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• U.S. economic recovery will continue to inch along.

  - 2004-09-08

  By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 8--The boom won't be back anytime soon as the plodding pace of the national economic recovery will continue over the next two years, according to a respected report...

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• Mortgage Rates Likely to Hold Steady.

  - 2004-01-29

  By Sue McAllister, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 29--The Federal Reserve's decision Wednesday not to change a key short-term lending rate reinforces the likelihood that interest rates on long-term loans such as mortgages will remain near ...

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• Economist Sees Good Year for San Jose, Calif., Area.

  - 2004-01-08

  By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 8--Silicon Valley financial commentator Jeanette Garretty in her annual economic forecast to the San Jose Rotary Club on Wednesday predicted a year of solid growth for the valley....

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• Coalition of High-Tech Firms to Urge Officials to Help Keep U.S. Competitive.

  - 2004-01-08

  By Jim Puzzanghera, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 8--WASHINGTON -- Concerned about the growing economic threat from India and China, a coalition of America's top high-technology companies, including Hewlett Packard and Intel, plans to press U.S. ...

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• San Jose, Calif., Transit System's Ticket Machines Spit Back New $20 Bills.

  - 2003-10-10

  By Chuck Carroll, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 10--With a splash of peach, blue and yellow sprinkled across its face, the new $20 currency note made its debut across the nation Thursday, and almost immediately some Bay...

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• Airport Screener Bill Goes to House.

  - 2002-11-20

  By Aaron Davis, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20--The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill that includes a provision that would allow thousands of non-U.S. citizen screeners who lost their jobs at airports -- including nearly 1,000...

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• United to Slash 500 Jobs in San Francisco.

  - 2002-10-22

  By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--United Airlines said Monday it is cutting 1,250 jobs -- nearly half of them at a San Francisco flight reservation center -- as part of a cost-cutting effort to...

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• California Senator Works on Legislation for Airport Security Workers.

  - 2001-12-08

  By Aaron Davis and Ann E. Marimow, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Thousands of security workers scheduled to be fired next year in the name of national security might get a reprieve under legislation being drafted by...

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• Employees of Santa Cruz, Calif., University To Strike.

  - 2001-04-20

  By David L. Beck, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--When thousands of parents and alumni hit UC-Santa Cruz this weekend for the Banana Slug Spring Fair, they'll be greeted by something new at the campus entrances: pickets....

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• CEO of Silicon Valley Coalition Heads to Washington.

  - 2001-02-21

  By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 21--SAN JOSE, Calif.--Ruben Barrales stepped down as chief executive of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network on Tuesday to work for President Bush. Barrales will serve as...

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