08/25/11
Marketplace for August 25, 2011
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Marketplace for August 25, 2011
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Will pledge to withhold campaign donations work?
Maggie Wilderotter, CEO of Frontier Communications, discusses why she supports a movement among business leaders to halt campaign contributions to Washington lawmakers.
5
Arctic rush freezes out enviros
Environmental concerns fall by the wayside as nations begin planning Arctic developments
5
What Warren Buffett wants...
The famed investor wanted a piece of Bank of America after its stock had been beaten down. And Bank of America eventually decided it could use an investment -- $5 billion -- from Buffett.
2
This downturn economy is different from the rest
Our current economic troubles have often been compared to those of the past, like the Depression of the 1930s. But how is it different?
30
Making professors more productive
The University of Texas has a plan to get more out of its faculty
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