Germany and France moved closer to full fiscal union by announcing they will be 'harmonising' their corporate tax rates - a move that raises the prospect of an EU-wide enforced tax rate that the UK has heavily opposed.
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It’s been said that everything old eventually becomes new again. And so it is with Sizzler, the once famous steak and salad bar eatery based out of Culver City, Calif., that appears poised for a comeback, including a return here to Naperville. The familiar family-...
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Chances are, you or someone you know has had a run-in with bed bug s. It might have happened in a scrupulously clean bedroom. Or maybe it was a hotel room, office or college dorm. In the February issue of Scientific American entomologist Kenneth Haynes of the University of Kentucky explains...
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Ever wonder why flies always get away when you try to swat them? It turns out they’re extremely acrobatic. Like, Neo-in-the-Matrix acrobatic. And New Scientist has captured one in near bullet-time to prove it.
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Federal employees in Illinois are expressing both relief and anger that a government shutdown was narrowly avoided. Social Security Administration employee Jill Hornick of Crete said Saturday it was “utterly ridiculous” that it took the Obama administration and Congress...
House Republicans on Monday shrugged off President Barack Obama’s threat to veto their legislation to cut federal spending by trillions of dollars, even as they negotiated with him over more modest steps to avert a potential government default.
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Old luxury brands tend to evolve at a snail’s pace, maybe because their (often old) buyers aren’t the most accepting of change. Nevertheless, survival of any carmaker depends on its appeal to varying generations, ultimately making change inevitable. Bentley took a gigantic step off the beaten path...
Stock indexes are finishing the day mixed. The Dow is ending up 72 points at 12,921. The S&P 500 dropped a fraction of a point to 1,370, and Apple dragged down the Nasdaq. It closed down 23 points at 2,988.