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...Regulators should scrutinize the proposed merger but should be skeptical of the critics' claims. (Disclosure: The Washington Post Co. has interests in broadcast and cable television, including NBC affiliates, and businesses that depend on the...

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Media-backed sites now include classified ads

...com) and Cars.com (http://www.cars.com). Major media companies, including the Tribune Co. and the Washington Post Co., founded the network in late 1997 to protect the $15-billion, classified-advertising market from erosion...

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Tech
E-classes serve millions, off campus and on

...online in 1998. The Los Angeles-based school is owned by educational services firm Kaplan Inc., a division of The Washington Post Co. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has expressed concern about the concept this way: "I am uneasy...

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Names and faces

...condition following surgery after tumbling on a walkway. The 84-year-old chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Co. was in Sun Valley to attend a business conference and fell Saturday afternoon on a path outside a condominium...

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What
Washington Post chairman, author Katherine Graham dies

...Katharine Graham, who served as chairman of The Washington Post Co. for two decades as it blossomed from a mediocre...served as chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Co. Just three years ago, she won the Pulitzer Prize...

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What
Katharine Graham

...work force after the death of her husband. Although born to a privileged family, she was thrust into leading the Washington Post Co. with little preparation or business experience when her husband committed suicide. Despite initially being ill...

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Opinion
Lack of stringent standards for stock-option pricing makes earnings' manipulation easy

...putting pressure on companies to change their ways. Already, well-known companies including Amazon.com Inc., The Washington Post Co. and General Motors Corp. have said they will alter their policies. But many major technology companies are...

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News
AOL gives heave-ho to pop-up ads

...company still plans to use pop-ups to promote some its own products, though those ads will be curbed as well. (The Washington Post Co. also serves pop-ups to visitors to its Web site). "There is going to be an across-the-board reduction...

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Tech
Services help social networks get connected

...get local business listings; both companies are owned by Barry Diller's InterActive Corp. (Diller serves on The Washington Post Co.'s board.) Evite's makeover is part of its drive to become the Internet's Union Station of social planning...

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Tech
Pass the shield law

...in open court. Overall, this bill would be an advancement in safeguarding the work of journalists. Thats why The Washington Post Co. and other media organizations have lobbied hard to get the Free Flow of Information Act passed. The Senate should...

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