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Federal funds aimed at improving the economy have revived talk of a southern Brazoria County transportation system, and Clute has become the first local city to pledge support.

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FLORHAM PARK - Holy Family Church School on Lloyd Avenue is raising funds for the Food Allergy Initiative of Manhattan, a non-profit dedicated research and raising awareness about food allergies.

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U.S. Rep. Ron Kind and business development leaders will discuss federal stimulus funds and resources available to small businesses at 2 p.m. Monday in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Cleary Alumni and Friends Center, 615 East Ave. N.

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SALAMA, the world’s largest Takaful and Re-Takaful Group ties up with Crédit Agricole Asset Management Group (CAAM Group), ranked the world’s 11th asset manager*, to offer the best expertise of the CAAM Group in Sharia compliant investment management through 3 Islamic funds: BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) quantitative fund, an active Asian equities ex-Japan and a Global Equity fund of …

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EUREKA — Humboldt County’s Department of Health and Human Services has announced that applications are available for Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Act funds.

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GALVESTON A plan to spend $107 million in Hurricane Ike relief funds includes water and sewer system overhauls and work on Stewart Road.

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Are target-date mutual funds missing the bull’s-eye? It appears the answer is yes for many of these funds, which are designed to smooth a worker’s path to retirement by automatically resetting the investments as the investor ages.

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In the last year, the Chyanne Scott Foundation provided funds to five families with sick children and sponsored four scholarships.

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Question: I’m planning to invest some money in the stock market, but I’m wondering whether I should buy mutual funds or individual stocks. Which do you think is better? And in the event I decide to go with stocks, which ones to you think are really good buys now? –Monique Thompson

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May 29 (Bloomberg) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and J. Ezra Merkin have revised terms of an order appointing a receiver for the financier’s Ariel and Gabriel funds with the approval of New York University, according to an attorney for the school.

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