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Archive for January 4th, 2006
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Happy New Year: We're out of here! By Steve Sebelius If Goldy thinks he's paying too much for our free blog now, wait until he hears this: We're taking a mini-vacation! It turns out that the bean counters in our corporate overlords' human resource department have discovered that we at Various Things & Stuff have amassed too much vacation time. And that means forced vacation, [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Media makes fiasco of miners' plight By Len Butcher It is hard to imagine the media hitting even new lows, but what they did yesterday was inexcusable. As millions of viewers watched the news and families gathered to get word of the 13 trapped West Virginia miners, television reporters, and then newspapers, shouted out that the miners had been found alive. Try to imagine [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Boyd joins the upper echelon By Ian Mylchreest Boyd Gaming made its long anticipated announcement about creating its own luxury megaresort, reports the Gaming Wire. The company will close the Stardust and demolish it in 2007 to build a $4 billion complex of hotels to be named "Echelon Place."
The resort will include 5,300 hotel rooms, 1 million square feet of meeting and convention [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Fed set to end rate hikes - maybe By Ian Mylchreest In the never-ending business of reading the mind of the Fed, the latest signs are that the central bank is about to end its ratcheting up of interest rates, reports the New York Times.
"Given the information now in hand, the number of additional firming steps required probably would not be large," the summary of [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Walgreen profit jumps By Ian Mylchreest It often looks like Walgreen has a drug store on every corner in the valley but the profits came home to roost yesterday when the company announced a 5 percent jump in profit. The boost came mainly from the sale of generic drugs, reports the Associated Press.
The company said it earned $345.6 million in the [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 New men's salon coming to town By Ian Mylchreest The buzz about metrosexuals is a bit old but American Male, a national chain of men's salons is set to open its 15th store in Las Vegas next month, reports the Associated Press. The chain caters to men who want manicures and hair coloring but don't want to sit in a traditional beauty salon.
Sales of [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Companies face fewer suits in 2005 By Ian Mylchreest Business groups routinely criticize the number of lawsuits they face but a new study shows that things may be getting better. The stock market was much less volatile last year than it has been in recent years and a new study shows that there were fewer securities class-action lawsuits, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Vineyards not damaged by storms By Ian Mylchreest Wine lovers can rest easy. "Massive winter storms made a mess in California's wine country, but the rains weren't expected to wash out the region's valuable grape crop," reports the Associated Press.
There was plenty of mud and debris but the vines are dormant for the winter. More importantly, the 2005 harvest is already in.
Industry spokesmen [...]
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