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    Greed In America

    Slideshow • Economy • money • business • ISSUE 45•39 • Sep 29, 2009
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    • $700 Billion Bailout Celebrated With Lavish $800 Billion Executive Party

      GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS—4-tons of Beluga caviar and $250,000 bottles of vintage Dom Pérignon were on hand for America's CEOs to celebrate the historic bailout.
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    • Federal Judge Rules Parker Brothers Holds Monopoly Monopoly

      WASHINGTON, DC–In a landmark antitrust decision, U.S. District Judge Thomas Nance ruled Monday that Parker Brothers' controlling interest in the popular board game Monopoly constitutes an illegal Monopoly monopoly.
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    • KFC Releases New Family-Size Nugget

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    • Exxon Paleontologists Call For Increased U.S. Fossil Production

      IRVING, TX—In what Exxon officials described as
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    • Product Placement Mars Otherwise Exciting Super Bowl

      JACKSONVILLE, FL—Although NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue declared the Super Bowl XXXIX experiment with in-game product placement a success, fans and players expressed mixed feelings about the championship game Monday.
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    • Just Six Corporations Remain

      NEW YORK—At the current rate of mergers, there will be only one corporation in the world by the year 2000.
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    • Congress Raises Executive Minimum Wage To $565.15/Hr

      WASHINGTON, DC—Congress approved a bill to increase the executive minimum wage from $515.15 to $565.15 an hour, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) announced Monday. The move marks the first increase in the wage since 1997.
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    • In The Know: Are America's Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?

      Panelists discuss a new study showing the gap between the wealthy and the absurdly wealthy is widening, and how we can help the merely rich catch up.
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    • McDonald's Employee Just In It For The Money

      SHREVEPORT, LA—Sean Boyce, 22, cares more about getting his paycheck than dedicating himself to his craft.
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    • 2008 Tax Records Reveal Sasha Obama Made $136 In Allowance Money

      WASHINGTON—The first daughter tried to dodge senators' questions by playing with her pigtails, leaving to use the bathroom, and asking what
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