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Business archive
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Firms eye underemployed, retirees to ward off labor shortage
MILWAUKEE -- Antoinette Lucero figured she'd never find a job. Unemployed and on welfare for five years, she wondered who would hire a deaf woman with little training.
Cartoon characters appear in produce aisles
LOS ANGELES -- Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob and the Tasmanian Devil are coming to a produce aisle near you.
Creative commuters ditch their cars
NEW YORK -- Six years ago, Bruce Wilbur did what most Americans wouldn't dream of: he got rid of his car. And his minivan, too.
Huge oil pool tapped in Gulf of Mexico
WASHINGTON -- A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation's reserves by more than 50 percent.
Delta pilot's pension plan terminated
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Delta Air Lines Inc.'s request to terminate its pilots' pension plan.
Local tourism:
Inside Napa Valley