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Airline raises fare $580
US Airways is planning to raise the fare between Pittsburgh and another Pennsylvania city by $580 come January. The move, which has drawn the ire of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is reportedly the result of another airline’s move.
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Country's cash goes plastic, Canada rolls out new, high-tech $100 bill. Paying with plastic takes on a new meaning today as the Bank of Canada rolls out new $100 bills to replace the cotton-paper blend note.
The $100 is Canada's first polymer bank note and features a wealth of anti-counterfeiting features such as partially-hidden numbers.
The bill also includes a large, transparent window, transparent text, a metallic portrait, raised ink and a frosted maple leaf window.
The $100s feature two portraits of prime minister Robert Borden and an image of a researcher at a microscope and a depiction of DNA.
The $50 polymer note will follow next March.
The rest of the plastic money will be in circulation by the end of 2013.
A focus group took a close look at the $100 bill earlier this year and saw several offbeat images the designers didn't count on.
Some in the group mistook a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy.
Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body. +Mexico Australia plastic bills, canada plastic $100 bills,
Others looked into the port holes of a famed Canadian icebreaker and saw a skull and crossbones staring back at them.
The $100 is Canada's first polymer bank note and features a wealth of anti-counterfeiting features such as partially-hidden numbers.
The bill also includes a large, transparent window, transparent text, a metallic portrait, raised ink and a frosted maple leaf window.
The $100s feature two portraits of prime minister Robert Borden and an image of a researcher at a microscope and a depiction of DNA.
The $50 polymer note will follow next March.
The rest of the plastic money will be in circulation by the end of 2013.
A focus group took a close look at the $100 bill earlier this year and saw several offbeat images the designers didn't count on.
Some in the group mistook a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy.
Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body. +Mexico Australia plastic bills, canada plastic $100 bills,
Others looked into the port holes of a famed Canadian icebreaker and saw a skull and crossbones staring back at them.
LinkedIn ups stakes for IPO
LinkedIn ups stakes for IPO
LinkedIn ups stakes for IPO
LinkedIn says it expects to raise more than it had previously forecast LinkedIn IPO 30 percent more in its initial public offering. The new per-share price range LinkedIn $42 to $45 would value the social networking company LinkedIn at $4.11 billion – many times higher than its 2010 revenue.LinkedIn 17 times 2010 revenue.
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