Capital One Financial Corp. has struck a deal to buy Maryland regional bank Chevy Chase Bank for $520 million in cash and stock, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In November, McLean, Va.-based Capital One received an investment of about...
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59pm Tuesday 2nd December 2008 All of the celebrities broke down in tears after receiving letters from home...Get Me Out Of Here!' contestants were stunned to be given the personal notes and all became overwhelmed by the sentiments of the...
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U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings soared 40% in October as home values sank and individual debts ballooned, the American Bankruptcy Institute said Tuesday. Consumers filed 106,266 bankruptcies in October, up 40% from a year ago and up 20% from September.
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Democrat Barack Obama, who is on track to spend a record $230 million on television advertising, will punctuate his broadcast strategy Wednesday with prime-time commercials on CBS, NBC and Fox. The three 30-minute ads, which cost Obama nearly $1 million...
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Johnson, 48, formerly was named the company's CFO on Nov. 24. He formerly was chief financial officer at Hartford Financial Services Group. Fannie Mae said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday that Johnson's salary will consist of the...
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Sunrise Senior Living Inc. posted its worst loss in 8 years last quarter as the costs of cost-cutting overtook a modest gain in revenue. Mclean-based Sunrise announced Friday that its net loss for the third quarter was $68.7 million, or...
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Her first child (with singer Benjamin Brewer, her fiancé) is due in February. And though the rapper/musician jokes that she'll have to wear caftans if she gets any bigger, she's not letting the impending birth slow her down. M.I.A., 31,...
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So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem. At 3 cents a page, his tests would cost more than $500...
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Even though the last week of the presidential race lies ahead, there's already a winner: late-night comedy skits spread virally on the Web. Hosts such as David Letterman and programs including Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show are profitably...
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Capital Automotive LLC (the "Company"), the nation's leading specialty finance company for automotive retail real estate, today announced that its Board of Managers has declared a dividend for the period commencing August 1, 2008 and ending October 31, 2008 of...
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