Kickers could claim the spotlight
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GLENDALE, Ariz. New York’s Lawrence Tynes has thought about kicking the winning field goal in the Super Bowl.
“It’s something I started dreaming about this week,” he said.
Not Stephen Gostkowski.
“If I’m too worried about the last-second kick, what about the [...]
Jittery employers cut jobs
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WASHINGTON In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt, if it hasn’t already toppled into recession.
Conditions are deteriorating, according to [...]
Jazz having month to remember
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At the conclusion of last month, they stood 17-16. Now, they are 27-18.
They have won five straight games and 11 of their last 13 overall.
Contrasting the debacle that was December to the rejuvenation that is January, the Northwest Division-leading Jazz are playing [...]
Foreclosures rose 75% in 2007
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The number of U.S. homeowners entering the foreclosure process climbed 75 percent in 2007 from a year earlier, as mortgages became more difficult to refinance and falling property values made it tougher to sell.
Despite the increasingly difficult mortgage situation, Utah bucked the trend with a [...]
Sullivan amp; Cromwell Is Top Deal Adviser; Pace to Slow (Update3)
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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Sullivan %26amp; Cromwell, hired to advise
on six of the 10 biggest deals in 2007, led all law firms in
mergers and acquisitions for the fourth year in a row.
[...]
Pakistan Election Delayed; Musharraf Pledges `Free Fair#39; Vote
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Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Pakistans general election, delayed
by six weeks to Feb. 18, will be “free, fair and transparent,
President Pervez Musharraf said on national television.
“We also must ensure elections are peaceful, [...]
Kenya#39;s Kibaki Says He#39;s Open to Talks to End Crisis (Update1)
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Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) — Kenyas President Mwai Kibaki said
hes open to talks with opposition parties over a disputed
presidential ballot that sparked violence and exposed ethnic
tensions in the east African nation.
Kibaki met [...]
Clinton Says Dealing With Campaign Strain `Not Easy#39; (Update1)
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton, her voice cracking, told voters in New
Hampshire “its not easy to keep going in a long political
campaign “against some pretty difficult odds.
The question [...]
Corzine Calls for Debt Reduction Spending Freeze (Update4)
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Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine
presented lawmakers with a proposal for fixing government
finances, giving them two months to adopt his plan or come up
with one of their own.
Corzine [...]
New York#39;s Spitzer Proposes Tax Cap Lottery Sale (Update2)
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Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,
facing a $4.3 billion budget gap and his lowest poll ratings,
started his second year in office with proposals to study
limiting local property taxes and to sell or lease part of the
lottery to fund an endowment for [...]
