Mich. man jailed for assault during Monopoly game

A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her.

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Report: Keep postal monopoly in place

The Postal Rate Commission urged Congress on Friday to keep an eye on postal finances, which have been suffering in the current economic climate, in case changes become necessary.

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Santa’s substitutes for hot holiday gifts

For the fifth straight month retail sales have taken a hit. The Commerce Department released statistics Friday saying that in November, retail sales fell 1.8 percent. This is less than the 2.8 percent decrease in October, but still a significant decrease during the holiday season, which is a time when combined sales for November and December can add up to as much as 50 percent of a retailer's annual profits and sales. As job losses and concerns about the economy curb consumer spending this holiday season, retailers are feeling the pinch.

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Oui, Montreal tops in new Monopoly game

Bye bye, Boardwalk. The Quebec metropolis of Montreal snagged the most expensive spot on a new global version of Monopoly, unseating the Atlantic City fixture as the board game's most prestigious property.

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Cable TV: King of misleading come-ons

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Court Rules in Favor of Telecom Firms

The nation's largest local phone companies won a Supreme Court victory Monday in a lawsuit by consumers alleging anticompetitive business practices.

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New Monopoly Game Uses Debit Card, No Cash

A British version of the classic Monopoly board game released this week substitutes a Visa-imprinted debit card for the stacks of yellow, blue and purple play money long hoarded by children worldwide.

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AT&T is trying to figure out how to gouge its best customers even more, by charging by the megabyte or eliminating unlimited data plans.

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Romantic activities for couples on a rainy day

Many relationships suffer from both parties allowing the routine home responsibilities to overwhelm their love life; being too busy to nurture their love and to make time for each other. This is most noticeable among people who have been together for a long time.

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MECCA — The Saudi government might manage the hajj, but the people who make it run for two million or more pilgrims are a handful of old Mecca families who monopolize the muttawif or hajj guide business. __________

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Oh la! This could get bloody! Murdoch resents Google skimming advertising money from people when sending them on to News Corp sources.

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A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles

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Health Care, the Public Option, Monopoly, and WalMart: Predatory Pricing From People Who Do Not Believe In Our Free Market System

What do WalMart and Target have in common with the public option on health care? For the answer to that, you have to look at the antitrust laws, and the theory of monopoly, predatory practices in a free market system.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J.

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The law, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, is often cited by Mr. Reid and other critics of the health insurance industry as a reason why coverage can be so expensive for many people. They say the law allows insurers to monopolize markets and fix prices in ways that are usually illegal.

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Know why the Monopoly winner's prize money was $20,580? Check it out!

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As the Four Horsemen of America's financial apocalypse—Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Bernacke—and their aider and abettor foot soldiers in the Democrat Congress shovel money into failing enterprises and pet organizations, run colossal deficits, borrow from Chang to pay Pedro, debase …

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Since 1945, the McCarran-Ferguson Act has given the states the authority to regulate insurance companies rather than the federal government.

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As pressure from AT&T, Verizon competitors builds...

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MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan says the efforts of some congresspeople to kill the public health care option and limit access to the proposed health care exchange system is a sign that Congress is defending the "corporate communism" of the health care industry.

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Tired of the political wailing that passes for discourse here on the vine? Well here is a great story about how the game Monopoly became deadly serious for British and American POW's in Europe during WWII.

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For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields.

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Google is to team up with one of the world's biggest board game manufacturers to create an online version of Monopoly.

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HMOs, the health care crisis, strip mining, robber barons, deforestation, SUVs, "global warming", world hunger, unemployment, inflation, periodic recession/depression...what all have in common is that Big Government is the cause, but your economic freedom is blamed.

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Is the US a Super Fragile Capitolistic Are We That Atrosious Country?

If you can pronounce this, then maybe you can understand what the United States has become. This Country was once know for its citizens being allowed to achieve the American Dream.

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A Michigan man who just wanted to take a walk on the Boardwalk instead skipped right past Go and off to jail last week.

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A friendly game of Monopoly turned ugly when a Fraser man hit a friend in the side of the head and knocked her off a chair, knocking off her glasses, when she refused to sell him Boardwalk and Park Place, Fraser police said.

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The American Dental Association whines about being left out of the Healthcare Reform process but they've been fighting and making things difficult for Dental Hygienists, Denturists and Dental Health Aide Therapists, even to the point of having Denturists prosecuted for providing  …

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Open Letter to The Monopolistic Monster AT&T Has Become

You should be so, so ashamed of what you have turned into.

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The American Dental Association whines about being left out of the Healthcare Reform process but they've been fighting and making things difficult for Dental Hygienist, Denturist and Dental Health Aide Therapist, to the point of having Denturist prosecuted for providing affordab …

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