United hopes to munch on snack sales
CHICAGO — Starting Aug. 1, passengers who get the midair munchies on select United Airlines flights will be able to buy chips, cookies, candy and trail mix, all for $3 apiece.
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Microsoft-Yahoo saga continues
San Jose Mercury News
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Rates on 30-year mortgages drop to 6.35 percent
WASHINGTON — Rates on 30-year mortgages, which had been rising for five straight weeks, posted a decline this week as signals from the Federal Reserve eased worries about imminent rate increases.
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Wall Street: Oil prices surge to new record
Investors nervous about GM troubles; Dow falls 166 points
NEW YORK — Wall Street resumed its sell-off Wednesday after oil hit a new record and a bearish analyst report renewed concerns that General Motors Corp. could run out of cash.
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Foreign airlines lure clients with posh frills
Global jet-setters can take advantage of on-demand video, free liquor
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Flying on domestic airlines these days is no frills and often no fun. But for those who fly foreign airlines, it's champagne and tandoori.
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Business in brief July 3
Free gas promo at boutique
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Starbucks to close 600 US stores, rein in growth
SEATTLE — For a decade it appeared there was no such thing as too many Starbucks for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy its $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street — and sometimes even a third.
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Wal-Mart branches out into locally grown produce
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon sweet onions while aisles in New York display state-grown eggplant, as the world's largest retailer says it has become the nation's largest buyer of locally grown fruits and vegetables.
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Yolanda Hoemann and John Anderson don't know each other, but they both shop at Big Jo True Value Hardware, the city of Santa Fe's 2008 Small Business of the Year.
And they both like the Siler Road business with perhaps the friendliest staff in Santa Fe.
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Wachovia quits offering risky loan
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Beleaguered consumer bank Wachovia Corp. said Monday that it will quit offering a mortgage payment option that allows borrowers to pay less each month than the bank charges in interest.
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