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As was previously announced, the highly popular, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" will open the 2006-07 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series with a three-week run at the Benedum Center.
The remaining shows in the seven-production season prove equally impressive, a balance of four musicals, both new and classical, small and large; an intr...
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UBS AG is out of the Miami market, confirmed spokesman Peter Casey. So is GE Commercial Finance. Philadelphia-based private real estate investment firm AMC Delancey is still interested in Florida. Just not, for the time being, South Florida.
"We are seeing lenders overall pulling the plug," said Dan Kodsi, president ...
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Richard Epstein discusses the NSA's wiretapping program on CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight. February 13, 2006.
Brandon Arnold is director of government affairs at the Cato Institute.
e don’t much like to have to defend giant oil companies. But a deal is a deal.
Some members of Congress are chafing that some oil and gas from deep waters off the Gulf Coast should yield a royalty to the government like all other hydrocarbons from federal lands and waters, in spite of a 1996 law that called for leases in that area from 1996 through 2000 to be royalty-free. Wells dri...
Popular opinion to the contrary, the S&P 500 stock index is not an unmanaged index of stocks.
It's managed by a group of folks at McGraw-Hill, the publishing company that owns Standard & Poor's. And it seems that the changes to the index made by these publishing money managers actually have a negative impact on both the return and the volatility of the index.
A recent study of the...
However, unless we bake it ourselves, it is hard to come by a loaf of bread these days delicious enough to stir the senses. We are offered spongy, plasticised, tasteless breads, pre-sliced, doctored with nutrients and preservatives, and with about as much gastronomic importance as cotton wool."
These words were written back in the early '70s and they are just as relevant today as was the...
Militants launched a wave of attacks across Nigeria's troubled delta region Saturday, blowing up oil installations and seizing nine foreigners, including three Americans. The violence cut the West African nation's crude oil exports by 20 percent.
A fire was quickly put out on a Royal Dutch Shell platform that loads the company's tankers in the western delta, but the Forcados terminal'...
Gas station owners in many parts of the United States are buying fuel at some of the lowest prices they've seen in a year, yet many are padding their bottom lines rather than passing along all the savings to motorists, industry figures show.
Nationwide, the profit margin on a gallon of gasoline has widened since the start of the year and now is 20.7 cents a gallon - almost double the his...
RadioShack Corp.'s troubles deepened Friday, as the electronics retailer said fourth-quarter earnings dropped 62 percent and announced it would close 400 to 700 stores and two distribution centers. Its shares tumbled 8 percent, after sinking at midday to a threeyear low. The company said it could not project the number of job cuts until it identifies all the affected stores. RadioShack said th...
As its latest favor to Western consumers, Opec plans to increase refinery capacity in the Persian Gulf by 60 percent over the next decade. If we want to lower oil prices, said Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi just a few days ago, "Build refineries, build refineries, build them right now!"
Naimi reminds me of Tom Lehrer's Old Dope Peddlar, spreading joy wherever he goes- and building