Posts Tagged ‘deal’
BP expects to pay $7.8B in Gulf spill suit deal (AP)
AP – BP’s settlement of lawsuits filed by more than 100,000 victims of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history goes a long way toward resolving pending claims. But the question remains, will Americans who live along the Gulf of Mexico go for it?
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Top bargainers announce payroll tax cut deal (AP)
AP – Relieved congressional bargainers say they’ve reached agreement on compromise legislation extending payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed through 2012, edging a white-hot political battle a major step closer to finally being resolved.
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House-Senate deal reached on payroll tax measure (AP)
AP – Calling quits to a bruising election-year fight, negotiators on Capitol Hill sealed an agreement late Wednesday on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more.
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House leaders praise emerging payroll tax cut deal (AP)
AP – Congressional leaders of both parties praised an emerging deal Wednesday to extend a payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, but cautioned that bargainers still had to nail down final details.
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Lawmakers move to cusp of deal on payroll tax cut (AP)
AP – Congressional leaders are gauging lawmakers’ reactions to a tentative deal extending a 2 percentage-point payroll tax cut and extra jobless benefits through 2012, a pact bargainers reached after House Republicans conceded that the tax cut would not have to be paid for with spending cuts.
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Greece passes new austerity deal amid rioting (AP)
AP – Greece’s parliament early Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled country from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police.
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Yanks and Pirates still talking, but A.J. deal not close
The Yankees and Pirates continued to work Sunday toward completing a trade that would ship A.J. Burnett to Pittsburgh, but a baseball source said the sides were still “a good ways away” from a deal.
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