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ASSOCIATED PRESSSaturday, October 13, 2007 DALLAS — American Airlines raised many domestic fares by $5 each way but left prices unchanged on routes where it competes with low-cost carriers.
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BASTROP — Despite skepticism about its effectiveness and warnings of "a slippery slope," trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas on Friday agreed to take up Gov. Rick Perry's request to sell the shares it holds in companies that do business in Iran.
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LOS ANGELES — Prince freed himself from record labels years ago. Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have followed. Now the Material Girl appears to be kissing her big-name record company goodbye for a cool $120 million. Could U2 be next? Justin Timberlake? Coldplay?
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BANGKOK, Thailand — China's and India's plans to produce more biofuels could cause shortages of water, which is needed for crops to feed their growing populations, according to a water study released Thursday.
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RENO, Nev. — A jury levied a $134.5 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth in a lawsuit filed by three Nevada women who claimed the company's hormone replacement drugs caused their breast cancer.
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Windy Point Park, a popular recreation spot on Lake Travis, is for sale for $15 million. The 11.5-acre tract, with about 2,000 feet of shoreline, is owned by Bob Barstow and his son, Richard, through a limited partnership.
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The Sematech research consortium is negotiating to sell its research laboratory in Southeast Austin as it shifts more researchers and support workers to Albany, N.Y., where it is expanding its operations. Sematech Inc.
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It started in Plano. Now it's in Houston, Dallas and Austin. Whole Foods Market Inc. has joined other national grocery retailers in the move toward digital pricing. Instead of using traditional pricing labels on shelves, Whole Foods has switched to electronic tags to save time and money.
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Friday, October 12, 2007 Computer gaming giant Electronic Arts Inc. is back in town. The company, which closed its Austin operations in 2004, said Thursday that it is buying BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios for $825 million.
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Friday, October 12, 2007 INVESTMENT BANKING JPMorgan Chase to shed jobs after slump in leveraged loans NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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NEW YORK — With disappointing September sales behind them, the nation's retailers are left with piles of cashmere sweaters, coats and other heavy fall items that have been languishing on their shelves because of the steamy weather.
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Friday, October 12, 2007 National Instruments gives $100,000 to kids' hospital National Instruments Inc. donated $100,000 to the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas.
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The C.A. Schutze Insurance Agency is easy to miss. The modest 1,700 square-foot brown insurance building sits on South Congress Avenue among new luxury apartment complexes, clothing boutiques and upscale salons.
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NEW YORK — Investment firms have begun to discover racial differences within participation rates of 401(k) retirement plans, a gap that could leave today's black workers less financially prepared for retirement than whites.
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Austin's retail market is going full throttle, with three major openings this month. Central Texas will be getting about 2 million square feet of new retail space with the debuts of the Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave, 1890 Ranch in Cedar Park and University Oaks in Round Rock.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 What:Chuy's and Cheddar's restaurants will join the lineup of tenants at the Shops at Arbor Trails, 4301 W. William Cannon Drive. When: Both restaurants are scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2008.
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Dell Inc. on Wednesday announced a new system for commercial customers designed to remove sensitive data from desktop PCs without compromising the end user's computing experience.
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COMPILED FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTSThursday, October 11, 2007 AIRLINES Reseller of Southwest passes goes belly up DALLAS — A company that resold Southwest Airlines Co.
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COMPILED FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTSThursday, October 11, 2007 BIOMARKER TESTING Rules-Based Medicine gets grant Austin-based Rules-Based Medicine Inc. received a $1.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.
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WASHINGTON — Behold the Toyota Yaris. It's moderately priced, gets good gas mileage and has a gun turret capable of destroying toasters and bike-riding sumo wrestlers as it cruises down a track.
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ASSOCIATED PRESSThursday, October 11, 2007 DALLAS — TXU Corp., the biggest power generator in Texas, officially passed from public to private ownership Wednesday and got a new name as investors closed the $32 billion buyout.
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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative four-year contract with Chrysler on Wednesday, hours after going on strike, and on the same day General Motors workers ratified a separate four-year pact. Next up: Ford.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 What: Construction on a $40 million, 118-unit luxury condominium complex called Skyline is scheduled to begin later this year. The public sales period begins today.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Hoping to woo shoppers who say eBay Inc. has lost its folksy appeal, the world's largest online auction plans to launch its own version of a social networking service today and is promising other customer-friendly features by year's end.
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