U.S. GDP grows at 3.5 percent in third quarter
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Latest gross domestic product figure exceeds economist predictions by a half a percentage point.
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Lockheed Martin to buy health care technology company
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Twinkies, beer and turnarounds give rise to a billionaire
Mega-investor C. Dean Metropoulos made billions reviving stale brands. Then his party-loving sons joined in.
Reston, not Tysons, begins to dominate Northern Virginia real estate
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The marriage premium — economic and otherwise
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Big gain in Visa drives Dow average higher
U.S. stock indexes are closing higher as big companies turn in encouraging quarterly results.
Why our sluggish recovery is the envy of the advanced world
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Study: Women with more children are more productive at work
Over the course of a 30-year career, mothers outperformed women without children at almost every stage of the game, according to research from the St. Louis Fed.
Atul Gawande explains why the health care system should stop trying to help everyone live longer
Author of “Being Mortal” raises the question of why the U.S. health system prizes the length of a life over the quality of life in a patient’s final years.
What Tim Cook’s coming out could mean for the workplace
The Apple CEO’s public acknowledgement marks a milestone, and could make an imprint on workplaces across the country.
A Giant moment for Bruce Bochy
The San Francisco Giants manager followed the simplest but often hardest rule in leadership: Get out of the way.
Some aging Baby Boomers will upsize, not downsize, if they move at all, poll finds
A survey of 4,000 Baby Boomers suggests that many are not interested in moving or downsizing as they enter their Golden Years.
Millennials are pretty upbeat about the economy
Younger workers are more optimistic about the economy than older generations. But they’re still worried about the long term.
Mobile-phone mapping succeeds where national censuses fail
Plotting phone data, say Belgian researchers, can create population maps “for day and night, for weekdays and weekends, for holy days and working periods.“
How one man’s private files ended up on Apple’s iCloud without his consent
A security researcher is shocked to discover Apple was uploading copies of his files from his Mac.
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