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Salvadorans See Promise in Candidate
Categorie : Business NewsFor most of his life, Luis Reyes has had a dread of public speaking and a distrust of left-wing politicians from his native El Salvador. ...
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Sun Jun 2008
Lessons of Arlington's Urban Development Needn't Be Just History
Categorie : Business NewsThe phenomenal metamorphosis of Arlington County's Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, among the region's most dramatic real estate transformations, teaches a timely lesson: Successful urban revitalization requires long-range planning and long-range public investment that sparks private investment. ...
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Dow closes below 12,000 on bank jitters, oil prices
Categorie : Business NewsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell sharply on Friday with the Dow closing below 12,000 for the first time since mid-March as rising oil prices and warnings of more mortgage-related write-downs at banks reignited investor fears of worse to come. ...
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White House threatens veto of foreclosure rescue
Categorie : Business NewsWASHINGTON -- A broad bipartisan coalition supporting a massive foreclosure rescue beat back GOP efforts to gut it Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and quashing a bid to make it victim to revelations about two senators' VIP mortgages. ...
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Rates on 30-year mortgages jump to 6.42 percent
Categorie : Business NewsWASHINGTON -- Rates on 30-year mortgages kept surging this week, rising to the highest level in nearly nine months, reflecting more concerns about what the Federal Reserve will do to combat a growing inflation threat. ...
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D.C. Region's Foreclosure Rate Soars
Categorie : Business NewsThe Washington region now has one of the fastest-growing foreclosure rates in the nation, as 15,613 homes went into foreclosure during the one-year period ending in February, an analysis to be released today has found. ...
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Maryland's Tip for Vacationers: Everything You Need Is Right Here
Categorie : Business NewsWith $4-a-gallon gas prices and airline fuel surcharges casting a chill over summer travel plans, local and state tourism promoters are setting their sights decidedly closer to home. ...
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Montgomery Lifts Advisory on Water
Categorie : Business NewsAn advisory to boil drinking water that had covered large sections of Montgomery County was lifted last night after two rounds of tests found that a rupture in a four-foot water main did not result in contamination. ...
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Gas Prices Energizing Va. Senate Race
Categorie : Business NewsRICHMOND, June 18 -- Senate candidate Mark R. Warner said Wednesday that the U.S. government needs to get tougher with OPEC and better regulate investors speculating in the oil market to drive down gas prices. ...
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Board Ponders Purchase of Merrifield Office Building
Categorie : Business NewsFairfax County school officials are proposing to spend $52 million to buy a 275,000-square-foot office building in the Merrifield area to continue consolidating the headquarters of the region's largest school system. ...
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Leggett's Pick for WSSC Faces Council's Scrutiny
Categorie : Business NewsAs thousands of Montgomery County residents were still reeling from disruptions in water service this week, council members were vetting Democratic County Executive Isiah Leggett's latest pick to serve on the commission that oversees water and sewer delivery for 1.8 million customers in Montgomery.. ...
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In Chevy Chase, Pitching Sunshine As Clean, Cheap Energy Resource
Categorie : Business NewsSometimes when Ketch Ryan is working in her Chevy Chase garden, she pauses to look at a contraption mounted on the side of her house. It is a solar energy converter that displays how much her personal carbon footprint is shrinking each day. ...
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College Park Grieves Over Death of Pathbreaking Ex-Mayor Lomax
Categorie : Business NewsCollege Park residents are mourning the death of Dervey Lomax , 84, on June 8. Lomax, a 27-year city council member, served as mayor from 1973 to 1975. He was the first and only black leader of the city. ...
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National Harbor's 'Mini-City' Takes Shape
Categorie : Business NewsVisitors stroll along the pier, some stopping to take a water taxi to Alexandria or Georgetown. Art lovers gaze at pieces in two galleries. And near the plaza, children climb over the "Awakening," the massive sculpture that was uprooted from its longtime home in Hains Port. ...
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