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Dubbed the "no vacation nation," the United States lags behind most other developed countries when it comes to vacation days. But Americans don’t seem to mind.
Most workers don’t use all their vacation days in the first place.

About 57% of working Americans had unused vacation time at the end of 2011, and most of them […]

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Asian stocks plunged Friday after discouraging U.S. economic reports unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country eurozone.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 plummeted 2.4 percent to 8,660.23, as a strengthening yen battered the country’s behemoth export sector.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 2.1 percent to 18,802.45 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 2.2 percent to 4,064.40.
South Korea’s […]

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A state board gave a green light Tuesday to $1.55 million in bonds to help finance Zoltek’s new plant in St. Peters.
The Missouri Development Finance Board gave preliminary approval to the bonds, part of $15.5 million that the carbon-fiber-maker is cobbling together to buy and renovate a 130,000 square-foot building on Geunther Blvd. Other incentives […]

ST. LOUIS • Funeral services are pending for Rick Desloge, who spent nearly three decades as a journalist with the St. Louis Business Journal.
The Business Journal says Desloge died Monday, about a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 63.
Desloge began at the Business Journal in 1984 and continued working until recently. […]

JPMorgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street after the bank lost $2 billion in a trading blunder, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.
The bank will accept the resignation of Ina Drew, its chief investment officer, the person told The Associated Press, speaking on […]

A fire caused by explosions in one of the world’s largest petrochemical industrial estates have killed 12 and injured more than 100 people in eastern Thailand.
The Saturday blaze forced an evacuation of workers and more than 1,000 residents near the Map Ta Phut industrial estate, Thailand’s largest industrial park, in Rayong province, 180 kilometers (110 […]

ST. LOUIS • The Rams’ plan to renovate the Edward Jones Dome is signed, sealed, delivered — but not yours to see.
The Rams and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission, the public agency that operates the Dome, are not releasing the team’s proposal, even though taxpayers would likely fund the bulk of the improvements.
Officials […]

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered.
Speaking softly, deliberately and with dry humor, Murdoch parried one question after the other about the influence his dominant media operations had in […]

Asian stock markets sank Monday as Europe’s debt crisis threatened to intensify again while growth in China slowed.
Japan’s Nikkei slid 1.4 percent to 9,505.27, bruised by a higher yen and an announcement Thursday by electronics and video gaming giant Sony Corp. that it would slash 10,000 jobs.
South Korea’s Kospi was 0.9 percent lower at 1,991.56 […]

Aegion Corp. said Thursday that a subsidiary, United Pipeline Systems, had entered a joint venture with Special Technical Services LLC to provide pipeline-lining services in the Middle East.
United Pipeline owns 51 percent of the joint venture, Aegion said. The venture, established in Oman, will provide pipeline, piping and flow line high-density polyethylene lining services in […]