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The biometric solution(s)
The American people want the Democratic and Republican parties to solve our nation's problems together, but bipartisan solutions become possible only if each side gives the other the benefit of the doubt. We should begin with two polarizing issues —...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Immigration, Amusement and Theme Parks, Mexico
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Microsoft reportedly in talks to invest in Dell buyout [Updated]
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly in discussions to help finance a buyout of struggling computer maker Dell Inc. According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a person familiar with the talks, Microsoft's investment "would likely be in the range of a...
Tags: Chromebook, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., The Wall Street Journal
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A year of challenges for city residents
A year ago, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave an inaugural address that was both lofty in vision and grounded in reality — the poetry of growing Baltimore by 10,000 residents in the next decade tempered by the prose of how to get there. "We...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, U.S. Senate, Government, Public Officials, Randallstown
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Rosenthal: What's the deal with Groupon?
"When a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact," Warren Buffett likes to say when asked if a good chief executive can salvage a bad business....
Tags: Initial Public Offerings, Credit Ratings, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Andrew Mason, Groupon, Inc.
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Herald-Mail 2012 Person of the Year: Thomas Newcomer
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comWhen he was a kid, just 12 or 13 years old, Thomas C. Newcomer spent time working in the orchards of his hometown of Smithsburg. A few years before that, Newcomer, now 51, caught the giving bug. While working with his grandfather on the family farm,...Tags: Annapolis, Museums, The Herald-Mail, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Artists
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Investment outlook for 2013 clouded by uncertainty
Usually by early December, investment professionals have mapped out their outlook for the next year. But such forecasting has been made difficult by the "fiscal cliff" — the confluence of spending cuts and higher taxes that kick in automatically...Tags: Hunt Valley, Adams Express Company, Health Insurance Cost, Energy Resources, Finance
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N. Joseph Woodland dies at 91; co-inventor of bar code
N. Joseph Woodland, a co-inventor of the system of thick and thin lines that became the ubiquitous bar code labeling nearly every product regulated by commerce, has died. He was 91. Woodland died Sunday at his home in Edgewater, N.J., from the effects...Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), World War II (1939-1945), Bill Gates, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Invention and Innovation
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Companies commit to hiring veterans this holiday season
If you take a stroll through the meat isle in the Kroger store on Crawfordsville Road, you're likely to find things in tip top shape. "I'll walk through here, verify the packages aren't outside the bunkers, make sure they're in what we call the safe...
Tags: Toys "R" Us, Inc., John Elliott, September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Army
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City seeks to block questioning of former deputy mayor in phone suit
The city's lawyer has filed paperwork to block a former deputy mayor and the administration's technology chief from answering questions in a lawsuit over a proposed overhaul of the municipal telephone system. City Solicitor George Nilson is asking a...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Issues, Government
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Cut Medicare and Social Security? What's the rush?
The question that normally comes to mind when someone claims to know the future is why he's out hustling rubes for pennies with his purported clairvoyance, instead of using it to make a fortune and retiring to the South Seas. Of course, the answer is...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Congressional Budget Office, Iraq War (2003-2011), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Apple iPad
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Wedded: Marielle Newman and Benjamin Schiffman
Wedding day: Oct. 27, 2012 Her story: Marielle Alexis Newman, 27, grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. She is a color specialist for Under Armour. Her dad, Howell Newman, works for IBM and her mother, Leona Newman, works for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society....
Tags: Hunt Valley, Radio Industry, Leukemia, Pies and Tarts, Pikesville
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New holiday tradition? Giving Tuesday urges shoppers to give to others
After the shopping binge of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, charities are encouraging consumers to give back in a newly minted day called Giving Tuesday. Charities and nonprofits across the country are rolling out fundraising drives and recruiting...
Tags: Social Services, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Charity, Media Industry, Holidays
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