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Thursday, February 07, 2008

• 3 companies indicted in pet food deaths
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted Wednesday in the incidents of tainted pet food that killed potentially thousands of animals last year and raised worries about products made in China.

• Farm labor plan is met with doubt
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Wednesday proposed streamlining an agricultural guest-worker program, but growers and farmworker advocates alike already doubt the changes will do much good.

• Companies suing China meet obstacles
NEWARK, N.J. -- When a U.S. scooter maker lost patience with cheaper Chinese-made models flooding the U.S. market, it decided to sue.

• Indonesia group wins bid to buy
three Pope & Talbot pulp mills Sinar Mas Group, an Indonesian conglomerate, has won the right to buy three pulp mills -- including one in Halsey, Ore. -- from bankrupt Portland company Pope & Talbot.

• Industry Notes
TECH NOTES

• Mixed news for Boeing projects
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had good and bad news for Boeing-related defense projects Wednesday when he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about military spending.

• News highlights
NEWS UPDATE: DREAMLINER

• Rally pumps up numbers against LNG terminals
SALEM -- A clear divide is emerging among Oregon Democrats in the fight over whether to build three liquefied natural gas terminals in Oregon, along with hundreds of miles of buried pipelines to move the gas to West Coast markets.

• Small talk
Notes and advice on running small businesses

• Splashy Macy's makeover doesn't dress up sales
On Wednesday, the nation's leading department-store operator, Macy's Inc., confronted financial results showing that its overhaul of many regional department stores has failed to bring back excitement to the flagging retail category.

• Yahoo isn't giving in yet, leader vows
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang told employees Wednesday that the struggling Internet pioneer is still examining ways to avoid a takeover by rival Microsoft.