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Airlines gave a big lift to the order book for the next generation Airbus A350 today, announcing contracts for 114 of the planes on the first day of the Paris Air Show.
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Anyone who has sweated or sworn while struggling to install a child safety seat understands why Debbi Baer gets desperate phone calls. She is one of roughly 30,000 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-certified child passenger safety technicians.
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ChoicePoint Inc. settled with 43 states and the District of Columbia over accusations it failed to adequately secure consumers' personal information related to a breach of its database it disclosed in 2005. 4:15 p.m.
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In an attempt to increase ridership, Amtrak is reaching back to the luxurious train journeys of the past.
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The chemical that sparked a nationwide recall of imported pet food has been found in fish and livestock food manufactured in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday.
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table-shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects. The machines, which Microsoft debuted yesterday at a technology conference in Carlsbad, Calif.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The wave of airline bankruptcies that began after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks ends today when Northwest Airlines Corp. finishes its reorganization.
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China specialists are not convinced new steps taken by the country in response to international concerns over tainted food and drug exports will allay those concerns.
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Prospects for redeveloping the area north of Massachusetts Avenue Northeast, or "NoMa," are taking a step forward with Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's order endorsing a business-improvement district for the area.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Four current and former partners of the giant accounting firm Ernst & Young were charged yesterday with fraud and other crimes relating to tax shelters that helped the wealthy escape taxes on incomes exceeding $10 million.
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High above the District's skyline, construction cranes are steadily changing the landscape of the nation's capital.
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