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BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Christopher Palmeri	Pretty Liberal With The Cash In the past three years, the California Public Employees' Retirement System has committed up to $760 million to Burkle for investments to help underserved segments of society while still making money for the retirement fund.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress Gives Tax Break to Tech Industry The U.S. Senate approved today a one-year tax break backed by the tech industry that proponents say will repatriate more than $300 billion into the U.S. economy and create as many as a half million new jobs.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Seth Jayson	Senate Stalls Swapping Bill U.S. Judiciary Committee grants file swipers a reprieve.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bush's "Internets" The World Wide Web is shaping up huge in the 2004 presidential election.
Science News October 9, 2004 Janet Raloff	Honey, Let's Shrink the Kids After 2 years of hearings and fact-finding on the nation's childhood obesity epidemic, a 19-member panel commissioned by Congress offers their recommendations and calls for fundamental changes in our society.
InternetNews October 8, 2004	House Toughens Spyware Penalties For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday.
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 John Carey	"Off-Label" -- And Out Of Bounds? When drugmakers promote products for unproven uses, they may be courting trouble. How restrictive should the regulations be?
InternetNews October 7, 2004 Roy Mark	Congress Still Hot on Tech Agenda The House and Senate are battling to session's end on new Internet access tax moratorium and blocking stock option expensing.
Registered Rep. October 7, 2004 Will Leitch	A `Bull Market' in Regulation Lamented at the SIA Small Firms Conference There is plenty of worry on the minds of attendees of the Security Industry Association's Small Firms Conference this week. It centers on regulations and Bush vs. Kerry.
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