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Audit: Pentagon’s largest building project is a mess
The U.S. Defense Department’s largest single-facility construction project – a building in Germany – is plagued by rising costs and substandard work, congressional auditors...
Steel pipe makers object to imports from China
Twelve producers of steel tubes used in fencing have filed a new trade complaint against Chinese imports, saying they are unfairly subsidized by the...
Paulson urges rejection of third-party suits
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said last week that allowing victims of business fraud to file class-action suits against third parties...
Insurer, lawyers fined $1.25M in 9/11 coverage case
Zurich American Insurance Group and two law firms representing the insurer have been fined $1.25 million for hiding evidence and denying coverage in a...
Microsoft changing Vista after Google complaint
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to change the Vista operating system after Google Inc. complained the software violates a 2001 antitrust settlement by hindering its...
FDA not ready to sign off<br> on Pfizer’s new HIV drug
Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, has failed to win U.S. approval for maraviroc, the first new type of medicine in a decade to...
Most Americans support Senate immigration bill
Most Americans back a guest-worker program and a proposal allowing illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens that were part of legislation the Senate shelved...
1031 Tax Group customers seeking<br> liquidation of company assets
Customers of 1031 Tax Group LLC, a bankrupt real estate trust that is reorganizing under court protection, have asked a judge to liquidate its...
Fed: Housing to dampen growth for most of 2007
Federal Reserve officials are predicting the U.S. housing recession will last longer than they anticipated, while continuing to judge that inflation is the biggest...
Bankers group agrees to student-loan standards
A trade group that includes student-loan providers pledged to abide by certain ethical standards to reassure borrowers and lawmakers who are investigating the $85-billion-a-year...








