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1. Large-cap growth stocks: The sweet spot?
(Money/Economy)

... outperforming growth, he said, "the pendulum may be reversing course." (Value stocks seem like bargains, growth stocks are the favorites.) Particularly attractive, he went on, are "large-cap multinational ...

2. No thanks for the giving
(Life/Style)

... Or with Rob. Or with Rob's daughter, who is an artist. But Dylan's Candy Bar and Serendipity were the bargain. After searching for a few missing relatives in the Whitney, we find them on the second floor ...

3. 144,000 New Jersey small businesses alerted to new health care tax credit
(Money/Economy)

... Care Act is designed to help level the playing field by lowering costs for small businesses and increasing their bargaining power. At the same time, small business owners will have the flexibility to make ...

4. Camden’s massive layoffs cause concern for public safety
(N.J./State)

...  Some blamed council and Mayor Dana Redd for the situation. Others criticized six bargaining units they believe could make concessions to reduce the 383 layoffs called for to close a $26.5-million budget ...

5. N.J. lawmakers need to reform affordable housing, arbitration and civil service rules before year ends
(Opinion/Commentary)

... a state-mandated process for settling collective bargaining disputes between local governments and police and fire employee unions. When a town or other public employer can't reach a contract agreement ...

6. New Jersey officials, environmentalists rewarded with Obama’s offshore drilling ban
(U.S./Nation)

... that area had been put off limits until 2022 in a deal that opened other parts of the Gulf to increased drilling. Obama's surrender of a key bargaining chip helped kill action on energy policy in the ...

7. Thinking of buying a foreclosure bargain in New Jersey?
(Money/Economy)

BY GERALD J. ROBINSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Say you're a renter now and want to buy a home. With all the foreclosures on the market and reduced prices, can you get a great bargain now? There's no ...

8. Martha Stewart’s gardener to host a fittingly uncommon open house at Atlock Farm in Somerset
(Life/Style)

... wait for Father's Day for equivalent seasonal bargains. Atlock stays open through December 23, and between then and April 1, it's by appointment only. Coleus and tomato events mark the summer season, supplemented ...

9. Journalist Sarah Palin should ask why TV money will fund an NFL lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... The 2011 season rights fees will go into the owners' war chest in the battle with the players; and because of that the owners will have an enormous edge over the players in the bargaining talks, as they ...

10. Black Friday sales in New Jersey
(Life/Style)

... opportunities to do so. The Daily Record reports at Rockaway Townsquare, prime parking spot real estate filled up as bargain hunters waited in line for doors that had yet to open. Their mall officially ...

11. Another chance: A vision for New Jersey higher education
(Opinion/Commentary)

... bargaining reform. Legislation on these matters is pending and should be acted upon as soon as possible. But New Jersey can no longer afford incremental change in higher education support and productivity. ...

12. Vince Lombardi's players don't have a seat at the NFL lockout talks
(Sports/Professional)

... Players Association are facing a March 3, 2011 deadline to get a new collective bargaining deal done. The prevailing thinking is that once the present collective bargaining agreement expires, the NFL owners ...

13. Politics of a potential NFL lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... — a good many of them who have pre-existing conditions could be scrambling for health care. The NFL plans to use health care as a bargaining tool to get an agreement. The league issued this statement ...

14. Chris Christie made 2010 the Year of the Governor in N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

... be an influential presence when the bargaining begins in earnest over the national ticket. As euphoric as this year has been for Christie, 2011 will be considerably more challenging. The "sell by" date ...

15. Is nuclear power facing a reversal of fortune?
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... interested would have to do their own inspections, of course, to see what needs to be done to run the plant profitably. But the bargaining will now all be on one side. Entergy doesn't have any leverage. ...

16. How DeMaurice Smith can wreak havoc on a NFL lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... Association are about ready to face off in a much bigger game than the Super Bowl. The league's collective bargaining agreement with the players nearly ends after the NFL Pro Bowl in Hawaii in February. ...

17. Christie skipping League of Municipalities convention next week in Atlantic City
(N.J./State)

... compare services and look for the best bargains on behalf of their property taxpayers. Also on Wednesday, Anzaldi, state Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, state Community Affairs Commissioner Lori Grifa, ...

18. Sound higher ed policy better than cheap toolkit gimmicks
(Opinion/Commentary)

... to decimate collective bargaining. Greer suggests that New Jersey's higher education fiscal woes are inextricably linked to labor costs. Grabbing a page from Governor Christie's playbook, Greer would ...

19. What legislative history can teach us about Obamacare
(Opinion/Commentary)

... employees to self-organize into unions and bargain collectively. The NIRA was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935 in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (295 US 495 (1935)). ...

20. N.J. Turnpike Authority cuts employee perks and benefits
(N.J./State)

... employees of unused sick and vacation time; future increases in longevity payments to non-bargaining employees for years of service, and separation payments made to non-bargaining employees who retire ...