MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Sam's Club warehouse chain has pulled abrand of ground beef patties from its shelves nationwide after fourchildren who ate the food, produced by Cargill Inc., developed E.coli illness.
SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 5) - Overwhelmed by e-mail? Some professionals are fighting back by declaring e-mail-free Fridays — or by deleting their entire in-box.
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(Oct. 5) - Barclays on Friday formally conceded defeat in the six-month battle for ABN Amro, but its chief executive insisted the UK banking group had “plenty of fuel in our tanks”.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Job creation in the U.S. picked up inSeptember but not enough to stop the unemployment rate from risingto 4.7 percent, the highest in just over a year.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closingits business, six days after it was forced to issue thesecond-largest beef recall in U.S. history.