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...Many residents are shaking their heads at the continuing revelations, which come as Palm Beach County's real estate values have plummeted, foreclosures have soared, tourism has stagnated and nonprofits brace for the fallout from all the wealthy benefactors who were Madoff victims. Said former Boca Raton Mayor Steve Abrams, who has known McCarty for 20 years and is seeking to fill her vacancy: "Never a dull moment in Palm Beach County. It all seems to have come about ever since our infamous 2000 election. Maybe that cursed us or branded us as a notorious county...
...Brace yourself. Recently booted M.B.A.s are already out there flooding the market with applications. Heidrick & Struggles, a Chicago-based executive-recruiting firm, is receiving 50% more unsolicited contacts from those seeking high-end jobs than in previous years, says Jory Marino, who heads the firm's North American office. And in case it's not painfully obvious, says Mickey Matthews, who directs North American operations for Stanton Chase International, a global executive-search firm based in Dallas, "the supply-demand imbalance certainly favors employers...
...obstacle was not an opposing player, but instead something much more innocuous—his back. Magnarelli suffered a stress-fractured vertebra and was placed into a back brace...
...make an appearance on the court for most of the year, until, due to injuries to several of his teammates, he had to play the last nine games of the year in the highly-restricting brace...
...retailers brace for penny-pinching shoppers this holiday season, they're hoping their websites can deliver some good news. At the very least, the Internet should outdo the sidewalk in delivering sales growth: holiday forecasts predict zero to 2.2% overall sales gains for November and December, according to respective estimates by Bain & Co. and the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world's largest retail trade association. By comparison, online retail sales are expected to grow 12%, to $44 billion, according to Forrester Research...