… was 1.2 percent stronger at 13.3006 at 5 p.m. in Johannesburg, the best performer after Brazil's real of 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
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SAN FRANCISCO – In a bid to further cut down on waste, eco-conscious San Francisco is expected to join Seattle in outlawing plastic straws used to suck down Mai Tais and slurp up bubble tea.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Papa John's is attempting to ward off its controversial founder from amassing a controlling stake in the company by adopting a “poison-pill” plan.
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A former school groundskeeper, diagnosed with terminal cancer, told a San Francisco jury Monday that he called a Monsanto Co. hotline twice – once before his diagnosis, once after – and asked whether the herbicide he was spraying on the job, the most
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… grew by 531,000 in the second quarter, Verizon said on Tuesday, topping the 436,000 average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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