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Obama makes pitch for health-care reform	3/15/2010 12:06 PM
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- With a decisive vote on his health-care overhaul possible within days, President Obama made an impassioned pitch Monday in northeast Ohio, where unemployment runs high and insurance coverage is never a certainty.
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Economic Agenda: March 15, 2010	3/15/2010 3:55 AM
Key Events 9:15 a.m.: The Federal Reserve issues figures on industrial production for February. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg think that output will stay unchanged from January. Finance ministers from the 16 euro-zone nations are scheduled to meet to discuss the Greek debt crisis. Senate banki...
Tests fail to duplicate acceleration problem in Prius	3/15/2010 3:57 AM
Investigators from Toyota and the government have been unable to duplicate the runaway acceleration in a 2008 Prius that a Southern California man said took him on a 30-mile wild ride last week, according to a draft memo from a congressional panel.
Cost of Internet fraud on steep rise	3/14/2010 10:00 PM
LOS ANGELES -- U.S. citizens reported losing more than $550 million in 2009 in Internet fraud, falling prey to a variety of increasingly sophisticated scams, according to a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center .
Schools, health care, public safety lose millions in Va. budget	3/14/2010 10:00 PM
RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly adjourned its annual legislative session Sunday evening after adopting a two-year, $82 billion budget that cuts millions from education, health care and public safety -- curtailing state spending more aggressively than any in generations while fulfilling ...
Chinese oil giant to buy stake in Argentine firm	3/14/2010 10:00 PM
HONG KONG -- Leading offshore-oil producer China National Offshore Oil Corp. said Sunday that it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to form a joint venture with a major Argentine energy firm, helping to expand China's access to natural resources in South America.
Curbing earmarks: Even with new restrictions, for-profits play a role	3/14/2010 10:00 PM
Twice in recent years, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) helped obtain earmarks totaling $3.2 million for a home-state university to study how to make military jet fuel from plants. Standing behind that nonprofit work, however, is a for-profit Chicago firm that often ...
State attorneys general vie for stronger consumer protection role	3/14/2010 10:00 PM
In the fight over how to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system, one of the key power struggles has pitted the states -- in particular a core group of state attorneys general -- against federal regulators, financial lobbyists and some members of Congress.
INSIDER TRANSACTIONS	3/14/2010 10:00 PM