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| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:21 PM PDT | Branson, Missouri Takes Sting Out of Gas Prices
The Auto Channel Tue, 23 Aug 2005 1:08 PM PDT
BRANSON, Mo., Aug. 23, 2005 -- Branson, Missouri is taking the sting out of rising gas prices by offering visitors Gas Buster Discount Cards worth up to $50 off show and attraction tickets, lodging, meals and retail purchases when they spend just $20 on gas during their trips to town through October 31, 2005. |
Warehouse rival's share rise queried
The New Zealand Herald Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:15 AM PDT
Millers Retail, the Australian discount chain mooted as a potential tie-up with The Warehouse, has received a "please explain" notice after an 11.5 per cent run in its share price last week. |
AdWatch: Drug-benefit initiatives are complicated
The Sacramento Bee Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:58 AM PDT
With a pair of television ads that began airing statewide last week, pharmaceutical companies have begun spending some of the $72 million they've raised to fight Proposition 79, the drug-discount plan backed by unions and consumer groups on the Nov. 8 special-election ballot. The prescription-drug industry is pushing an alternative, Proposition 78. |
Sovereign exits S Korea by selling LG stakes
FT.com via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:50 PM PDT
Sovereign Asset Management on Tuesday sold its stakes in LG Electronics and LG Corp, signalling an exit from South Korea following two years of unsuccessful efforts to improve corporate governance at a number of family-controlled chaebols. |
Russia to end aid to 'revolutionary' allies-report
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Aug 2005 9:44 AM PDT
Moscow is to stop giving economic perks to its ex-Soviet neighbors, a Kremlin source was quoted as saying on Tuesday, in a message to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova they may have to pay for their new pro-Western stance. |
Bob Dole Pitches New Medicare Plan
WESH NewsChannel2000.com via Yahoo! News Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:25 AM PDT
Former senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole visited Central Florida on Tuesday to meet with seniors about Medicare's new prescription drug plan. |
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