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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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Fine Uninstall 1.0 |
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Quick, powerful and easy applications uninstaller. Fine Uninstall provides an alternate interface for the Windows Add/Remove software dialog. It's a fast, secure and convenient way to remove unneeded applications and improve your computer efficiency. You can uninstall both shown and hidden software and remove hidden entries as well.Features:Standard "Wind... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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IE Internet Security 7.1 |
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IE Internet Security is a password-protected Internet security utility that customizes different features of the Internet Explorer Web browser. It allows you to disable abilities to change your web browser settings, restrict access to certain tabs of Internet Options dialog box, as well as specific settings from each tab.It lets you disable certain menu i... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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LinkCollector Portable Edition 1.0 |
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LinkCollector Portable Edition is a bookmark manager that supports all major browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, IExplorer. The program allows you to synchronize bookmarks between different browsers and computers and it can be stored on a USB disk. Besides, it neither saves anything to system folders nor writes any data to the Windows registry.Its nice, int... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MsConfig Cleanup Utility 1.0 |
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Msconfig (Microsoft System Configuration Utility) is a small tool included with most Windows Operating Systems which allows you to enable or disable auto-start Programs and Services. When you type Msconfig into the Run box it opens the program allowing you to stop unnecessary programs from always starting with Windows.However it does not allow you to com... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Stereo Tool for Winamp 2.05 |
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Stereo Tool is a Winamp plugin with which many aspects of sound can be tweaked.
It contains a singleband compressor, an 8-band multiband compressor, a lowpass filter and a powerful stereo image manipulator.
The compressors are especially designed to reduce common volume compression artifacts like pumping.They can be used to make the playback volume ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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MyToolkit 2.0.1.1 |
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MyToolkit is a simple program to:
- Add/remove theme support to/from programs that have not it. For example, if you add theme support to "...System32mmc.exe" and then you open your "Computer Management" console, it will look full-skinned. Note that some old programs may fail to start or display graphical errors when skinned; if this occurs you can remo... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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PCMesh Internet Cleanup 4.1.1 |
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PCMesh Internet Cleanup is a utility to remove user activity tracks and to clean the hard disk from junk files.Windows logs user activity in several locations of which the most important ones are:index.dat files which log user's Internet activity such as the addresses of visited websites, a copy of those sites and received cookies.UserAssist registry key ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Perfect Skin Photo 1 |
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Perfect Skin Photo TM is software that loads in your photos and AUTOMATICALLY removes ...
+ ACNE
+ WRINKLES
+ CELLULITE
+ SNOTTY NOSES
+ FINE FACIAL HAIR
+ and more.
It does this while retaining a photo-realistic image. In fact it removes any unwanted skin imperfections that you don't like, if the unwanted skin feature is less pronounced than th... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Ideal DVD Copy 3.0 |
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Ideal DVD Copy is an efficient and simple tool for you to copy any DVD movie to blank DVD or hard disk, even if you are a novice user. It can copy any DVD without any loss of quality or shrink DVD9 to fit on a 4.7GB disc. It can aslo copy main movie or split DVD9 to 2 4.7GB discs. You can enjoy the copies anytime without worrying about your original DVD ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Startup Guru 2.03 |
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Startup Guru will manage the programs that load on your Windows computer each time it starts. You can add, remove or temporarily disable any item. Great for removing adware/spyware or anything else that is slowing down your ability to get started using your computer! The ability to schedule startup items is another handy feature. Many programs don't need ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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