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'); document.write(''); document.write('DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — This blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send men to space. After the collapse of its aerospace industry, it ambitions are now more down-to-earth but still looking toward the future.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — A drop in unemployment claims and a rise in home sales pulled the stock market higher in light trading ahead of Thanksgiving.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Global Defense Technology & Systems Inc. said Wednesday that it closed its initial public offering of 4.6 million common shares, which were priced at $13 apiece and yielded $36.3 million in net proceeds.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Deutsche Bank AG and a BNP Paribas unit sued Bank of America NA on Wednesday over allegations the bank failed to pay back $1.73 billion in secured notes.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice \"Hank\" Greenberg, the company said late Wednesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK — The Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for November, 10 a.m.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('A drop in unemployment claims and a rise in home sales pulled the stock market higher in light trading ahead of Thanksgiving. Modest gains Wednesday left the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor\'s 500 index at 13-month highs. The economic news, as well as a drop in the dollar, stoked investors\' appetite for higher-returning but riskier investments like stocks. For months, investors have been weighing their desire for bigger returns with fears that the stock market will falter if the economy looks like it won\'t maintain a recovery.
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