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		News & Info From Our Sponsor Wednesday, February 06, 2008 • Big-box developer drops site touted as an eastside Wal-Mart A Canadian developer has pulled out of a proposed big-box development on Northeast 82nd Avenue kitty-corner to Madison High School after bitter opposition from neighborhood groups that feared construction of a Wal-Mart. • Industry Notes REAL ESTATE • Korean court says Lone Star guilty in stock case Just before he made his Oregon sales pitch, John Grayken, chairman of Texas-based Lone Star Funds, testified in South Korea in an alleged misconduct case tied to Lone Star's purchase of Korea Exchange Bank's credit card unit. • Microsoft bid has Yahoo users cringing SEATTLE -- While Yahoo's executives ponder Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid, the deal is generating some backlash from Yahoo users. • Microsoft smartens up Web ads REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft's online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers. • News highlights NEWS UPDATE: NORTHWEST TIMBER • Oregon invests in housing's bad luck Though Oregon lawmakers want to tighten state rules this month to reduce foreclosures, the Oregon Treasury wants to turn a profit off the slumping U.S. housing market. • Recession 'if' turning into 'how bad?' Lingering hopes that the U.S. economy might avert a recession withered Tuesday after business in the nation's service sector -- its banks, travel companies, contractors and stores, among others -- shrank for the first time in five years. • Workplace Employers attempt to predict the future by looking at the past. They're trying to determine whether you will be a reliable, hardworking and motivated employee, so everything about you needs to promote that idea.
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