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The Motley Fool September 17, 2009 Rich Smith	UPS: United Printing Service? Any time FedEx makes a pricing move, you can be sure UPS will follow. Now, UPS follows FedEx into the printing business.
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Entrepreneur February 2005 C.J. Prince	New Way to 7(a) With no more federal subsidy, entrepreneurs are uncertain about the future of small-business loans.
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Inc. August 2003 Bobbie Gossage	SBA Finds Another Billion for Loans The Small Business Administration has created an additional $1.4 billion in lending authority.
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The Motley Fool December 30, 2009 Rich Smith	The Best Stocks for 2010: UPS Brown delivers -- thumbs up for UPS in 2010.
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U.S. Banker June 2007 John Tozzi	Union Bank of Cal's Edge Sharpens Its Diversity Success Taking advantage of a little used Fed exemption, one California bank made 263 loans to minority borrowers last year that would have been denied under the bank's usual lending criteria.
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CFO December 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Small Consolation Despite the lip service paid to the importance of small businesses, efforts to ease their credit woes have come up short.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2008 Christopher G. Hurn	SBA Solutions In the hyper-competitive commercial real estate marketplace, successful brokers and agents can utilize a relatively little-known financing source to help clients secure the ideal property for their needs, the Small Business Administration 504 loan program.
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