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...transferring the Olympic stadium and village to the Atlanta Braves and Georgia State University, respectively. "The Olympics gave Atlanta a tremendous boost in commerce," says Sam Williams, president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. "We become a global city, not just the capital of the South." However, critics say Atlanta got too caught up in the idea of making the Olympics self-funding. As a result, it missed out on state and federal money that could have paid for upgrades to neighborhoods and sewage systems...
...improvement came even though a hoard of bad news shook up the markets between last year's summer survey and this year's fall survey. "Unemployment went up significantly, you had problems with AIG and Lehman Brothers, the stock market went down - so the indicators of the economy got worse and yet confidence has leveled off," she says. Of course, you could also say that the two surveys bridged the worst months of the financial crisis, but it's positive nonetheless that current investor confidence is a tad better than pre-Lehman levels. (See 25 people to blame...
...first couple of minutes, FlyBy was a little anxious: we weren’t really sure why there was a video game demo in place of a medical drama involving a misanthropic doctor who just got out of rehab. But don’t worry! All’s well...
...what the President has done here is not to dis [General McChrystal], but he's saying, 'Look, my responsibility is not just to win military battles, but to see that at least it's something bigger ... for ourselves and our security and for the people of Afghanistan. And I got to decide whether we got a partner there,' which means there has to be a functioning Afghan government...
...Drogheda's hotels and restaurants and says business has been "very tough" in the past year. "People may be unhappy with the government, but to punish them in the Lisbon vote would be the wrong thing to do. Being a member of the euro [currency zone] is what's got us through the crisis so far. I can't see Ireland surviving alone." (See 10 things you didn't know about money...