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...credential called a "certificate registration number" and then help the registrant find a job. But the credential was bogus and there were no jobs. "When the economy is down, scammers take advantage of people who are anxious about their financial position," says FTC attorney Karen Hobbs. A growing area of concern: unemployment-insurance scams. (Make a note now that you should never have to pay anybody money to collect unemployment benefits...
While restaurant owner Vinod Kapoor has been embroiled in a lawsuit with landlord Raj Dhanda in a dispute over common area maintenance charges since February, sales have dipped approximately 40 percent in the past year, Kapoor said...
...result, tech companies are eager to expand into new product lines and markets to generate growth. One such area is information-technology services. Basically, IT-services companies offer everything from integrating computer systems to IT consulting to overseeing back-office processes that handle accounting and health-care plans...
...acting against the wishes of residents. As in California, much of that opposition has been organized through churches. A network of pastors at predominantly black churches have been vocal opponents, and over the summer, Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl joined the fray, reminding hundreds of Catholic priests in the area of the church's opposition. However, Pastor Patrick J. Walker, chairman of a task force opposing same-sex marriage in the Missionary Baptist Ministers' Conference of D.C. and Vicinity, predicts polarization and little appetite within Congress to take up the issue amid the health-care debate and other pressing issues...
...exclusive interview. "It was built into a mountain; obviously that raised question marks." Panetta said that after he was confirmed as the agency's director, "we spent the next months trying to get better intel about what was going on there ... and conducting covert operations into that area." (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...