Mr. Obama’s proposal, being outlined by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner at a midday briefing, also would establish a minimum tax on multinational corporations’ foreign earnings, to discourage “accounting games to shift profits abroad” or actual relocation of production overseas, a senior official said before the briefing. With this framework for changes, Mr. Obama will [...]
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Emotional Adele Adds Top Brit Music Awards to Grammy Successes – San Francisco Chronicle
(For more Bloomberg Muse, click on MUSE <GO>.) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — An emotional Adele led winners at the Brit music awards in London last night. The singer, who has recovered from career-saving throat surgery, followed her six Grammy wins this month by capturing the top British music industry honors. Her “21″ was chosen MasterCard [...]
READ MORE »PGA Tour’s playoffs extended for five more years – Chicago Tribune
Singh of Fiji lines up his ball on 18th hole during Tour Championship in Georgia (Tami Chappell Reuters, REUTERS / September 25, 2008) Source Article from http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/sns-rt-us-golf-pga-playoffstre81l1gs-20120222,0,125371.story
READ MORE »Heart attack chest pain often absent for women – CBC.ca
Chest pain has traditionally been viewed as one of the hallmarks of having a heart attack, but a new U.S. study suggests women aren’t as likely as men to have that symptom when they enter hospital and may also be at higher risk of dying. Dr. John Canto of the Watson Clinic and Lakeland Regional [...]
READ MORE »Sony’s Vita arrives just as market may be fading – Reuters
Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:46am EST * Smartphones, tablets have eroded handheld gaming market * Exec says he’d be pleased with 500,000 units sold in 3 weeks * Vita device comes out Wednesday in United States By Liana B. Baker Feb 22 (Reuters) – Sony Corp’s Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest [...]
READ MORE »Syria Shelling Kills 19, Including 2 Western Journalists – Voice of America
Relentless Syrian shelling Wednesday in the opposition stronghold of Homs has killed at least 19 people including two Western journalists, as government forces escalated attacks on rebel bases. AP This is an undated image of journalist Marie Colvin The French government identified the dead reporters as Marie Colvin, a prominent American war correspondent working for [...]
READ MORE »Obama proposes lowering corporate tax rate to 28 percent – Washington Post
The current U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent is one of the highest in the world, but the abundance of loopholes and deductions enable many businesses to pay far less than that — or nothing at all. Companies in the United States pay almost half the taxes that companies in other rich countries pay, [...]
READ MORE »2 Journalists Are Among the Dead in Syrian Shelling – New York Times
Among the 20 people that activist groups reported killed, two were Western journalists, the veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin, who had been working for The Sunday Times of London, and a young French photographer, Rémi Ochlik. The two had been working in a makeshift media center that was destroyed in the assault, raising suspicions [...]
READ MORE »Brit awards TV audience ‘the biggest since 2005′ – BBC News
22 February 2012 Last updated at 12:02 ET Adele (l) made her feelings known about having her acceptance speech curtailed More people tuned in to ITV’s coverage of this year’s Brit Awards than have done [...]
READ MORE »Golf-PGA Tour’s playoffs extended for five more years – Chicago Tribune
Reuters 10:56 a.m. CST, February 22, 2012 Source Article from http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-golf-pgaplayoffsl2e8dm64w-20120222,0,3757399.story
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