Felix, Meet Oscar! (The New York Observer)
“This is Manhattan—people have always done whatever it takes to live here,” said Daniel Baum, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Real Estate Group New York. Sacrificing comfort and personal space is an old exercise for most people living in Manhattan, especially for creative-class types or aspiring artists. For the past few years, living with any degree of comfort in Manhattan ...
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State of the City address (Connecticut Post)
Good evening. As I am sure you are all painfully aware, we live in very challenging times for anyone who manages a budget, whether it's a head of household, president of a company or a mayor.
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From economic development to car repairs, streets affect city (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
Karen Kraus had just a day and a half to find a place to live after she found out she would be going to work for Aurora Health Care in Oshkosh.
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Keeping up appearances in the credit crunch (CNN)
So the credit crunch means this year's six-figure bonus has been put on hold, but you still need to keep up appearances at the country club -- what to do? Why not join the growing number of people who are choosing to rent, rather than buy, life's little luxuries?
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Brazil Scraps Bond Sale as Real Sinks to Two-Year Low (Update4) (Bloomberg)
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil canceled a local bond sale for the first time in seven months, a sign the global credit crisis is beginning to squeeze the finances of Latin American countries.
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Arizona State University Recognizes American Traffic Solutions as a Spirit of Enterprise Award Winner (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----The W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University's Spirit of Enterprise Center named Scottsdale-based American Traffic Solutions as its winner of the Emerging Entrepreneur Award.
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Carnival Corporation & plc's Puerta Maya Cruise Center in Cozumel Set to Re-open Oct. 16 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Carnival Corporation & plc's pier at Puerta Maya in Cozumel, Mexico -- closed since being damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 -- will officially re-open when the 2,052-passenger Carnival Ecstasy and 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy visit the facility on Thursday, Oct. 16.
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Buzz: Broker sees hope for Stillwater in economic crisis (The Record Searchlight)
The broker marketing Stillwater Business Park is in town.John Troughton, hired last spring to sell the $70 million public project to corporate America, will be at Tuesday's Redding City Council meeting. There he will help city of Redding Economic Development Director Jim Zauher give a Stillwater update.
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
The 400 block of Elm Street (east bound lane) will be closed between 7:30 a.m. today until approximately Wednesday, Oct. 8, for sanitary sewer flow monitoring station access modifications.
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Ivy League School Goes IPTV (MultiChannel News)
Starting next year, students at Brown University in Providence, R.I., will experience campus life without conventional broadcast and cable TV, when the campus shuts down its cable plant. Instead, the students will rely solely on Internet-protocol television to get their network fixes.
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