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Nissan to mass market U.S. made electric cars

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. confirmed that it will build electric vehicles in the United States on a mass scale, beginning in 2011 or 2012 just ahead of an announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy granted a $1.6 billion loan to the automaker to produce electric cars and battery packs at its manufacturing complex in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Ford, Nissan to receive U.S. technology loans

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Ford Motor Co and Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd will receive nearly $8 billion combined in U.S. government loans to spur development of fuel efficient vehicles, the U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday.
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Apple CEO Jobs spotted leaving campus

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs showed up for work on Monday and was spotted leaving the main corporate campus in Cupertino, California, a Reuters witness said.
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Threats, violence seen eroding U.S. abortion rights

The patients are gone and so are the protesters. Once the site of daily anti-abortion picketing, the Kansas clinic run by murdered doctor George Tiller is busy only with workers shutting down the facility.
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U.S. bankruptcies highest since 2005

U.S. bankruptcy filings rose in the first quarter to the highest since 2005, government data show, as rising unemployment, falling housing prices and tight credit made it harder for people to hold off their creditors.
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Nissan, Seattle Partner to Promote Electric Car Infrastructure

Nissan North America on Tuesday announced a partnership with the City of Seattle on Wednesday to promote the development of electric car infrastructure, as it plans similar promotions in other cities and regions ahead of its own car launch in 2010.
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Cost cuts help Whirlpool post surprise profit

Whirlpool Corp reported a surprise quarterly profit on Monday as cost-cutting efforts helped the world's biggest appliance maker weather a slump in global sales, and it backed its 2009 profit forecast.
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Tennessee Gov Test-drives Nissan electric car

Gov. Phil Bredesen from Tennessee made a test-drive of Nissan's electric car on Wednesday at the automaker's headquarters in Franklin, a suburb in Nashville urging the construction of chargins stations.
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Volcker says economy recovery a long slog

Paul Volcker, senior economic adviser to President Barack Obama, said on Saturday that the U.S. economic recovery will be a long slog but that the rate of decline is going to slow.
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Volcker sees recovery as long slog

Paul Volcker, senior economic adviser to President Barack Obama, said on Saturday that the U.S. economic recovery will be a long slog but that the rate of decline should slow.
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Alcoa shares rise after loss

Shares of Alcoa Inc rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday, as some analysts applauded the aluminum maker's cost cuts and results at its engineered products unit.
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Best Breakfasts in Bed

Awakening to the sounds of rustling leaves and distant ocean surf, you stretch out in bed, enjoying your first few moments of the day. Around you, your treehouse suite at California’s Post Ranch Inn—set on stilts among branches high above the Pacific coastline—seems to bend and stretch, too.
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The latest U.S. stocks rally may have momentum

The long-awaited U.S. government plan to rid banks of money-losing assets has injected some desperately needed optimism into Wall Street after stocks hit 12-year lows earlier this month.
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Elvis memorabilia offered in online auction

Elvis Presley memorabilia including a performance jumpsuit and a grand piano he played at Graceland went on auction on Monday in a demonstration of his commercial appeal 31 years since the King left the building.

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