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Grease sizzles as fuel source
Tribune reportersIn the era of alternative fuels, grease is turning into a pretty slick investment. Restaurants increasingly are being paid for their used cooking oil, icky stuff that historically they've had to pay to have hauled away. And sales of kits that allow...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Natural Resources, Petroleum Industry
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Value Meal at Starbucks, Coming Up.
NEW YORK (AP) - The allure of the value meal has long seduced penny-pinchers craving a cheeseburger. Now, as the dismal economy slurps up profits, Starbucks Corp. is hoping to find some sales salvation in its own value meal variety. The tug of war for...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Consumers, Foods and Beverages, Brooklyn (New York City), Coffee
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PETA targets McDonald's over slaughter of chickens
Nine years after calling a truce with McDonald's Corp., People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it is going on a new offensive against the Oak Brook-based fast-food giant, this time over the most humane way to kill a chicken. Should chickens...Tags: Animals, Companies and Corporations, Restaurants, Pension and Welfare, KFC Corp.
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Starbucks to Close 200 Stores Nationwide
SEATTLE -- Coffee lovers beware, Starbucks Corp. says it plans a new round of store closures and other cuts. The gourmet coffee chain plans to close 300 under performing stores around the world - including 200 in the U.S. - by the end of the fiscal...Tags: Starbucks Corp., KTLA, Coffee, Companies and Corporations
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Revisiting investment options for children
Tribune staff reporterWith a couple more days left of the winter school break, and parents scrounging for ideas to keep children from bouncing off the walls, you might want to provide a lesson in investing. So I am going to relate suggestions readers provided a couple of...Tags: Starbucks Corp., T. Rowe Price, Stock Broking, Consumers, Walt Disney
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Global leaders rack up growth
Tribune staff reporterSearch company name or ticker symbol Just when things were going along swimmingly for the stock market, investors were hit by the inflation shudders. Fears that sky-high prices for oil, copper, gold and other commodities would spread to the rest of...Tags: Federal Reserve, Finance, CBOT Holdings Incorporated, Indiana, Tellabs Incorporated
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Edwin Traisman, 91; helped develop Cheez Whiz
Times Staff WriterEdwin Traisman, a food researcher who helped create Cheez Whiz and, as an early McDonald's franchise owner in Wisconsin, co-developed the freezing process used to make McDonald's French fries, has died. He was 91. Traisman, a resident of Monona, Wis.,...Tags: Potatoes, Companies and Corporations, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Colleges and Universities, Research
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Will Starbucks ads fill a tall order?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe world's dominant coffee retailer launched a national television advertising campaign Friday called "Pass the Cheer." Some Starbucks watchers said it would have been better to go with "Lower the Prices." The Seattle-based company began the...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Starbucks Corp., Television, Television Industry, Petroleum Industry
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KFC to tell diners of chemical in potatoes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTo resolve a suit by the state attorney general, the maker of Kentucky Fried Chicken agreed Tuesday to tell its California customers that its fried or baked potatoes contain a suspected carcinogen. The attorney general's office had sued about a dozen...Tags: Environmental Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Burger King Corp., California
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Investors give Sears executives an earful
Tribune staff reporterShareholders chastised Sears, Roebuck and Co. officials Thursday at the company's annual meeting, taking issue with what they called hefty executive bonuses in a year in which the struggling retailer's stock lost nearly half of its value. "You are...Tags: Earnings Forecasts, Altria Group, Inc., Finance, Earnings, Economy, Business and Finance
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