Make My News
Date: 28 September 2007
By MICHELLE SALE and JAVAID KHAN
Michelle SALE
In this lesson, students learn about an original news program aimed at younger audiences. They then develop teasers and scripts for podcasts featuring news stories that might not typically interest their peer group.
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Nominee Would Take Big Pay Cut
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Michael B. Mukasey earned nearly $2 million in the past 21 months compared with just $186,000 he would earn annually as attorney general.
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Baby Furniture Maker Recalls Playpens
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kolcraft Enterprises recalled 425,000 playpens on Thursday, following the strangulation of a 10-month-old boy.
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Insurance Broker Wins Dismissal of a Customer Lawsuit
Date: 29 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marsh & McLennan, the world’s largest insurance broker, won dismissal Friday of almost all of a customer lawsuit that accused the company of colluding with insurers to fix prices.
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A.I.G. Cuts 600 Jobs to Combine Units
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The job cuts come as part of A.I.G.’s move to combine units with the newly acquired 21st Century Insurance Group.
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Hope for Another Rate Cut Lifts Shares
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The stock market rose as investors speculated that a drop in new home sales would give the Federal Reserve more reason to lower interest rates.
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Foxtons Shuts Down
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Foxtons, a discount real estate agency that brokered home sales for a 3 percent commission, shut its operations on Thursday and said it might file for bankruptcy protection.
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More Good News
Date: 28 September 2007
By Floyd Norris
Floyd Norris
Why a weak economy is bullish
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China: A Move to Restrain Prices
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nation’s benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool surging property prices.
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Germany: Cost Cuts at BMW
Date: 28 September 2007
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bayerische Motoren Werke will cut spending by 6 billion euros ($8.5 billion) over five years and change senior management after losing ground to the Mercedes Car Group of DaimlerChrysler.
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