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		<title><![CDATA[How to Invest in Gold]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/article/how-to-invest-in-gold/301604/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about plunking some money into gold to hedge your bets? Don?t invest a dime until you read this cautionary advice.                          The Case for Gold...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[McKesson Pays $350 Million in Settlement That Lowers Drug Prices 4 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prices of about 1,400 branded drugs are about to get a little cheaper because of a $352.7 million class action settlement with wholesale drug distributor McKesson.    In addition to the payment, the prices of 1,442 medicines will be lowered by 4 percent, according to a federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:01:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dollar General Corporation F3Q08 (Quarter End 10/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions  Our first question comes from Emily Shanks - Barclays Capital. Emily Shanks - Barclays Capital You had very nice gross profit margin improvement.  I was hoping you could give us just a sense of what the magnitude of that improvement by way of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:32:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CALCULATING MARKUPS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q.Can you tell me if there's a rule that governs how much a broker-dealer may charge for miscellaneous fees and ticket charges and whether expenses like rent for office space and other overhead expenses can be recouped by including them in such miscellaneous fees? -W.T., New York   A.In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What does the future hold for at-cost services charges?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction  The Internal Revenue Service's new regulations under section 482 relating to intercompany services were intended to simplify the markup question for intercompany charges for routine services going forward. Have they? One of the biggest concerns many taxpayers will have with the new regulations is the administrative burden of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brand-supermarket demand for breakfast cereals and retail competition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most influential market equilibrium models for differentiated products is that of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995; hereafter, BLP), who use a random coefficients logit demand approach at the product brand level. The BLP approach, originally applied to automobiles, has also been applied at city or national levels...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Senate Appropriations 2007 Fusion markup.( Office of Fusion Energy Sciences)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6440/is_200607/ai_n25656321]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up the FY2007 DOE budget  bill, including funds for fusion. The Senate markup must be reconciled  with the House Appropriations bill passed earlier.    The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up the FY2007 DOE budget  bill, including funds for fusion. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Legislation Summary]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Defense Authorization Act NDAA bills are on a fast track, reflecting Congress's desire to recess by October 6.The preliminary bills were introduced the last week in April. These were based on the presidents budget and could be viewed as bare bones. Each of the House Armed Services' and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Selling is About Being Prepared.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4950/is_200606/ai_n18134002]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Doug Dwyer, Contributing Editor       Most sales training you will attend will discuss techniques and  steps of  selling. There are many great systems you can invest in, and  it is critical to  have a system.      ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Republicans on science committee vote in favor of commerce department's snub of Congress]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5730/is_7_13/ai_n29256924]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The House Science Committee last week clashed, at times colorfully, over whether to bow to a Department of Commerce decision to deny the panel's Democratic members access to material generated during a congressionally mandated study of offshoring. The panel failed, however, to settle the matter in a way that satisfied...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Telecommunications debate moves ahead.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6639/is_200512/ai_n26537528]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind the scenes work has been moving ahead on possible  significant changes to the Communications Act during the closing months  of 2005, focusing on reforming the local cable and video franchising  process. While a crisis was averted on Capitol Hill when markup on a  potentially bad...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Business Cycles and Monetary Regimes in Emerging Economies: A Role for a Monopolistic Banking Sector]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting from a variant of the New Keynesian model for a small open economy, this paper extends the standard credit channel framework to show that the presence of imperfect competition in the banking system propagates external shocks and amplifies the business cycle. This novel modeling of the banking system captures...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Center for Financial Services Innovation Announces 2005 Grant Awards; Pioneering Projects Range Across Financial Services Spectrum]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Sept_12/ai_n15382936]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- The Center for Financial Services Innovation CFSI today announced its nonprofit grant recipients for 2005. They are:  --Appleseed Foundation, which will research the transparency of foreign exchange rate markup charged for remittances and then launch a fair exchange rate branding campaign. These markups are often poorly disclosed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In a tight budget mfg. extension gets a green light]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5730/is_11_12/ai_n29186731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Commerce Department's Manufacturing Extension Partnership MEP, NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the National Science Foundation NSF all emerged from last week's House Appropriations subcommittee markup of the Science, State, Justice & Commerce spending bill with higher 2006 funding levels than requested by the administration.  But the Advanced...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Market Size, Trade, and Productivity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper develops a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences - and endogenous differences in the 'toughness' of competition across markets - in terms of the number and average productivity of competing firms. It analyzes how these features vary across markets of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asbestos bill bogs down in markup efforts; After a contentious hearing and a slow start, work to resume May 12.( )]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5252/is_200505/ai_n20158559]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN    WASHINGTON-Following an unsuccessful markup bid last week, the  Senate Judiciary Committee will wait until next week to resume  consideration of a bill that would create a $140 billion no-fault trust  fund to replace the litigation-based system for compensating victims of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[House Energy Bill Markup Begins]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5375/is_200505/ai_n21371690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The House Energy and Commerce Committee got down to business on the comprehensive energy bill April 6, with the start of the markup process that originally was scheduled to end the next day. This process was instead extended through the following week, so that a congressional delegation could travel to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The clock is ticking.(Slants & Trends)(speculations over passing of bills on literacy programs)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4389/is_200409/ai_n15294497]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[THE CLOCK IS TICKING--Time is running out for key reauthorization  and spending bills, as Congress heads back to Washington this week after  a month-long recess. Many have plans to leave town again quickly to hit  the campaign trail. That will not leave much time for action on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Honda's race problem.(Names In The News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6664/is_200409/ai_n26588391]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[AMERICAN HONDA FINANCE CORPORATION discriminates against African  Americans.    That's the finding of a July report prepared by Mark Cohen of  Vanderbilt University.    The report was based on an examination of records of 383,652  American Honda Finance Corporation AHFC customers over the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report Finding Discrimination in Auto Loan Markups Leads to New Filing in California Court Case]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_July_27/ai_n6126188]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO -- In response to a new report on discriminatory auto loan markups by American Honda Finance Corporation, Bill Lann Lee, the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, announced,  "We are submitting this report to the court in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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