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Justice, SEC questioned on pace of probes
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As the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission
investigate
more than 100 stock-option backdating cases, they face criticism on the
pace
of the probes and hard choices about which ones to pursue charges on.

Gasoline prices getting pumped up again
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Gasoline prices have jumped above $3 a gallon in some parts of
California and
Hawaii, and may hit that level in other parts of the country when the
busy
summer driving season approaches.

Bush creeps up from all-time low in poll
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President Bush, in a bitter showdown with Congress over Iraq, has crept
up a
speck from an all-time low in his job approval rating. But his standing
is the
weakest of any second-term president at this point in 56 years.

# posted by John @ 3/09/2007 09:46:00 AM