Because small businesses and individuals are merged into one pool as far as assessing risk, firms will also end up subsidizing the costs of coverage for people buying individual plans.

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The stock, of course, has been plagued by a combination of a poorly received price hike and an ill-conceived (and quickly canceled) plan to separate the company into two businesses, one to rent DVDs by mail and the other to stream video digitally.

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For about one week of the year, New Orleans officials and businesses go into overdrive to rake in the dollars that come parading through town.

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Both business schools and businesses have been talking about it for years without turning business people into angels (one of the loudest advocates was Ken Lay, the chairman of Enron).

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Founded in 1963 by the company's late patriarch, Sun Hung Kai developed into one of Hong Kong's most successful businesses, and when the elder Kwok died in 1990, he left the reins of Sun Hung Kai to his three sons, with the eldest, Walter Kwok, at the helm.

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Kraft Foods, the maker of everything from Easy Mac to Oreo cookies, plans to split up into two businesses Thursday, and based on the current landscape in the global economy one may be much more attractive than the other.

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One particular attraction is that businesses supposedly pay the money and thus will roll the costs into the prices they charge for their goods and services, a sort of energy version of the value-added tax.

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They bought a truck with a compactor, hired one full-time employee, and built the business into 1, 250 residential and 70 commercial businesses.

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