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ALBANY—More lower income families would be eligible for the Family Health Plus program by removing depreciation of business assets from income eligibility calculations under legislation passed by the state Senate and sent to the Assembly.
“Programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus have kept hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers healthy by making insurance [...]

Let’s take a family of four, the Joneses, from Llantwit Major, in the Vale of Glamorgan, with two young children who prefer to take their break in the school holidays.
They are a fairly typical middle-income Welsh couple with conventional holiday preferences. They’ll want somewhere within easy reach of the beach for their children, but without [...]

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) — British American Tobacco Plc, the
maker of Lucky Strikes, agreed to buy most of Skandinavisk
Tobakskompagni A/S for $4.1 billion, gaining 60 percent of the
market for cigarettes in Scandinavia.
BAT [...]

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) — Bayer AG, the German drugs and
chemicals maker, said fourth-quarter profit fell 78 percent and
forecast the slowest sales growth since 2004 as the plastics unit
struggles with higher oil prices and the slowing U.S. economy.
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NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Apartment owner AvalonBay
Communities Inc (AVB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) reported lower-than-expected quarterly
funds from operations (FFO) on Wednesday because of a charge
related to an expense for abandoned projects.
Fourth-quarter FFO — a performance measure for real [...]