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House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
(Reuters)
Reuters - The House of Representatives passed
a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White
House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures
aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the
Great Depression.
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Amazon Q2 net profit doubles, sales up 41 percent
(Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday
quarterly net income doubled on a 41 percent rise in revenue,
helped by higher operating profit margins.
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Fed says price pressures gain, growth slackens
(Reuters)
Reuters - The United States faced increasing
inflationary pressures in recent weeks amid slowing economic
growth, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, as it described
conditions in some areas as "grim," "morose" or "bleak."
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Pulte Homes second-quarter loss narrows
(Reuters)
Reuters - Pulte Homes Inc posted a
smaller quarterly loss on Wednesday, but said buyer confidence
remained shaky.
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Wall Street rises on oil drop, housing plan optimism
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stocks rose on Wednesday as financial
shares climbed on optimism about a rescue plan for mortgage
finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and as the price
of oil fell.
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Waiters pick up part of LongHorn's labor costs
(AP)
AP - With the cost of everything from air conditioning to whipped cream rising, many restaurants have been raising prices. LongHorn Steakhouse is passing on part of the tab to its servers.
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Takeoff Live 1.0 |
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Introducing Takeoff Live - the full featured electronic takeoff software from eJobCost. With this amazing tool you can use virtually any digital file for your quantity surveys and calculate lengths, areas, counts, and depths all with your mouse.Got a circular slab? No problem! Just trace around the arc of the circle and presto!...an area and perimeter a... |
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Teroid Levels Meter 2.0 |
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Teroid Levels Meter emulates the LED or LCD meters commonly used on electronic or electrical equipment to display numerical information. It can display any number of values using number of segments, axis lines, grid lines and index marks can be displayed, value segments can originate from any of the control's four sides and all colors can be set individua... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Dynamic Info Screen 8.1.0 |
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Create an info display on a PC showing scenes made of media objects assembled in different layouts. Objects include a slide show, media player, three forms of rss/text feed, flash content, web/html page, tv tuner, live camera and static text label. |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Address Book Recovery by DiskInternals 1.0 |
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DiskInternals Address Book Recovery scans your entire hard drive looking for address book contacts in the same way as modern anti-viruses scan your drives for viruses. It uses a database of signatures defining the beginning and the end of each file.No matter how serious your problem with Windows Address Book is, DiskInternals Address Book Recovery is your... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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FBReader 0.8.6 |
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FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones, PepperPad 3, IRex iLiad, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop computers. It supports several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion text)... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Linux] |
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Alive Task Manager 1.7.2.31 |
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Alive Task Manager is a genuine electronic task scheduler, which can be used to create new tasks, prepare a personal time-table, remind about particular events, create repeated tasks, etc.Alive Task Manager supports a tree-type structure of the task list, different display layouts, and an efficient means of search, printout, export/import and synchronizat... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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C-Photo Recovery 2.12 |
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Recover deleted pictures and restore corrupted photographs with C-photo Recovery. Power Search technology guarantees the best results by scanning your entire hard drive or memory card for signatures that mark the beginning and end of digital pictures, and matching the result scan with file system records. All popular image formats are supported. Your pict... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Altova Authentic 2008 |
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Altova Authentic 2008 is a FREE content editor that allows business users to view and edit data in XML documents and relational databases without being exposed to the underlying technology.They simply fill in electronic forms using the word processor style interface and their content or query is instantly processed. Authentic 2008 is ideally suited as the... |
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Altova Authentic 2007 |
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Altova Authentic 2007 is a FREE XML and database content editor that allows non-technical business users to view and edit data in XML documents and relational databases without being exposed to the underlying technology. They simply fill in electronic forms using the word-processor style WYSIWYG interface, and their content or query is automatically writt... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Bells 3.01.61 |
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Bells & Whistles for Outlook helps users to quickly reply to emails by automatically inserting personalized email reply greetings, email templates, signatures or even side email notes. During a one-time configuration process, users can easily pre-define the reply message format or specify email addresses for the automatic CC, BCC, Forward or Reply-To feat... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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