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USA Technologies Inc.'s management today urged shareholders to reject an effort by a dissent investor group to win three seats on the company's board of directors.
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Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Raslavich agreed today to extend until at least Jan. 31 the period during which Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C. has the exclusive right to propose a reorganization plan for its newspapers and Web site, The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com.
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A group headed by billionaire investor Carl Icahn that is buying Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino and Resort will get a tax break if it sells the casino within the next few years.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors in an effort to balance a $110 million deficit.
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A tentative contract agreement between Harley-Davidson and union members at its York, Pa., plant pledges that the motorcycle maker will stop efforts to relocate the operation to Kentucky.
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Advanta Corp., the Spring House small-business credit-card lender that filed for bankruptcy this month, said today that defaults rose to 34.99 percent of outstanding loans in October from 24.42 percent in the previous month.
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Michael Long has been named chief executive officer at Marlton Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Nutrisystem Inc. has pledged up to $100,000 to the American Diabetes Association's Stop Diabetes initiative.
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Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. refiner, announced today that it will permanently close its Delaware City, Del., plant because of losses brought on by the poor economy.
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Friday is looking a lot like Thursday at the gas pumps, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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Banco Santander SA, the Spanish bank that owns Philadelphia's Sovereign Bancorp Inc., has asked a federal court in Miami to dismiss a suit over its $3.2 billion in losses to Bernard Madoff's fraud, contending in papers filed Wednesday that it hadn't been linked to any wrongdoing, Bloomberg News reported.
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The stock market ended a down week with light selling as investors grew uneasy about a rising dollar and spiking demand for the safest government debt.
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Becton Dickinson and Co. said Friday it bought molecular diagnostic test maker HandyLab Inc. for $275 million.
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Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
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Car parts maker TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. said Friday that it completed a previously announced private debt offering.
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At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.
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WASHINGTON _ National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for September, 10 a.m.
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Dueling sides in the bitterly contested Delaware River deepening project took aim yesterday. Environmental groups filed two lawsuits seeking to block deepening a 102.5-mile stretch of the river by five additional feet.
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