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Michael Hiltzik: Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education

11 April 2012
Posted in News - Business

Tuition increases are threatening to place a University of California education out of the reach of working-class and middle-class students.
The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908,...

Brian Dunn resigns as Best Buy CEO amid personal conduct probe

10 April 2012
Posted in News - Business

MINNEAPOLIS — An investigation into personal misconduct led to the sudden resignation of Best Buy Co. Chief Executive Brian Dunn, the electronics retailer acknowledged Tuesday.

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Sony doubles loss forecast to worst ever

10 April 2012
Posted in News - Business

Sony Corp. more than doubled its projected annual loss to $6.4 billion, its worst ever, because of a massive tax charge.

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Dow closes down more than 200 points

10 April 2012
Posted in News - Business

The stock market extended its longest and deepest slump of the year Tuesday, caught between a recurring nightmare of European debt and the beginning of uncertain corporate earnings reports at home.

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