Archive for January, 2010
Retailers are struggling at some older Chandler intersections
Walk-in traffic is down 20 percent at a restaurant at Queen Creek and Alma School roads since the shopping center’s anchor, a Bashas’ supermarket, moved out. Vacant retail buildings stand at Ray and Alma School roads, where the Albertsons supermarket …
Read More..>>Pfizer’s Newest CDO Represents Transferable Talent
How did an established and savvy political strategist move into the role of chief diversity officer at Pfizer, into a job the company places firmly in the HR department? The appointment of Karen Boykin-Towns symbolizes a significant change. ‘The …
Read More..>>Patti Smith interview: ‘I love Portland.”
Seattle, you know, places that were really good book towns … I have such detailed diaries, especially from the Chelsea Hotel days. I have diaries that every day tell the phase of the moon, things like “cut Robert’s hair today,”"chopped my hair …
Read More..>>Knives, Fire, Chaos Don’t Worry Blind Chef
One Chicago Chef can cook up a storm, even though she’s been blind since birth. As Cynthia Bowers reports, this chef does it all while dazzling the best in the business. Famed Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, left, talks to culinary student Laura …
Read More..>>Heroes of Children’s Hospital
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC Chief Medical Correspondent: For me, the trip to Arkansas Childrens Hospital is a personal journey too. It is here, that fresh out of my residency, I had my first staff job as a surgeon. And it is where the young doctors …
Read More..>>White House Budget Projects Record Deficit
… appropriate amount for a new jobs measure made up of a business tax credit to encourage hiring, increased infrastructure spending and money from the government’s bailout fund to get … trillion over the decade ‘” are raising worries among …
Read More..>>Forex: GBP/USD consolidates losses and trades at 1.5938
FXstreet.com (Sydney) ‘“ The GBP has continued to weaken against the dollar slipping to 1.5938. The pair had earlier opened at 1.5947 though has been as low as 1.5934. The pair has since been operating within a narrow margin around 1.5942/44. The …
Read More..>>How Paulson’s People Colluded With Goldman to Destroy AIG And Get A …
Too Big To Fail is revelatory, though not in the way Andrew Ross Sorkin intended. The book offers startling evidence that Hank Paulson and his deputies colluded with Goldman to create a liquidity crisis at AIG, and to manipulate the government …
Read More..>>Air marshals say system a complete failure, another 9/11 could happen
Tampa, Florida — When planes take off in America, it is the job of the Federal Air Marshals to make sure terrorist don’t take over a flight and create a repeat of 9/11. While the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it is working great …
Read More..>>When the race resumes Part 3: Recession gives environment a break, but …
Decades ago, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island were farming communities, where cows, not tourists, frequently waded into local waters, says Nancy Schilling of local environmental education group Friends of the Rivers. Then came shopping centers and …
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