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Shares of Jack in the Box fell Thursday, after the fast-food chain predicted that its 2010 profit would be lower than Wall Street expected.
Fast-food chain Jack in the Box Inc. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit rose nearly 51 percent as lower food, payroll and administrative costs offset a 7 percent drop in sales. However, a weak forecast for fiscal 2010 sent shares tumbling 6 percent in after-hours trading.
When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist.
The portfolio of Iran's Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran's missile arsenal and its engineers have taken on a rail line as their latest big-ticket project. Could media mogul be next?
Kurt Busch and Pat Tryson had every reason to coast through the season's final 10 races in a long farewell before the crew chief bolts to a new team next year.
The villagers said they just wanted to be left alone. They claimed they had asked the Taliban to stay away, and wished the Americans would do the same.
The James and Jacquizz Show is a post-game fixture for Oregon State.
Nobody is trying to sugarcoat the trainwreck that is Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s season.
Luster Bayless' life reads like a Hollywood script: The son of a dirt-poor Mississippi sharecropper who hitchhiked his way West a half-century ago and carved a niche in Tinseltown.
In television's latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with products in parallel story lines.
Denny Hamlin set his mind on a championship during the offseason, when he vowed to make the personal changes needed to make this a breakthrough season.
When the financial system was teetering, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke flooded it with trillions of dollars to save the banks and free up credit for consumers and businesses.
When Jimmie Johnson ran out of gas at Pocono Raceway in June, turning a second-place finish into a seventh-place finish, it was viewed as a rare mistake for the three-time defending NASCAR champion.
Ryne Sandberg's goal is the same now as it was in 1978: Get to the majors.
What's the well-dressed urbanite wearing this summer? Baggy white coveralls and a beekeeping helmet.
As dawn breaks over a sumptuous Paris garden that was once the playground of kings, a lone horseman puts his mount through his paces. The magnificent steed prances in fancy circles, stretches his forelegs and canters almost in place — in short, he dances.
Nations that allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in their armed forces, as compiled by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara:
For more than a decade, he had prepared for that moment.
Dust in the wind is rewriting the cycle of life in the mountains. Throughout memory the warmth of spring has begun the mountain snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants so they can blossom and renew their species.
Jeremy Mayfield will go head-to-head with NASCAR this week in what very well may be his last shot at racing again this season.
"Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $30), by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman: A new account of the Bataan Death March, in which more than 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were victims of appalling barbarism — a particularly grim episode of World War II following Japan's invasion of the Philippines.
At the bustling Pi pizza restaurant in St. Louis, the staff has come up with a new mantra: "It's just pizza!"
Kobe vs. LeBron would bring the best player buzz to the NBA finals, and Lakers-Celtics is always a can't-miss matchup.
Slovenia is home to about 430 brown bears, but residents of Ljubljana, the capital, rarely see any but the two who live in the local zoo. So, when a wild bear wandered into Tivoli park early Thursday, the joggers, kids and nature lovers who usually pack the city's central park arrived to find that police had closed it.
Twenty-nine years into his U.S. Senate career, Arlen Specter cast what he calls his most difficult vote — a "yes" on the $787 billion economic stimulus bill that made him the only Republican facing re-election in 2010 to support it.
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