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• Book buzz

  - 2008-06-19

  Think Pink: It's no surprise that Oprah Winfrey gave copies of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth to the 4,666 graduates of Stanford University when she gave the commencement address on...

  Tags: McClellan, SALES, USA Today, White House

• RE/MAX CENTRAL of Las Vegas Foreclosure Bus Tours Featured in USA Today "Bargain Hunters Boost Home Sales in Some Markets"

  - 2008-04-18

  LAS VEGAS -- RE/MAX CENTRAL of Las Vegas, home of the number one RE/MAX Team in the world, recently launched a Foreclosure Bus Tour for consumers and investors that has been featured via a cover story in the USA TODAY "Bargain Hunters Boost Home Sales in Some Markets."

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• 'Profit motive' can benefit everyone

  - 2007-11-14

  If Thomas Robertson, the new dean of Wharton School, really wants his students to be a 'force for good' in the world, he ought to teach them the virtue of the profit motive, not altruism ("Wharton dean wants school seen as 'force for good,' USATODAY.com, Saturday). ...

  Tags: benefit, Entrepreneurship, SALES, USA Today, Wharton School

• NFL Draft primer

  - 2007-04-28

  When: Saturday-Sunday Where: New York City Saturday (Rounds 1-3): 10 a.m.-6 p.m. ESPN; 6-8 p.m. (ESPN2) Sunday (Rounds 4-7): 9 a.m.-4 p.m. ESPN On the clock: Oakland Raiders Top prospects In alphabetical order Gaines Adams, DE,...

  Tags: Associated Press, ESPN, MLB, NFL, Penn State, SALES, USA Today, Utah

• Selig must act quickly in Matthews steroid probe

  - 2007-03-06

  If Major League Baseball and other investigators can prove that Gary Matthews Jr. used illegal steroids and human growth hormone, Commissioner Bud Selig must discipline the Los Angeles Angels outfielder. MLB attorneys will be in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday to meet with Albany County District Attorney...

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• Ford to resurrect Taurus name, abandon Five Hundred

  - 2007-02-08

  Ford Motor never should have abandoned the name Taurus for its family cars, the company's new CEO, Alan Mullaly, says. "In hindsight, we would have just made the Five Hundred the new version of the Taurus. It's clear to me now that if I'd been here...

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• Executive Suite

  - 2006-11-06

  Watch, listen & read By Jacqueline Blais, USA TODAY On TV Iconoclasts Airs on Sundance, Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET/PT Two people -- seemingly unlikely matches -- get together for hour-long conversations about creativity and how they work. *Thursday: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and singer/songwriter Fiona Apple. *Nov....

  Tags: Borders Books & Music, CAREER, FINANCE, Investment, Jones, PBS, SALES, stock, Thompson, USA Today

• FIRST MONDAY

  - 2006-07-03

  Mid-July: Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick leaves his post after 16 months to join Goldman Sachs. The No.2 official at the State Department and former U.S. trade representative was the primary U.S. diplomat handling relations with the Sudan's volatile Darfur region and China. July 17-23: Boeing and Airbus...

  Tags: Airbus S.A.S., Benefits, Boeing Co., China, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Investment, Liberty Property Trust, Robert, SALES, USA Today

• USA TODAY automaker roundtable -- Interest rates kindle worry

  - 2006-04-24

  Participants in the 2006 USA TODAY Automaker Roundtable held a wide-ranging discussion, exploring such topics as new products, economic concerns, safety and environmental innovations and pricing strategies. Panelists for this year's roundtable, held April 11 in New York, were Mark LaNeve of General Motors, Joe Eberhardt of DaimlerChrysler, Richard Colliver...

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• Ad money lures established media into uncharted waters

  - 2006-04-12

  So I ask Mark Cuban -- a man who enjoys disrupting the establishment as much as any billionaire around -- why the media industry seems to have gone insane lately. Press releases about deals that would've defied belief just a couple of years ago are flying like golf balls...

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