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...broad unrest in the Muslim world and perhaps threaten oil supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going to want to spend money...
...wanted to wait and figure out how we could have a maximum impact based on our limited resources,” said Cardullo’s owner Frank Cardullo. “We are just beginning to see where the need is greatest, and then we will be able to best determine what a small business like us can do to help...
...Bruins have not made the playoffs in consecutive seasons. To put that in perspective, the Bruins made the playoffs every year from 1968-1996. That’s 29 straight seasons with a playoff appearance. The team’s recent absence in postseason play is directly related to owner Jeremy Jacobs’ stranglehold on the team’s budget. His reluctance to spend money has resulted in a drastic fall-off in production. If things could not get any worse, Jacobs is now a leading candidate to become the new owner...
...globe who have swiftly denounced the attack.) The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported that one of the hijackers who rented a furnished apartment felt ambivalently about pictures of women in bathing suits at the furnished apartment he rented. "I had some pictures of 1920s women, says the apartment owner, Richard Surma. They were holding umbrellas and wearing long pantaloons. They were covered 75 percent, but their knees were showing. They covered every single picture on the wall," said the apartment owner. "They put towels over them to cover them up completely. I don't know why that bothered them...
Elsewhere in the U.S., several apparent backlash attacks and threats have been reported against people of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent. In Mesa, Ariz., an Indian immigrant gas station owner was shot to death and a Lebanese-American clerk was targeted—but not injured—by gunfire at another gas station. In Seattle, an armed man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a mosque...