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...there is one Olympic city for Chicago to emulate, it would be Atlanta. The city's $1.7 billion privately funded Summer Games in 1996 sparked a construction boom in the city's downtown core and, according to the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, generated $5 billion in economic activity, including $1.8 billion in hotel, residential and commercial construction. What's more, the city found long-term uses for its Olympic venues, 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...
...report, released on Wednesday by the Center for Audit Quality in Washington, is based on a late-summer survey of 1,000 individual investors who had at least $10,000 invested in the market. A majority of investors - 73% of those surveyed - have either some, quite a bit, or a great deal of confidence in the capital markets. That's up from 70% from a year ago, but still below confidence levels of 84% in 2007. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...Fornelli notes that the 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...
...next fall, the job hunt began in earnest. Murray landed three interviews in Washington and three summer job offers that would likely result in a full time offer...
Murray is one of the few still falling snugly into the mold that has characterized the recruiting process for decades earlier. Just one semester into his first year, Murray entered into the competitive process of applying and interviewing for summer internships...