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For a decade, Tom and Carol Braford have been inching toward success with their what’s-old-is-new-again housing project in the Central West End.
They’ve poured $700,000 into bringing "co

Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc said it will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in a fresh wave of cuts to cope with an economic downturn that has exacerbated a decline in traditional phone sales.
Joining a raft of companies slashing costs to survive a slump in spending, AT&T said […]

It’s official: For the last year, the U.S. economy has been in recession. And based on the latest economic reports and outlooks, it doesn’t appear that the situation will improve anytime soon.
The evidence of a downturn has been widespread for months: slower production, stagnant wages and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But […]

In a move likely to fuel speculation over Yahoo Inc.’s search for a new chief executive, activist investor Carl Icahn has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet company, according to regulatory filings.
Icahn, a billionaire hedge-fund manager who threatened to oust Yahoo’s board this summer after it rejected a deal […]