UPDATE 1-NY Gov targets clean energy, health despite deficit - Reuters

NEW YORK, Jan 7 (Reuters) - New York state should fight obesity, help more residents get health insurance and revive the upstate economy with a research consortium for hybrid car batteries and energy storage, Governor David Paterson proposed on ...

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News Of The Day - New York Daily News

Barack Obama said the country is looking at trillion-dollar deficits for "years to come." Gov. David Paterson will deliver a message of unity in the face of fiscal calamity and defend his proposed budget cuts in his first State of the State address ...

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NY Gov targets clean energy and health despite deficit - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state should fight obesity, help more residents get health insurance and revive the upstate economy with a research consortium for hybrid car batteries and energy storage, Governor David Paterson proposed on Wednesday ...

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Rutgers to pay ex-athletic director for 18 months - Newsday

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Former Rutgers University athletic director Robert Mulcahy will receive more than $500,000 in salary and perks over the next 18 months. That's how much time remains on Mulcahy's five-year contract, which ends in June 2010. At ...

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Daimler AG Reports a 23.5 Percent Decrease for the Mercedes-Benz Cars ... - PR Newswire

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Daimler AG (stock exchange abbreviaton DAI) today reported sales for the Mercedes-Benz Cars division (Mercedes-Benz and smart combined) of 20,848 units in the U.S. for December 2008. All sales figures in ...

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Six ways to stop burning money - San Francisco Examiner

The biggest blessing of a New Year--beside the fact that we're all still here to share it--is the opportunity to make a fresh start. There's no better time to consider where we've been, where we want to be and how we're going to get there, despite ...

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Taxi and Limousine Commissioner wants cabbie cameras - New York Daily News

Empire CLS a limo and chauffeur service out of Secaucas, NJ has cameras installed on the windshield of their vehicles that record accidents. Cabbies who weave in and out of traffic, slam on their brakes or sideswipe bicyclists better think twice ...

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