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Stories tagged with: nyt
My Time as a Hostage, and I'm a Business Reporter
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/weekinreview/24barboza.htm...
Detention in a toy factory says something about the new power of the Chinese marketplace. "Factory bosses, I would discover, can overrule the police, and Chinese government officials are not as powerful as you might suspect in a country addicted to foreign investment."
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Submitted by hawaii
56 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours agoTags: nyt, business, journalism, China, thomas, toys 
A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html?e...
Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier.
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Submitted by hawaii
56 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 11 hours agoTags: retail, cashier, lines, queue, wholefoods, nyt 
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03googl...
Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best answer each user’s question. It is a crucial part of Google’s inner sanctum, a department called “search quality” that the company treats like a state secret.
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Spinning Into Oblivion
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/opinion/05sachsnunziato.ht...
Two record store owners on how the RIAA made wrong decisions and killed their business.
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