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POPSFries With That? Another person inconvenienced, another lawsuit. Hot coffee isn't the only vehicle through which people try to get their paws on McDonald's cash.
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POPSAirlines Keep Cutting Travel gets even tougher -a major layover hub between the east and west coasts is cutting back on flights.
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POPSTwins Games a Real Gas Major League Baseball is on the gas bandwagon. The Minnesota Twins are promoting discounted tickets to induce fans to drive out to the park on $4 a gallon gasoline.
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POPSDenver Dems Falling Short Think your mid-size city can grow by showcasing itself with a national event? It's not easy, as Denver's financial struggles for the upcoming Democratic convention show.
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POPSGPS 2.0 Get ready for the next generation of Global Positioning Systems to fuel the next wave of growth - they'll come complete with traffic conditions and weather.
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POPSAirline Service on the Descent Airline customer service has passengers seeing red, according to the University of Michigan's latest customer satisfaction survey. But, say some, when you shop on price alone, as so many fliers do, what do you expect?
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POPSDodging Art Are the wealthy completely immune from the slowing economy? Perhaps not - given how slowly some expensive art is moving at Christie's and Sotheby's.
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POPSWrigley Sale Close? Sam Zell, the chief of Tribune Co., which owns baseball's Cubs, may be close to a deal to sell Wrigley Field to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which claims it can raise private money for renovations. Selling off the ballpark would pave the way to sell the team (Zell has said he wants separate deals for the stadium and team). On a separate note, the Tribune reports that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, thought to be a long shot candidate to buy the Cubs, will be taking in tonight's game against the Brewers.
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POPSComing Attractions at Blockbuster A new Blockbuster, coming soon to a store near you? Struggling to keep up with Netflix, Blockbuster is experimenting with concept store in its home base of Dallas, offering cappuccino, kids games and video shooting space.
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POPSPropping Up the Local Economy With computers replacing open outcry systems for those trading on the CBOE, a handul of anonymous "prop shops" are largely controlling Chicago's markets.
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POPSHollywood Ages Well Movie budget cutbacks don't have to mean audience losses. Hollywood is finding that cheaper, smarter films for the boomer set can be quite profitable.
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POPSWindy City Olympics? New York may have lost out on the 2012 summer games. But that isn't stopping Chicago from going after it in 2016. Rock star icons Michael Jordan and Barack Obama will be rolled out to make the second city's pitch. No word yet on Oprah.
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POPSCoke's Water Purchase Could Pay Off Coca-Cola paid a hefty $4.1 billion for relatively unknown enhanced water company Glaceau, the maker of Vitaminwater. But with sales of carbonated drinks falling for a third straight year, the company's massive marketing and distribution systems could bring big dividends from Glaceau.
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POPSSwaping Out Seat Licenses The secondary market for event tickets has been exploding for awhile now, thanks to online services like StubHub. Nest in line are personal seat licenses - where teams charge fans for the right to own a seat for a period of time. A Houston accountant is cashing in with a service allowing fans to trade these licenses.
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POPSNo Breaks on Summer Travel Planning to fly for a summer vacation this year? Expect to pay more. Airlines looking to squeeze every dollar they can are cutting back on flights and raising fares.
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POPSDoes Free Content Pay? Traditional media isn't going away. But the big outlets are still grappling with the issue of advertising vs. subscription fees for milking online revenue.
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POPSRFID Getting a Workout It's been slow going to find breakthroughs for RFID technology, but gyms and airports are giving it a push.
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POPSWhat Price Clean Fuel? How expensive would it be to cool down global warming? Views among major utilities differ, usually depending on how much clean fuel they already burn.
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POPSQwest Tries to Woo Skeptical Analysts The Denver-based telecom is still saddled with big debt from the Naccio years. Chief exec Ed Mueller comes to Wall Street to sell a tough audience on the company's long term plan
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POPSLegal Hurdle for Marins Stadium? Miami-Dade County officials seem close to approving a new ballpark for the Florida Marlins, partly funded by public money. Sports law expert Marc Edelman posits on a legal blog that the agreement might well violate state law. If so, it's a law that's not heavily enforced, given the other sports venues in Florida that have been subsidized with public money.
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POPSSmoking Patrol Gets Tougher For business travelers prone to sneaking an occasional smoke in the hotel room, beware. Now hotels are motivating the staff to nab you.
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POPSWant the Tax Rebate? Better File Not all Americans are required to file tax returns. But the IRS is spreading the word that to qualify for one of the rebate checks due out later this year, you need to file.
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POPSBuffet to Banks: You Deserve This Billionaire Warren Buffet takes U.S. banks to task for packaging risky mortgages into complex packages and selling them off, saying they're now getting their just desserts for ignoring the risks for too long.
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POPSSocial Networking Goes Niche There are big social networking sites, and there are chat rooms and blogs catering to people with specifc interests. Are the two forces about to meet?
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POPSBeware Those Text Messages Any unfamiliar text messages on your cell phone lately? You may have been slammed into a service you didn't ask for, with a bump in your bill.
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POPSForeclosure Fraud Real estate fraud abounds. First came the get rich quick schemes, and now a shift to "helping homeowners avoid foreclosure."
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POPSHooking Call Girls Out of Phoenix Headed to Phoenix for the Super Bowl? Stay away from those "adult" ads.In addition to the estimated $5 million or so that host cities spend on spruce up projects and security, there's also the matter of using law enforcement resources to crack down on one of the game's traditional sub-industries - prostitution.
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POPSFidelity Reopens Magellan Fidelity Investments' huge Magellan fund, the one that showcased Peter Lynch's stock picking prowess in the 1980s, putting the company on the road to mutual fund dominance in the process, is opening up to new investors after a 10-year hiatus.
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POPSMassachusetts Probes Merrill Lynch Wall Street banks are not only feeling the heat from federal regulators probing subprime mortgage investments sold to clients, but now the states are predictably getting in on the act. Will this Massachussets investigation into Merrill Lynch's dealings with one of its cities be just the tip of the iceburg?
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POPSTrump: Don't Question Me Donald Trump is pitching money making advice from real estate foreclosures, and bullying media types who dare question his tactics.
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POPSSetting the Gift Giving Standards When it comes to holiday shopping, how to decide between personilized presents and gigt cards? Teenages are stting the etiquette standards, according to a recent study.
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POPSNo More Cash for Baseball Awarda Starting in 2013, the baseball writers will disqualify for post season awards any player that has a bonus clause in his contract for getting votes. That should take care of any appearance of impropriety - who's to say a writer can't be bribed into voting for a player? But it also makes pay for performance tougher. And with teams not required to disclose contract terms, could the new policy ever really be enforced?
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