Longtime readers may recall a Thanksgiving column years ago that featured a dinner entrée provided by Orlie, the gainfully unemployed younger brother of our farm's two hired men, Jackie and Howard.
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Case New Holland plans to lay off 128 at its combine plant in Grand Island.
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LyondellBasell Industries said Saturday Reliance Industries offered to acquire a controlling interest in the beleaguered chemical company, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Nov 21, 2009 | 11:10 am
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Russia must modernize its economy and reduce its dependence on raw materials exports.
Nov 21, 2009 | 5:15 am
Private lab tests of ground beef recalled this week by a Fairbury packer came back negative for E. coli, contradicting an Agriculture Department test that caused the recall.
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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to keep other companies from drilling there.
Nov 20, 2009 | 8:05 pm
It's smaller than the grand project envisioned a couple of years ago, but the city finally has another developer with a plan for the so-called "catalyst" block.
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Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a jury Friday he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn the French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks.
Nov 20, 2009 | 6:35 pm
Investors can't shake their fears that the economy isn't keeping up with the stock market.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:15 pm
The U.S. is finally becoming a nation of savers. Now if only we could get something for our money.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:05 pm
Range of cash grain prices paid to farmers by country elevators in the Lincoln area as of 4 p.m. Friday. Figures are averaged prices.
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J.M. Smucker Co. nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee gave a jolt to its lineup and lower commodity prices for coffee beans and other items fattened its profit margins.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:35 pm
Homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc., saw new home orders spike 26 percent from a year ago in the latest quarter as buyers raced to close deals and take advantage of a federal tax credit. But a wider-than-anticipated loss fueled by write-downs sent shares tumbling more than 15 percent Friday.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:20 pm
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:10 pm
The Associated Press has named six news editors to oversee expanded multistate territories and has assigned four interim regional photo editors as part of a restructuring of U.S. news management to ensure the continuing strength of the news cooperative's state reports.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:35 pm
A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over price.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:10 pm
Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:45 pm
A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:25 pm
In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:15 pm
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