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Obama on CEO bonuses: He doesn't 'begrudge' wealth
By News on Feb 10, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Less than a month after calling bank executives' pay "obscene," President Barack Obama is declining to criticize bonuses received by two top Wall Street chief executives, saying he doesn't "begrudge people success or wealth."...Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76
By News on Feb 10, 2010
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DALLAS (AP) -- Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," has died. He was 76....Debt woes in Europe could infect U.S.recovery
By News on Feb 10, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States, which led the world into recession, may now see its fragile recovery stifled by events across the globe....Obama, black leaders focus on economic hard times
By News on Feb 10, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and three prominent African-American leaders grappled Wednesday with how to improve economic opportunities for blacks, whose joblessness looms well above the national average and is nearly twice that of whites....PROMISES, PROMISES: Jobs bill won't add many jobs
By News on Feb 10, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- It sounds great: A big jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed victory and please Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But there's a problem: It won't actually create many jobs....