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The head of a Princeton payroll and credit-card-payments firm and the chief executive officer of a Wayne specialty-pharmaceutical company were each named "CEO of the Year" last night at the annual Eastern Technology Council's Enterprise Awards event.
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch installed his own leadership team at Dow Jones & Co. yesterday, a week before his acquisition of the company is expected to close. He also tapped his son James as heir apparent to his media empire, News Corp.
WASHINGTON - The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell last week by the largest amount in three months.
It's a larger part of executive compensation locally than stocks. And it bucks a national trend.
Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corp.'s chairman, chief executive officer and president, topped the executive-compensation chart, earning $27.5 million in 2006 - more than any other executive of any company with a major presence in the region.
Accusing trade unions of standing in the way of minority hiring objectives, City Council yesterday declared the $700 million Convention Center expansion open to nonunion contractors and workers - an unprecedented gesture in a city dominated by organized labor.
Employment in the five-county Philadelphia-area is more highly concentrated in the healthcare practitioner, technical and business, and financial services industries than the rest of the nation, according to government figures released today.
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