The 'Toll Would Have Been Less'
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RICHMOND, Aug. 30 -- The communications breakdowns, gaps in the mental health system and confusion over student privacy laws that were identified as problems by the panel that investigated the massacre at Virginia Tech might take years to correct and require action by the federal government, panel...
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Natural disaster's devastation didn't move far enough inland to harm technology enterprises.
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It turns out that misery is not miserly.
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Last week's action to cut the federal funds rate makes today's decision tougher.
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That would be small consolation to pharma investors.
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The work may have been subcontracted to another firm.
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Olivia Manning said it wasn't as bad as she thought it might be.
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Comment is free: Carol Nahra: We were unlucky in the tragic hand dealt to our son, but blessed to have had British healthcare.
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A retail darling goes down. Those looking at the real story would have stayed on shore.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.
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The world's biggest reinsurer said Tuesday that the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis likely will cost it less than 100 million euros (&#36;136 million), saying its exposure to the extensive damage would be limited by low insurance coverage.
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England's colleges say they have been given far less money than they need to meet government targets.
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The toll from Sunday&#39;s car bomb blast in Kabul rose Monday with different accounts from Western security forces and Afghan officials suggesting as many as a dozen people may have been killed.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- What happened Tuesday was unexpected. Today, they know it could get worse.
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Tackling climate change will cost far less than the pessimists suggest, a British scientist says.
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TROUBLED UK life assurer Equitable Life yesterday said it had taken a Â£75 million hit as it moved in line with the rest of the sector and set aside more reserves to address the fact that people are living longer.
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Scientists say the death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka had been part of an international system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves.