Abstract: Interactive constraint systems often suffer from infeasibility (no solution) due to conflicting user constraints. A common approach to recover feasibility is to eliminate the constraints ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices rose a hotter-than-expected 0.5% in December. Ticker: Spirit Airlines climbing out of bankruptcy; FedEx wants Trump tariff refund Russia opens criminal ...

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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices increased by the most in five months in December amid some pass-through from import tariffs, suggesting inflation could pick up in the months ahead ...

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Lisa Rosenthal's career gives you a sense of the scope of the watchdog duties at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. For 13 years as an attorney there, she helped victims of predatory payday ...