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Breasts, buttocks banned by CBS from Grammys
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS is asking stars not to bare too much skin at the Grammy Awards on Sunday. The network requests that "buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered" for the televised award show. The memo sent out Wednesday also warned...
Tags: Staples Center, Awards and Prizes, Punishment, Fines, Janet Jackson
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Apple,former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
ReutersBy Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps...Tags: Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senate, Justice System, George W. Bush, Crime, Law and Justice
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Apple, former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
ReutersBy Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps...Tags: Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senate, Justice System, George W. Bush, Apple iPad
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Dish on national security PR offensive against SoftBank
ReutersWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp is ramping up its Washington-centric campaign to thwart Japanese firm SoftBank Corp's bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, hoping to convince lawmakers and government reviewers that it poses national security...Tags: National Government, China, Newspapers, U.S. House of Representatives, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
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John McCain: Cable TV, the right way
America's 100 million cable and satellite subscribers are forced to pay ever-higher bills for a growing number of channels they do not watch. The American people are being ripped off. Meanwhile, services such as iTunes and Netflix have led a...
Tags: Television Industry, ESPN (tv network), John McCain, DirecTV Group Inc., U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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4 teams make finals for I-4's $2.1B makeover
Four teams made up of some of the largest companies in the world are in the final running for the $2.1 billion makeover of Interstate 4 through Metro Orlando, state officials said Tuesday. Three other consortia was eliminated during a scoring and ranking...
Tags: Finance, Interstate 4, Teresa Jacobs, Florida's Turnpike, Economy, Business and Finance
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Inmarsat gains on hopes Dish-LightSquared deal will boost revenue
ReutersLONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Shares in satellite firm Inmarsat rose on expectations that Dish Network Corp's bid for the spectrum assets of its U.S. partner LightSquared may lead to a resumption of payments to the British company under an airwaves-sharing... -
Dish's Ergen eyes LightSquared spectrum
Reuters(Reuters) - Charlie Ergen, the chairman of U.S. satellite company Dish Network Corp , has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc's wireless airwaves, a source close to Ergen told Reuters. Ergen's offer for LightSquared spectrum is...Tags: Bankruptcy
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Supreme Court upholds FCC power in cellphone tower case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's two leading conservatives staked out opposite stands Monday over whether judges should play a greater role in second-guessing regulations issued by "unelected bureaucrats" in federal agencies. The divide arose when...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Justice System, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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U.S. justices endorse FCC authority in cellphone tower case
ReutersBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, T-Mobile, Vodafone Group Plc
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Monday: ** Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer a much-needed social media platform to...Tags: Chemical Industry, Vodafone Group Plc, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, Hulu, Rostelecom
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Supreme Court will hear church-state case over prayers at public meetings
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. The justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Vaccines, Belief and Faith, Church and State Relations, Litigation
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