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...most recent Federal Reserve survey of loan officers showed a plurality of banks tightening credit standards across the board. Add in anecdotal evidence - like Bank of America declining to increase lending to McDonald's franchisees even though the two companies have a long-standing partnership - and things do seem to be cascading down to Main Street, or whatever road is home to your local fast food joint. In August, 67% of small-business owners said they'd been affected by the credit crunch, compared with 55% in February, according to surveys by the National Small Business Association...
...looking, the space age reached middle age. It?s been 39 years since the first moon landing, 43 since the first spacewalk, 47 since the first human being orbited the Earth. And this week, NASA itself - which was once the last word in moderne - turns 50. That may seem creaky, but the fact is, the space agency has been around a lot longer still...
...Language Monitor, a company that uses quantitative methods to analyze the impact of language on society, are based on the number of times colleges and universities’ names were mentioned in both print and electronic global media over the past nine months. Indicating that prestige and media coverage seem to be correlated, six of the universities on the Global Language Monitor list also made the U.S. News top ten. Global Language Monitor President Paul Payack said yesterday that he expected the popularity of university athletic programs to be a larger factor in his rankings. “The number...
Throughout the course of a year of procrastinatory nighttime runs to CVS, I discovered that many of the evening workers there are Haitian. Coincidentally, so am I. The fact that I have a Haitian grandfather may seem, to some, an odd thing to bond me to the CVS employees. I thought so at first, too. At the beginning of the year, I would grab my soda and poptarts, exchange a brief greeting in French with the cashier, and go back to my dorm and my studies without another thought. Each time I came to CVS, I was struck...
...both depositors and owners of the company's bonds but left shareholders with very little - has left investors guessing about the fate of the rest of the banking world. Hardest hit in today's market sell-off were regional banks like Sovereign Bancorp and National City, perhaps because they seem too small to get special FDIC treatment...