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Folks in Allendale don't have extra money to spend. So the town's already meager tax base is eroding. If any of Allendale's 38 employees leaves, there will be no replacement. Jackson's dreams of a new police station are dashed. Now, he fears many of the remaining residents will leave. The other day, he showed up in town with two employment applications to cut grass at a nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale...
...workers are blaming the firm's creditors for dragging their feet and pushing GM closer to bankruptcy. On the one side is a group that wants its money back and on the other are the people who worked on the assembly line for decades and don't want to spend their golden years without healthcare or a pension...
...part of the Google results that are important is that the company's revenue compared to last year shows how quickly relatively successful businesses replace failing ones in a marketing system where the bidding for space goes on 24/7 and 365 days a year. If financial services companies are spending 50% less on Google, then some other industries are spending much more. If car firms have withdrawn all of their advertising budgets then companies that provide help to people with too much debt must have stepped up what they spend...
...Dalai Lama will visit the Boston area at the end of April, and plans to spend two days at Harvard during his stay. Harvard faculty and staff have been preparing for the Dalai Lama’s visit on April 30th for the past year, according to Lobsang Sangay, a research fellow at Harvard Law School who served as the coordinator of the Dalai Lama’s visit to New England. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, will spend his time in the area giving talks and participating in conferences. He has travelled to Harvard twice in the past...
...given the cash even the clumsier tourists are bringing. Some estimate that mainland guests could inject over $200 million a year into Taiwan's tourism industry. Tourism bureau official Philip Chao says the Chinese are pretty big spenders, averaging nearly $300 a day, just shy of the Japanese who spend over $300. And, he says, tourism is the ideal starting point to renew mutual understanding. At the Sun Yat Sen Memorial gift shop, the clerk who encounters many Chinese tourists during her day there described the mood to be like a family reunion. "We should have done this a long...