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American Airlines raised many domestic fares by $5 each way but left prices unchanged on routes where it competes with low-cost carriers.
The Thursday night increase affected both advance-purchase tickets favored by vacationers and more costly last-minute tickets aimed at business travelers.
Tim Smith, a spokesman for the airline owned by Fort Worth-based AMR Corp., said the […]

Czech Airlines has announced that it is to pull its route between Prague and Stansted Airport from the end of October.
However, the carrier will still run the usual 18 Prague services a week to and from Heathrow Airport “in line with the airline’s strategy of offering flights to the major airports”, it confirmed.
The move comes […]

Dr. Lee Vickers, president of Dickinson State University (DSU), will receive the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce Education and Business Award during the Dickinson Chamber of Commerce banquet on October 30, 2007 at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Dickinson.
The award is one of the state chamber’s four prestigious statewide awards. It is being […]

Utah Valley State College’s school of business not only received a new name Friday, it also received the largest donation in its history.
The Woodbury Corp. donated $20 million to the school, which is now called the Woodbury School of Business.
UVSC President William Sederburg said in a statement […]

While national statistics still show that schools are the safest places children can be, the thinking surrounding school safety has changed in recent years, according to a Berkeley County Schools leader who spoke this week to a group of the district’s Business Education partners.
Rick Deuell, the assistant superintendent of Berkeley County Schools, outlined the district’s […]

Business schools had lofty ambitions when they were created, with the goal of producing professionals who would have the respect of doctors and lawyers, according to a new book that sees M.B.A. programs today as largely having failed to live up to those ideals. To this day, he writes, many business schools are still struggling […]

Olympic chiefs are facing fresh criticism over their handling of the budget for the London 2012 Games after the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell admitted that consultants are to receive more than £60 million for their work on the project.
According to a parliamentary written answer given by Jowell this week, the Olympic Delivery Authority, the body […]

Mercer WealthSolutions head David Anderson said financial advice was particularly important for pre-retirees, who needed to navigate complex investment decisions, social security, insurance, estate planning and superannuation.
“People need help co-ordinating all the pieces of their financial game plan. In March 2007, Mercer conducted a survey on Better Super among a random sample of 300 working […]

You probably don’t want to hear it, but if the Red Sox must lose to someone this year, let it be the Indians.
These people deserve it.
Only Cubs fans have waited longer for a championship than the Indians, who last won it all in 1948. These people have waited 43 years for a Cleveland team to […]

BEIJING, — /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — PacificNet, Inc. , a leading provider of CRM, gaming and ecommerce services in China, announced today that the 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders was held on October 17, 2007 at 1:00pm (Beijing Time) at the Company’s executive offices located at 23rd Floor, Building A, TimeCourt, No. 6 Shuguang Xili, Chaoyang […]

Success in business means thinking on your feet, creative problem solving and openness to new ideas.
For undergraduate business students taking part in the University of South Florida’s inaugural Bulls Business Community residence floor, monthly theater games and improvisation workshops are the madness to that method.
It’s part of an overall commitment to improving communication skills […]

China is enforcing strict standards for its exports and will continue to work to regain consumer confidence in its products a top quality official said Wednesday.
Li Changjiang, head of China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said officials have taken substantial measures to ensure that goods are made by certified manufacturers with qualified […]

When Marietta-based Cobb EMC, a nonprofit electricity co-operative, tallied its 2006 expenses for services, the charges were nearly 21 percent higher than they had been the year before.
The $10 million increase came from Cobb Energy, a private, for-profit affiliate of Cobb EMC.
Information about the increased charges was contained in the final footnote of a co-op […]

An index that tracks developers’ expectations of future home sales fell this month to a new record low, suggesting price cuts haven’t yet injected a spark into the slumping market.
The National Association of Home Builders said Tuesday its housing market index, which tracks builders’ perceptions of conditions and expectations for home sales over the next […]

A sprawling, often half-empty south parking lot at the Avondale MARTA station is slated to be redeveloped into a dense city block with apartments, condominiums and street-level retail shops.
Up to four new buildings are planned surrounding a parking deck that will serve both MARTA patrons and residents of the development, to be called Columbia Park.
The […]