in January 2007 to $600 million. The authorization allows...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FNB Bancorp Declares Stock Dividend]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200712/ai_n21136127]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FNB Bancorp (OTCBB: FNBG), the holding company for First National Bank of Northern California, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a stock dividend of approximately 143,227 shares, payable at the rate of one share of Common Stock for every twenty (20) shares of Common Stock owned.  The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arena Resources, Inc. Announces Two-for-One Stock Split]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TULSA, Okla. -- Arena Resources, Inc. (NYSE-ARD) ("Company") ("Arena") today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a two-for-one stock split of its common stock effective to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 15, 2007. The split will be in the form of a stock...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NextWave Grants Stock Options to Employees Of IPWireless, Inc. Under NASDAQ Inducement Exception]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO -- NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) announced today that its independent compensation committee, at a meeting held on June 10, 2007, has approved inducement stock option grants to purchase an aggregate of 1,761,753 shares of the company's common stock to 87 new employees who joined the company as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NextWave Wireless Grants Stock Options to GO Networks Employees Under NASDAQ Inducement Exception]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO -- NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) announced today that its independent compensation committee, at a meeting held on May 24, 2007, has approved inducement stock option grants to purchase an aggregate of 1,218,250 shares of the company's common stock to 59 new employees who joined the company as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benihana Inc. Declares Stock Dividend and Amends Rights Agreement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI -- Benihana Inc. (NASDAQ: BNHNA and BNHN) today announced that the Company's Board of Directors unanimously declared a three-for-two stock split to be effected by means of a dividend of one-half of one share of Common Stock for each outstanding share of Common Stock and each outstanding share of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Continues Stock Repurchase Program]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBHI) today reported that its board of directors decided that the Company will continue to purchase its common stock under the common stock repurchase program announced in May of 2006.  Under the program, the Company may purchase up to 5% of its common stock,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[South Street Financial Corp. Announces Creation of Series A Preferred Stock and Share Conversion; Deregistration under the Securities and Exchange Act; Dividend]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBEMARLE, N.C. -- The Board of Directors of South Street Financial Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ: SSFC) has announced that the amendments to the Company's Articles of Incorporation approved by its shareholders at the March 20, 2007 special meeting have become effective. The first amendment authorized the creation of 500,000 shares...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alliance Bank and Alliance Bancorp, Inc. of Pennsylvania Announce Completion of Stock Offering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BROOMALL, Pa. -- Alliance Bank (the "Bank") (Nasdaq/Capital Market:ALLB) today announced the completion of the offering of shares of common stock of its mid-tier holding company, Alliance Bancorp, Inc. of Pennsylvania (the "Company"). In the offering, the Company sold 1,807,339 shares at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Keystone Corporation Announces Stock Repurchase Plan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Dec_27/ai_n27095228]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BERWICK, Pa. -- First Keystone Corporation (OTC BB:FKYS), parent company of The First National Bank of Berwick, announced that its Board of Directors authorized a plan to purchase, in open market and privately negotiated transactions, up to 160,000 shares of its outstanding common stock. This buy back program and shares...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FNB Bancorp Declares Stock Dividend]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- FNB Bancorp (OTCBB:FNBG), the holding company for First National Bank of Northern California, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a stock dividend of approximately 135,947 shares, payable at the rate of one share of Common Stock for every twenty (20) shares of Common...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Excel Technology, Inc. Authorizes Stock Buy Back]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[EAST SETAUKET, N.Y. -- Excel Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLTC) announced today that its Board of Directors had authorized a stock buy-back plan. The buy-back program authorizes the repurchase of up to 2,000,000 shares of its Common Stock, or 16.6% of the shares of Common Stock currently outstanding.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Texhoma Energy, Inc.'s Management Believes that the Company's Common Stock is Undervalued and May Purchase Shares of Common Stock in the Public Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texhoma Energy, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: TXHE) announced today that its management believes that the company's common stock is undervalued at the current trading price of its common stock, and may purchase shares of common stock in the open market. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Southridge Enterprises Inc. Forward Stock Split]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDMONTON, Alberta -- Southridge Enterprises Inc. (OTCBB:SDGE) (the "Company") announces that its Board of Directors has approved a five (5) for one (1) forward stock split of its authorized, issued and outstanding shares of common stock. Once effective, the Company's authorized capital will increase from 100,000,000 shares of common stock...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Leap sells 6.4M shares of stock.(News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4962/is_200609/ai_n18144943]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Leap Wireless International Inc. said it completed a public  offering of 6.4 million shares of common stock for $42 per share.       The sale included 840,000 shares of common stock sold as part of an  over-allotment option granted to the underwriters  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Corrections Corporation of America Announces 3-for-2 Stock Split]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW) (the "Company") announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a 3-for-2 stock split in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend on its common stock.  The stock dividend is payable on September 13, 2006 to stockholders of record on September...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[iBasis Regains NASDAQ Listing; Company Returns to NASDAQ National Market under IBAS Symbol Effective June 21, 2006]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BURLINGTON, Mass. -- iBasis, Inc. (OTCBB: IBSE), the global VoIP companyTM, announced today that its application for listing of its common stock on The NASDAQ National Market has been approved and iBasis common stock will begin trading on The NASDAQ National Market on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. At that time,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Colorado Springs Financial Briefs: April 28, 2006]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taxpayers used the Internal Revenue Service Web site at record levels on April 17 - and during the days leading up to it.During the week prior to the income tax filing deadline, there were 3,385,936 visits to IRS.gov. That number trumps last year's 3,337,300. And on April 17, IRS.gov set...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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