Natural gas prices not quite as cruel as in past winters
Although the cost of wholesale natural gas won't soon return to the relatively cheap prices of the 1980s and 1990s, it's beginning to look as though retail rates this winter for Pennsylvania's 2.5 million gas customers have fallen shy of sky-high prices three years ago. The Associated Press
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Halliburton questions dog White House
Halliburton has reaped the benefits of becoming the premier U.S. company operating within the new Iraq, undertaking at least $7 billion in Pentagon-related work. That work also has put Halliburton in the middle of a political controversy. By STEPHEN J. HEDGES / Chicago Tribune
Realtors say housing bubble isn't strained
True, State College area home prices rose over the past few years, mirroring a national trend. But don't listen for any popping sound. Local Realtors and planners aren't expecting a deflation, despite a report last week in The Wall Street Journal that suggested housing prices in Centre County may have risen to levels that can't be sustained. (
By Chris Rosenblum,
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02/02/2004 03:01 AM EST)
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