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Darden customers to create their own seafood feast
Nation's Restaurant News | 6 days 16 hours 28 minutes ago
Orlando, Fla. ( Nov. 16, 2009 ) Darden Restaurants has some new promotions at two of its chains.

Earmarks sponsored by and campaign contributions to Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 17 hours 32 minutes ago
Hawaii companies that would benefit from earmarks sponsored by U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye , D-Hawaii, that are in the Senate version of the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations measure. The firms' executives and other employees have contributed to Inouye's campaign committees since 1997.

Schering posts boceprevir trial data, including results for patients not helped by other drugs
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 21 hours 37 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Schering-Plough Corp. said its experimental hepatitis C drug boceprevir helped eliminate the virus in about half of patients who did not respond to standard treatments.

Bouquets That Bear Fruit
New York Times, The | 15 days 9 hours 40 minutes ago
I WAS born in Pakistan and came to the United States in 1981, when I was 11. My grandfather owned a farm in Pakistan and we had been fairly well-to-do. We started at the bottom when we came here. My father found a job as a machinist during the day and worked at McDonald’s and Burger King at night.

Microsoft Turns on a Dime to Beat Back Google Apps
E-Commerce Times | 19 days 12 hours 38 minutes ago
Is a price war for email cloud offerings on the horizon? Although Microsoft has just taken the plunge into Google's $5 bargain basement, others have already set their prices even lower for comparable services -- e.g., IBM at $3, Rackspace at just $1. Microsoft's sudden decision doesn't bode well for its partners, though, who may feel as though Redmond has left them out in the cold.

South Dakota Public Utilities Commission to hold public hearing on Keystone XL pipeline
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 19 days 17 hours 57 minutes ago
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The Public Utilities Commission gets comments from the public Tuesday evening in Pierre on the $920 million, 313-mile stretch of the Keystone XL pipeline that TransCanada Keystone plans to build across western and south central South Dakota .

Consumers Energy ordered to refund Mich. customers money 6 months after raising electric bills
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 11 hours 29 minutes ago
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Consumers Energy has been ordered to give electric customers a partial refund six months after Michigan's second-biggest utility was allowed to increase power bills.

Merck: FDA won't accept its application for combo cholesterol pill including Pfizer's Lipitor
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 15 hours 38 minutes ago
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators won't accept drugmaker Merck 's application for a new combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer 's Lipitor , the world's top-selling drug.

Berkshire Hathaway is buying Burlington Northern in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 19 days 20 hours 57 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway says it has agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion.

Berkshire Hathaway board OKs 50-for-1 split of Class B common shares; holder vote needed
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 19 days 20 hours 32 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is sending a plan to split the iconic company's Class B shares to a shareholder vote.

Moody's raises Ford credit ratings citing improved product lineup, cost improvements
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 14 hours 25 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Moody's Investors Service on Monday raised its corporate family rating for Ford Motor Co. to "B3" from "Caa1," citing the progress the automaker has made toward improving its product portfolio and cost structure while preserving its cash reserves.

BNY Mellon, US Bancorp opt out of program extending FDIC insurance for accounts over $250,000
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 9 hours 43 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Two banks which have repaid their bailout funds said Monday they no longer need to take advantage of a special program that offers government insurance on certain deposits, like checking account funds, over $250,000.

South Dakota regulatory commission begins hearing on Keystone XL crude oil pipeline
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 10 hours 52 minutes ago
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A crude oil pipeline that TransCanada Keystone wants to build across western South Dakota would face medical, housing and supply challenges because the areas it would run through are remote and sparsely populated, a company official said Monday.

Darden Restaurants elects new board member
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 12 hours 7 minutes ago
Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has elected Victoria D. Harker, executive vice president and chief financial officer of The AES Corporation , to its board of directors effective today.

Pull the plug on Ares
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 14 hours 25 minutes ago
W ednesday's launch of the test vehicle for NASA's Ares I rocket was an impressive sight. More than 30 stories high, the thin white rocket shot off the launch pad like an arrow piercing the sky above Kennedy Space Center .