Federal Mine (Stock Trading) Agency Considers New Rules To Improve Safety
Federal Mine Agency Considers New Rules To Improve Safety
After one of the deadliest months for coal mining in years, federal mine regulators last week began formally considering safety improvements to help miners survive underground fires and explosions. Among the proposals: mandatory caches of oxygen tanks and breathing masks inside every coal mine.
Joby Warrick
In Calif., Internal Lawsuits Served Up at Burger Chain
LOS ANGELES — There's trouble brewing in the best burger chain in the West. From the company that invented the drive-through, canned the carhop and to this day still shuns microwaves, freezers and warming bins, an in-house power struggle is causing consternation among the cognoscenti of a good…
John Pomfret
Controversial Industries Have Backed Boehner
Two controversial industries — for-profit colleges and trade schools, and private student lenders — have been the major sources of financing for Rep. John A. Boehner's bid to become House majority leader. Boehner has been an outspoken advocate for each interest, and has used his chairmanship to…
Thomas B. Edsall
Growth in 4th Quarter Reached a 3-Year Low
The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the last three months of 2005 to the weakest pace in three years, as consumers, businesses and government all pulled back on spending, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, raising concerns about the strength of the expansion this election year.
Nell Henderson
Savings Rate at Lowest Level Since 1933
WASHINGTON — Americans' personal savings rate dipped into negative territory in 2005, something that hasn't happened since the Great Depression. Consumers depleted their savings to finance the purchases of cars and other big-ticket items.
MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Taming the Predators
The practice of predatory lending strips billions of dollars in home equity from low-income and minority consumers each year, according to the Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization.
Michelle Singletary
Amid Katrina's Ruins, Black Colleges Survive
NEW ORLEANS — Dillard University is just a quarter of a mile from one of the canal breaches that flooded this city. With the exception of the chapel, every building on the campus of the historically black college was inundated by two to five feet of water that poured in and stood for three weeks….
Julia Cass
Make 'em Provide Pensions
The long-predicted ice age is settling in on America's private pension system, as companies large and small, profitable and unprofitable, announce the freezing of their traditional plans, the kind that once promised a lifetime income for retirees.
Albert B. Crenshaw
Jury Chosen for Lay, Skilling
Former Enron executives' trial, which starts Tuesday, caps an era of corporate scandal.
Carrie Johnson
Lazear Tapped to Lead President's Economic Council
President Bush plans to nominate Stanford University business professor Edward P. Lazear, a specialist in workplace issues, to become chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the White House announced yesterday.
Nell Henderson
The Face of Giant's Comeback Strategy
Andrea Astrachan walked the aisles of the Giant Food store in Columbia Heights on a recent morning, taking notes and shaking hands with everyone from store managers to cashiers.
Ylan Q. Mui