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Mitt Romney's Wawa Gaffe: Is He Out Of Touch? [VIDEO]

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was blown away by the sandwiches at WaWas, repeatedly mispronouncing the Pennsylvania-based supermarket chain's name as he recounted his first time visiting a WaWa during a campaign stop in Cornwall, Pa. Is the former Massachusetts governor out of touch?
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Should Germany Leave The Euro And Reissue Deutsche Mark?

A euro-area breakup might appear to be inevitable at this point. But, instead of Greece being pushed out the door, analysts say an outside-the-box solution to the euro zone's sovereign-debt problem would be for Germany to voluntarily withdraw from the euro and reinstall the Deutsche mark.
Iain Duncan Smith

Long-Term Unemployment, Increasing Poverty Plague UK

A tight squeeze on salaries of full-time employees, along with spending cuts and burgeoning levels of part-time employment and long-term unemployment, offsets the decline in overall unemployment, leading to a rise in the number of poor Britons.
AMR and US Air

American Airlines-US Airways Merger: Who Wins, Who Loses?

US Airways has been very publicly circling AMR Corp., the bankrupt parent of American Airlines. Yet industry experts expressed concerns that, while a potential merger would be a boon to the labor unions, the flying public would end up footing the bill.
Dinner With Barack

Dinner with Barack: Hardly a Liberal Experience

Dinner with Barack -- for the liberal Democrat, few things sound better than free food with their fearless leader. Four prize dinners with the Great One -- awarded by drawing -- have come and gone; but have no fear, Dinner with Barack V is here.
A drilling rig in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas

Natural Gas Industry To Create 1.5M Jobs By 2015: IHS

The U.S. natural gas industry will create 1.5 million jobs by 2015, in large part because of the surge in production from unconventional shale beds that require hydraulic fracturing, according to an IHS study released Wednesday.
Supermarket Chain

FDI In Retail: Will It Boost India's Economy Or Leave Millions Jobless?

Indian retail sector, which is one of the fastest growing in the world, is under immense pressure to allow the Foreign Direct Investment. With multi-national retail giants like Wal-Mart and CarreFour and foreign investors lobbying the government to throw open the retail sector, the government has made several futile attempts in the past two years to allow FDI in retail.

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