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		<title><![CDATA[Govt Spending Rose 0.7% in Sept: ABS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General government final consumption expenditure rose by 0.7 per cent in the September quarter in seasonally adjusted chain volume terms, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS said on Tuesday.General government gross fixed capital formation rose by 6.7 per cent while gross fixed capital formation by public corporations rose by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:38:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform: Who?s Paying to Shape It?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With billions of dollars at stake in health care reform, insurers, drugmakers, hospitals, and other big players are spending hundreds of millions to lobby Congress. Here?s what they want ? and what they?ve gotten so far. by Catherine Holahan]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GSK's $15m fees data go online]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ GlaxoSmithKline paid close to $15m (£9m) in speaking and consulting fees to US doctors in the second quarter of this year, revealing the scale of commercial links to influential prescribers.GSK published on its website 121 pages listing more than 3,700 doctors who had received fees for work including speaking...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:37:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to buy healthcare software firm]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft is planning to acquire health software company Sentillion for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft aims to merge Sentillion's single-sign technology with its own Amalga Unified Intelligence System to offer doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers streamlined access to patient data from a range of sources.    ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:09:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Slammed by Senate Committee, $600M for Community Centers, Nurses Unite, NJ Court Boosts ASCs and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roundup of healthcare news by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:23:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Govt Expects Xmas Broadband Breakthrough]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Federal Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy says he is confident the government will have significant progress to announce by Christmas in the broadband negotiations with Telstra.Discussions with Telstra continue to be "very constructive", Senator Conroy told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.Telstra was committed to understanding what the government's direction was,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:31:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[William Ackman Is Big on Sears, Not Retail-Sales Figures]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pershing Square Capital head William Ackman is betting that lagging retail sales aren't an indicator of the industry's health as a whole. by Ian Ritter]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:20:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cantel Medical Corp. F1Q10 (Qtr End 10/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Dalton Chandler &#8211; Needham & Company.  Dalton Chandler &#8211; Needham & Company Let me start by asking a little bit about your comments on the disposables business and your expectation it will return...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:41:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nobel Laureate: Look for Local Solutions to Climate Change]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Copenhagen this week as the world's leaders convene their to discuss the global response to climate change. Environmental activists are clamoring for governments to do more about the problem, but according to this year's Nobel laureate in economics we all should be looking closer to home...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:22:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Iran says Saudis took atom scientist]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Iran accused Saudi Arabia yesterday of handing over a senior Iranian nuclear scientist to the US.Shahram Amiri, thought to be in his early 30s, vanished in Mecca on May 31 while on pilgrimage. He worked at Iran's nuclear plant in Natanz, where uranium is enriched.His disappearance has stoked tensions...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Homeowners face steadily rising interest rates during the next two years with the Reserve Bank's cash rate reaching 5.5 per cent in 2011, economists say.The results of the Australian Business Economists ABE annual forecasting survey, released on Tuesday, forecast the cash rate to reach 4.75 per cent in 2010,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Government 2.0 Report | BTalk Australia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[podcast] A declaration of Open Government is the central recommendation in the Government 2.0 Taskforce's draft report, which is now seeking input from people just like you! by Phil Dobbie]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[China to Boost Domestic Demand, Exports]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ China said Monday it would maintain its pro-growth monetary policy for 2010, while also pushing on with efforts to stimulate domestic demand and boost exports, state media reported.The announcement came at the end of a key annual economic meeting to outline policy for next year.The central economic work conference...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Industry Has Influence In Reform Bill's Research Institute]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate reform bill would establish a comparative effectiveness research institute that would be heavily influenced by the healthcare industry. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:20:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UPDATED: Merck Wants No Public Option in Healthcare Reform]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management at Merck MRK recently hosted a visit from analysts at Leerink Swann, where they discussed the company's position on healthcare reform. Merck supports President Obama's reform effort except for one thing -- the company doesn't want to see the public option happen. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Spread Rumor That Healthcare Reform Mandates Microchip Implants]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative fringe wingnuts are spreading false rumors that the healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives contains a requirement that microchips be implanted in Americans before they can receive healthcare. To hear the extremists tell it, "This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:40:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citysearch Gets Real-Time Fever, Lets Biz Owners Log In, Update Twitter Remotely]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The rush to incorporate real-time status updates has even hit IAC&#8217;s Citysearch. Starting today, business owners will be able to create and manage their Twitter accounts directly from a Citysearch page. A restaurant, bar or health clubs&#8217; most recent three tweets will show up alongside their ratings, reviews and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:01:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What To Do When A Government Contracts With Itself?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/10004403/what-to-do-when-a-government-contracts-with-itself/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In England the Government was forced to bail out the Royal Bank of Scotland and became the majority shareholder.  Now it is part of one team bidding on a major contract.  This raises conflict of issue and favoritism concerns.  The same could happen in the U.S. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Qld Budget Deficit Grows]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Queensland government is forecast to record a $2.351 billion deficit for 2009/10, blowing out from a budget forecast of $1.954 billion, Treasurer Andrew Fraser says.Releasing the mid-year economic and fiscal review on Friday, Mr Fraser said unemployment was now expected to peak at 6.5 per cent in 2010/11,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:37:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ArcSight Inc. F2Q10 (Qtr End 31/10/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-14061_23-370234.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Scott Zeller - Needham & Co. Scott Zeller - Needham & Co. Could you talk to was about visibility going forward refer from other companies who is have reported that the federal space as been particularly strong and there is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:08:19 -0800</pubDate>
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