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Obama to check incentives to invest in overseas jobs

Welcome Guest! You Are Here: Home Business "We must protect environment to ensure sustainable development. In whatever we do, we should not forget forest and environment," Gandhi says.

Funeral founder Evans dies at the age of 80

A funeral chapel bears his name. Another boasts his protÈgÈ. And if it weren't for him Exeter might not have its own ambulance district. Donald L. Evans was an integral figure in the funeral home business and a business leader in the Exeter community.

Miss Manners: A note on thanks

Dear Miss Manners: My dear mama was quite firm in her insistence that a thank-you note should never, under any circumstances, begin with the words "Thank you." Rather, it should always start with something along the lines of "How did you know I love diamonds?" or "It was so wonderful to come home... Business - Beauty Pageants - Arts and Entertainment - Etiquette - Relationships

A vile act, a city's new low

They ate the pizza. That's just one of the things that hits so hard in what may be the vilest slaying in this city in many, many years. The killers, "scumbags,'' as the mayor called them yesterday, ate one slice after another from a box covered with the blood of the deliveryman they just killed. Pizza - Cooking - Home - Business - Collections and Indexes

Nursing home co. settles $677M lawsuit for $50M

A California nursing home operator has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit that threatened to bankrupt the company after a jury ordered it to pay $677 million for failing to provide enough nurses and staff.