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- Equestrian Images
- With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, my November challenges are nearing their end. Willy helped me out with yesterday's word, "circles." The rubber feed tubs were circles too, ones of great importance to a horse as well, but they just didn't…
- Seattle Post Intelligencer
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- US 30-yr mortgage rate falls to match record low
- NEW YORK(Reuters) - U.S. mortgage rates sank to or near record lows in the past week, home funding company Freddie Mac said, improving affordability in a battered U.S. housing market that is starting to gather steam. U.S. 30-year mortgage…
- CNN Money
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- College Notebook: Doyle to speak to UWM grads, ex chaplain to…
- Gov. Jim Doyle will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's commencement Dec. 20. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at US Cellular Arena, 400 W. Kilbourn Ave. The university expects about 1,350 bachelor's degree candidates, about…
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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- American artists, writers and musicians in Iceland
- I went to Iceland three months ago because I knew it was a country of paradoxes. For starters, there are only about 300,000 Icelanders. Yet most of them are really literate. Much of the small island is covered in ice. Yet their homes are…
- World
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- "Cancer of fraud" permeates U.S. healthcare system
- MIAMI - It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A U.S. Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment…
- CNBC
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- Toledo woman says Jackson helped her retain house
- ... thousands of homes at the same time." "We intend to meet with them before the week is out to start a broader relationship," he said. He said he plans to raise the issue Jan. 13-15 when the Rainbow/PUSH "Wall Street Project" meets in…
- Toledo Blade
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- WRAPUP 2-US consumer spending rises, jobless claims falls
- WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer spending and housing sales rose more than expected in October while new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week, suggesting the economic recovery was gaining traction. An unexpected…
- Forex Pros
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- 50 minutes ago
- State budgets lean on property sales, leases
- The Arizona House of Representatives’ office, one of the buildings the state is considering selling as part of a sale-leaseback program to raise cash, would cost a private owner more than $18 million. Lawmakers would continue to occupy the…
- Stateline
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- 2 hours ago
Stateline- TREASURIES-Bonds ease on recovery hopes, ahead of auction
- NEW YORK, Nov 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury debt prices eased on Wednesday after a bigger-than-expected dip in weekly jobless claims and a forecast-beating rise in October consumer spending bolstered hopes of a nascent economic recovery.…
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- Dollar slumps to 15-month euro low
- The 16-nation euro climbed to $1.5077 in early New York trading from $1.4975 late Tuesday, having earlier risen to ... The Commerce Department, meanwhile, said sales of new homes rose last month to the highest level in more than a year, and…
- San Francisco Chronicle
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