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• Tech firms win reprieve on options expensing.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--Technology companies won a six-month reprieve Wednesday from looming accounting rules that would soon have required them to subtract billions of dollars' worth of stock options from their ...

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• U.S. Supreme Court blocks law targeting online pornography.

  - 2004-06-30

  By Jim Puzzanghera, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 30--WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a federal law that would use criminal penalties to shield minors from online pornography, ruling that the 1998 statute probably violates...

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• Lawmakers Urge Suspension of Airline Passenger Screening System.

  - 2004-02-14

  By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14--A bipartisan group of 22 members of Congress on Friday urged the suspension of a controversial airline passenger screening system, in light of a study that concluded the government...

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• Business-Travel Group Seeks Scrutiny of Proposed Air-Passenger Screening.

  - 2004-02-03

  By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 3--A national business-travel group that includes a half-dozen Bay Area firms appealed to Congress on Monday to hold hearings on a controversial airline-passenger screening program that the federal ...

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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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• Southern California Fires Might Break Deadlock over Effort to Thin Forests.

  - 2003-10-28

  By Jim Puzzanghera, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 28--WASHINGTON--Legislation to reduce the risk of wildfires -- proposed more than a year ago after earlier Western blazes -- has been stalled in Congress for months because lawmakers have...

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• Picturesque, Coastal Land Off California's Highway 1 Remains Closed to Public.

  - 2003-09-12

  By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 12--When a conservation group spent $29 million to purchase a breathtakingly beautiful stretch of the San Mateo County coast from developers two years ago, the idea was that by...

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• U.S. Forest Service Wants to Ignore Mass E-Mails.

  - 2003-04-23

  By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23--In a move that could dismantle an increasingly popular type of citizen activism, a federal agency is proposing to ignore form letters sent by the public via e-mail that...

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• Silicon Valley Companies Push for Tax Break on Offshore Profits.

  - 2003-04-07

  By Heather Fleming Phillips, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 7--WASHINGTON--Silicon Valley companies are lobbying to get a piece of the tax-cut pie that's being divvied up in Congress over the next several weeks: They're pushing for a...

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• U.S. Technology Budget to Rise to Fight Terrorism, Link Computer Systems.

  - 2003-01-21

  By Aaron Davis, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 21--President Bush will ask Congress to boost federal spending on information technology by $5 billion next year to continue fighting terrorism and to begin combining the computer systems of...

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