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...supermarket. Its closure has cost about 400 people their jobs, and effects are rippling out into the community, says Tadayasu Yamamoto, chairman of the Hitachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Shop owners of the nearby shopping arcades are in trouble and so are the consumers," Yamamoto says. "We cannot allow the city's ray of light to be extinguished...
...billion bailout plan is implemented, banks should begin to be able to restructure their balance sheets and regain the capacity to make loans at interest rates that will be attractive at home and abroad. While a U.S. recession looks unavoidable, the stabilization of the financial system should allow a recovery to begin next year. That's good for the dollar...
...client's profit-sharing plan, benefits consultant Ted Benna realized that the code could be used to create an easy, tax-friendly vehicle for employees to save for retirement. The client passed, but the idea took off: there are now more than 65 million 401(k) accounts, which allow participants to invest in stocks and bonds, often with matching funds from employers--all at a lower cost than the pension plans that 401(k)s replaced. The accounts helped spark a financial-industry boom, funneling billions from under retirement savers' mattresses into mutual funds and the stock market...
...shop in KAEC (pronounced cake), and the first 1,500 housing units sold out in days. In early 2009, the first business tenants will move in; the first residents, soon thereafter. The first school is planned to open by the end of next year, which will allow families to move...
...years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous exams. In a nod to states’ rights, the law was written to allow each state to set its own testing standards. As a result, states with relatively easy proficiency tests, such as Wisconsin or Mississippi, had few schools that failed to meet testing standards. States that were hardest hit were those with difficult proficiency tests, like South Carolina, where 83 percent of schools failed...