Tax bill grows with wide array of special breaks
The Senate Finance Committee advances a corporate tax bill loaded with targeted breaks for exporters, cruise lines, Oldsmobile dealers, NASCAR, bow and arrow makers, hotel and film incentives, and National Guard payroll provisions. Critics call the package pork and worry about cost while some lawmakers push to strip or limit the provisions.
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Washington
European Union
Oldsmobile
Nascar
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
National Guard
John McCain
R-Ariz
McCain
Capital Hill
Tom Schatz
Citizens Against Government
Schatz
Amateur gas spotters post prices on Web sites
Amateur price spotters like Ciamarra use GasBuddy.com to log station prices and help neighbors compare cost. He travels weekly across eastern city neighborhoods, covering up to 80 miles, turning short trips into longer searches to aid consumers in a volatile fuel market.
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GasBuddy.com
Ciamarra
Jason Toews
Minneapolis
OPEC
Gas prices jump ten cents amid rising oil costs
U S prices rose by ten cents a gallon in two weeks the largest jump since last August. The Lundberg Survey put the national average at about 1.96 per gallon while crude oil touched a 13 year high near 40 per barrel amid Gulf War concerns.
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Los Angeles
Lundberg
Diebold faces storm over electronic voting push
Diebold Inc is expanding into electronic voting after the Florida punch card crisis. Critics cite lack of paper audit trails, security flaws, and ties between executives and Republicans, while the company defends security and blames user and mechanical errors. Diebold has seen slower sales and lowered expectations as it touts 55,600 touchscreen stations used in Super Tuesday states.
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North Canton
Florida
Diebold Inc
Walden W. O'Dell
Diebold
Congress
California
O'Dell
Diebold Election Systems
Maryland
Georgia
Election Systems & Software
Omaha
Neb
San Diego County
Northeast Ohio business events calendar highlights
Weekly calendar of business events in the Chronicle Telegram region includes sessions at Cleveland Clinic Lorain on patient communications and health services tours, a Public Square speaker at Key Tower, and hobby to business networking at Hometown Buffet Elyria. Contacts provided for each event.
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Ohio
Chronicle-Telegram
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Charles Grassley
Grassley
Keith Ashdown
Taxpayers For Common Sense
U.S
John Breaux
D-La
Olympia Snowe
R-Maine
Jeff Bingaman
Dn.m
General Motors
Treasury
United States
Lisa Murkowski
R-Alaska
Hollywood
Mississippi Delta
AAA
Automobile Association of America
Sunoco
Exxon
LNB
Lorain National Bank
4LNB
The
Associated Press
Vers
Mark Radke
Canton
Cleveland Clinic
Lorain
Cooper Foster Park Road
Key Tower
Pub
Lic Square
River Road North
Elyria
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