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...Burnstein, a screenwriter who teaches in the University of Michigan's Film and Video Studies Program. He grew tired of watching his students decamp for New York City and Los Angeles on graduation. The Michigan Film Commission, of which Burnstein is a member, had been "looking into how to attract Hollywood," he says. "But this wasn't just about bringing money into the state. It was a matter of the taxpayers we were already losing." Tena Constas is one of those prodigal Michiganders, a location scout for Betty Anne Waters who recently moved back after five years in Chicago...
...hope we will continue to have a strong partnership based on mutuality of interest--that we'll be able to attract U.S. investment and that they in turn will be able to benefit from our raw materials. We hope that our success will be seen as one that has been sponsored and supported by this partnership with...
...this more urgent than in the province of Quebec, where Videotron Ltd. has coaxed 850,000 customers away from Bell Canada since launching its cable phone service four years ago. That figure is expected to top 1 million in 2009, driven in part by Videotron's ability to attract subscribers to a discounted triple-play bundle that combines voice, cable and high-speed Internet. "We're prepared to fight for new business," says Robert Depatie, president and CEO of Videotron, a division of multinational media company Quebecor Inc. Videotron plans to roll out a wireless network covering Quebec and parts...
...amazing how a country so small can launch satellites in space and be on the forefront of technology.” Matthew R. Cohen ’11, co-president of Harvard Students for Israel, said he hoped that holding the event on the MAC quad could attract non-Jews to stop by and experience a little bit of the Israeli culture. One non-Jewish attendee, Cecelia A. Raker ’11, said she was there with friends but that she thought it was wonderful to see so many people come together. “[Israel] really is incredible...
...Singapore is no bastion of socialism. But when the country's economic czars began to attract multinational companies like Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Matsushita to locate their manufacturing facilities in Singapore in the 1960s, they tacitly agreed to keep wages for blue-collar workers low by de-fanging the unions that once had a stranglehold over the labor force. As a cargo handler, for instance, Krishnan made just $1,000 a month...