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Investors shift focus to growth stocks

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Helping veterans find jobs

Derrick Dortch will host a roundtable discussion of new programs and initiatives designed to help veterans find jobs or start their own businesses.
May 17, 2013

Tags: workforce , hiring , veterans employment , Department of Veterans Affairs , General Gary Profit , Joe Quinn , Phillip Selleh , VA Accelerator Program , veterans issues , Derrick Dortch , Fed Access

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Helping veterans find jobs

Derrick Dortch will host a roundtable discussion of new programs and initiatives designed to help veterans find jobs or start their own businesses.
May 3, 2013

Tags: workforce , hiring , veterans employment , Department of Veterans Affairs , General Gary Profit , Joe Quinn , Phillip Selleh , VA Accelerator Program , veterans issues , Derrick Dortch , Fed Access

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How stores make customers buy more

In the era of big-box stores and huge varieties of products, in can be difficult to stick to a list when walking down the shopping aisle.

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Cyber Monday: Great deals for shoppers who know where to look

Following the incursion of deal-seekers flooding local retail stores on Black Friday last week, workers return to the office after the Thanksgiving weekend for "Cyber Monday," one of the biggest online shopping days of the year rife with money-saving opportunities, provided the e-shopper knows where to look.

Tags: Cyber Monday , online shopping , Amazon , National Retail Foundation , Daniel Sieberg , Regina Lewis , Max Smith , Paul D. Shinkman

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Walmart plans 4 D.C. stores

The stores will open in the District by 2012. The additional retail is expected to generate $10 million in tax revenue a year. About 1,200 people will be hired.

Tags: Wal-Mart , retail , Shopping , Colleen Kelleher

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Walmart to donate $1M to feed needy

Which city should receive $1 million to feed the needy? Walmart is asking people to vote. D.C. and Baltimore are on the list of cities.

Tags: Wal-Mart , food drive , Thanksgiving , food banks , Kristi King

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Battle to save the Wilderness Battlefield coming to court in January

A war is being waged on two fronts to save two pieces of the Wilderness Battlefield from being lost forever.

Tags: Wilderness Battlefield , Civil War Preservation Trust , Mary Koik , Dr. James McPherson , Civil War

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Grocery prices are going up

Demand for grain is higher. That means products you eat every day -- cereal, chicken, bread and pasta -- are rising in price.

Tags: food , Shopping , groceries , safeway , Colleen Kelleher , Weis , Kellogg's , Kraft , Sara Lee , McDonald's

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Microsoft gets superweapon for fighting botnets

Spammers exploit second Facebook bug

Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , Microsoft , botnets , Facebook , Best Buy ,

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