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Rear Admiral Sean F. Crean, director, Office of Small Business Programs, Department of the Navy, delivers the keynote address during the Veterans In Business Conference.

In baseball, ‘dead money’ lives on to haunt teams that continue to pay players no longer on their rosters
The phenomenon, also called ‘sunk costs,’ is a key part of game’s economics. Examples: Toronto’s paying $ 5 million of Vernon Wells’ Angels salary, while Angels pay $ 11 million to Gary Matthews Jr., who’s out of baseball. Standing at his locker shortly before the Angels’ home opener against the Toronto Blue Jays, outfielder Vernon Wells had mixed emotions about facing the team that traded him …
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Timothy Geithner gives some companies pass on new trade rules
New rules require that many such trades happen more transparently, on exchanges where regulators can see them.
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Earnings Scorecard: Quest Diagnostics
The announcement of Quest Diagnostics’ first quarter of fiscal 2011 results as on April 20, 2011, has triggered analysts to revise estimates downwards
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