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Retirees can convert time into money
Time and money are inexorably linked through our life stages. During our working lives, we sell our time to earn money at a job. And then we spend money to recapture precious time — paying others to mow our lawns, complete our income tax returns...Tags: Services and Shopping, Home Improvement, Apple iPad, Music, Retirement
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Michigan panel OKs $31M for health care exchange
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan legislative panel on Wednesday voted to spend the $31 million in federal grant money allocated for the creation of the state's online health insurance marketplace, a key component of the federal health care overhaul....
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Politics, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Perks and pointers for spending less
Here are some tips to add to your storehouse of money-saving knowledge. For instance, you can get money back when a hotel room rate drops. Or you may be able to get free airline lounge passes or a hotel upgrade. Here's how. Getting money back if the...
Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Travel, American Airlines, Inc., Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Air Transportation Industry
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No oceanview room — and no refund
Mary Fahy pays extra for a nonrefundable oceanview room through Expedia, but when she checks in, she's given quarters overlooking the other side of the property. Is she owed a refund? Q: I recently booked a hotel room for a three-night stay at the...
Tags: Travel, Hotels and Accommodations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Trips and Vacations
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Tinley Park may sue online hotel discounters
Tinley Park trustees are considering joining a class-action lawsuit against 18 online firms that offer hotel and motel rooms at discounted prices. Expected to be filed by mid-May, the suit claims the firms don't pay full taxes on rooms they sell at...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Tinley Park, Trials, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Orland Park
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Antitrust Review Delays Priceline's Deal To Buy Kayak
Online travel agency Priceline.com's $1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller rival Kayak Software Corp, which was expected to close this month, will be delayed due to a prolonged review by UK antitrust regulators. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has...Tags: Restraint of Trade, Trips and Vacations, Sports, Boats, Travel
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Opaque airfares — but do they work?
Add GetGoing.com to the list of "opaque" travel buying websites — this time, one that specializes in airfares. "Opaque" means you don't find out about the details of the trip until after you make a nonrefundable purchase. The current big opaque...
Tags: Travel, Hong Kong, Rentals, Milan (Italy), Trips and Vacations
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Fight over Michigan health insurance market not done
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder's attempt for legislative approval of a new health insurance market in Michigan has been 1 ½-year odyssey — and it's not over yet. The GOP-led Senate quickly got behind his state-run marketplace, or...
Tags: Government, Politics, U.S. Senate, Rick Snyder, Executive Branch
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1st DCA finds for Orbitz et al in bed-tax dispute
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Rejecting arguments that counties have been shortchanged, a state appeals court Thursday sided with the online-travel industry in a major legal battle about payment of hotel bed taxes. The... -
Hotel Bethlehem: Where employees are treated like guests
When Ronald Watts applied for a job as a dishwasher at the historic Hotel Bethlehem, he knew no one in the swank inn, where uniformed bellhops greet guests seeking a room or meal. More than a year later, the 43-year-old not only makes the china shine...
Tags: Human Interest, Science and Technology, Allentown, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Restaurants
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Web Buzz: Help homeless youths by booking hotel on Rooomr.com
You can help a child at the same time you book a hotel stay — without an added price hike. Name: Rooomr.com What it does: Rooomr is a hotel booking site that also seeks to improve the lives of homeless youth by donating 5% of its gross income to...Tags: Charleston, New York City, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Will smart machines create a world without work?
WASHINGTON (AP) — They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider." Now, two years after Google invented one, automated cars could...
Tags: Labor Markets, Consumers, Microsoft Corporation, Nobel Prize Awards, Colleges and Universities
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