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...would the bills affect lobbying on Capitol Hill? The Senate bill, claims cosponsor Christopher Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, would effectively put a NOT FOR SALE sign in front of the Capitol. But it is so weak that some reformers--including Republican John McCain and Democrat Russell Feingold--voted no. Both bills, says Fred Wertheimer, head of the nonpartisan Democracy 21 watchdog group, "leave lobbyists free to function in Congress exactly the way they have been functioning...
...sale ensures that the poetry shop, a 79-year-old Harvard Square institution that has struggled financially over the past decade, will survive...
...EBAY ?Total value of the items purchased on eBay last year (up 30% from 2004): $44.3 billion ?In 2005 eBay sellers listed more than 1.9 billion items for sale ?At any given time eBay buyers can choose from more than 50 million items in 50,000 categories ?More than 724,000 Americans report that selling on eBay is either their primary or secondary source of income
Facebook.com is for sale, and its young owners have rejected a $750 million offer with hopes of landing a $2 billion deal, according to a BusinessWeek story posted online Tuesday...
What's in it for Brazilians and Kansans? Environmental Defense is lobbying Congress to approve a system that would mandate reductions in emissions and allow the sale of permits to release specified amounts of carbon. Companies having trouble cutting emissions could buy allowances from firms that have unused permits. Or they could pay farmers to store carbon and developing nations to preserve forests. The idea comes from a concept developed by Environmental Defense when Krupp helped draft the 1990 Clean Air Act. It set up a trading system to control sulfur dioxide. Krupp believes similar financial incentives could slow global...