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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2½ years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a \"Cadillac\" health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Key currency exchange rates Monday, compared with late Friday in New York:
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to help lead an education initiative aimed at helping students excel at science, technology, engineering and math.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Investors halted a three-day losing streak on the stock market, sending prices broadly higher on a weaker dollar and better-than-expected home sales numbers.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Dutch telecommunications company Royal KPN NV said Monday it has agreed to buy the outstanding shares of iBasis Inc., a Massachusetts-based wholesale international long distance carrier, for $3 each in cash.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CHICAGO (AP) — Agriculture futures fell Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Peet\'s Coffee & Tea Inc., hoping for a stake in the growing single-serve coffee brewing market, on Monday boosted its bid for a wholesale roaster and distributor by 24 percent.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('DENVER (AP) — You drag yourself out of bed, head reluctantly to work and watch the minutes tick off the clock. Even a grocery list seems like more fun than your job, and you dream of being just about any place else.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from Haitian-American investors has pleaded guilty.
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