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Miami flights to double up
Personal trainer Lois Newberry's four-day visit to Miami for a fitness competition got off on the right foot. The South Windermere resident felt she scored a great deal on the airfare, paying $215 for the round-trip ticket within a week of her departure.
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Ullman: Why the recession is good
Chief says chain will appeal to now frugal consumers
NEW YORK -- This holiday season, J.C. Penney chairman and chief executive officer Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle key rivals such as Macy's.
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Foreclosures: Lost jobs adding to tally
Even people with good credit starting to default
WASHINGTON -- The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery.
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Foul weather rains on Nestle's pumpkin harvest this year
PORTLAND, Ore. -- The holidays might not be so sweet this year. Nestle, which sells nearly all of the canned pumpkin in the United States, says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.
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A Few Minutes With ... Billy Conyers
Car veteran heads new Hoover Pre-Owned Supercenter west of the Ashley
Customers this Halloween didn’t spirit away vehicles from the used car outlet at 2250 Savannah Highway, but they came close. Try autos for $5. A marketing move, Hoover Pre-Owned Supercenter attracted large crowds to the Oct. 31 event, where four motorists got the deals of a lifetime. Yet the dealership had another reason for the promotion: it’s a tough economy in the Charleston area and elsewhere, and this was a way for an established family-run business to lend a hand.
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Car Talk
How to avoid major auto offense – clutch homicide
Q. A friend of mine at work and I have a disagreement regarding using the clutch on a standard-shift car. He says that keeping the clutch pressed in will wear out the throw-out bearing, and I say it won’t.
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SC jobless rate eclipses 12 percent
South Carolina's jobless rate climbed nearly half a point in October to a record-tying 12.1 percent, as the number of out-of-work residents rose by more than 9,700, the state Employment Security Commission said today.
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Boeing 787 could take test flight Dec. 22
A news service is reporting that Boeing Co. is planning to take its long-delayed 787 Dreamliner passenger jet on its inaugural test flight around Dec. 22.
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Boeing a last-minute council topic
Lawyer says agenda update violated Freedom of Information Act
Eager elected officials statewide have acted with lightning speed to please Boeing Co., but Charleston County Council may have breached a threshold of transparency when it took up the company's economic incentive package this week.
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SPA hires firm to sell tract
Daniel Island property had been eyed for 'Global Gateway' terminal
The State Ports Authority has hired a Columbia real estate firm to help it sell nearly 500 acres on Daniel Island that the agency once planned to develop into a major shipping terminal.
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Former chairman Stern regains post
The S.C. State Ports Authority board has unanimously elected Bill Stern to succeed outgoing chairman David Posek of Greenville for a two-year term that begins in January. Stern has been with the SPA board since 2002. He is owner and president of Columbia-based Stern & Stern and Associ...
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Home-building industry holding back recovery
It will take a while'
WASHINGTON -- The budding economic recovery isn't getting much help from the home-building industry, which normally creates jobs and drives growth when a recession ends.
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Clothing store hanging around for a while
Goga women's clothing store at 377 King St., which was slated to close last weekend, will be open a bit longer.
The shop, owned by former "Project Runway" reality show contestant Gordana Gehlhausen, received a late shipment of clothing on Monday.
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