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Motivation is their business at MotivAction of Plymouth
The recession is over. Just ask the folks at MotivAction, which helps companies pump up workforce motivation with incentive programs that drive sales, improve service and make customers happy. MotivAction, which has been in business since 1976, has added 15 new clients in each of the last two years while revenues increased by 17 percent in both 2011 and 2012. "We’re mostly a ...
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Legal Aid fights to close the justice gap for societys most vulnerable
Cathy Haukedahl, a veteran Minnesota deputy attorney general and business lawyer at Felhaber, Larson, Fenlon & Vogt, was a longtime volunteer at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid before she joined the nonprofit as deputy director in 2002. She was named executive director in 2011. She’s spent a lot of time at the Minnesota Legislature recently, lobbying for more funding for an agency ...
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The skinny on who’s back in NYC
Why slave away at the gym when you can go to Club Fed and melt the pounds away like Danielle Chiesi?The 47-year-old equities analyst, who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in history’s biggest insider-trading case, is back in town, looking fit and trim.The newly svelte Chiesi was transferred to a federal halfway house in the Bronx last week after serving only 15 months at a West Virginia ...
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Fed up with ben
"We don’t have to worry about a recession - we are in a depression," says James Rickards."If you take the classic definition of a sustained, long-term downturn with economic growth below trend, then we are in the midst of a depression," says the senior managing director of Tangent Capital and author of "Currency Wars."Rickards doesn’t see Fed Chairman ...
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AF takes hit on fat
is a rude man. But is he simply rude and crude, or is he rude and shrewd?The 69-year-old preppy clothier last week shrugged off an old quote he gave to Salon.com."Candidly, we go after the cool kids," he told the blog in 2006. "A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."Jeffries said the quote, which ...
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Big Apple is hard on small startups
"If you can make it here . . ."That’s the refrain of small businesses trying to make a go of it in the Big Apple.But according to recent polls looking at entrepreneurship, there are many huge hurdles facing small startups, starting with a state and local tax rate of almost 16 percent, compared with the US average of 6.8 percent."While sales in New York are higher than in ...
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FreedomFest returning to Alcoa
While the city's recession-strapped budget dictated that city leaders cancel the event several years ago, a new partnership with Alcoa, Inc., is helping bring it back for its 32nd year, according to a city of Alcoa news ...
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An Independent Scotland More Vulnerable to Financial Shocks - UK Treasury
An independent Scotland would have an exceptionally large banking sector, compared with the size of the rest of its economy, making it vulnerable to financial shocks and putting Scottish taxpayers at significant risk in the event of the country being hit by another banking crisis, the U.K. Treasury said Sunday.In an analysis paper, the third in a series the U.K. government is releasing ahead of ...
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Video Final countdown to record Powerball jackpot
Excitement is growing as the drawing nears for the record-setting Powerball jackpot. Carter Evans reports from California, the latest player to join the multi-state lottery, where residents are buying up 10,000 tickets every ...
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Hamish McRae Share price increase shows Lloyds Bank is healing – but only just
One of the country's most respected financial journalists and commentators Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press ...
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One tax law for us and another for Amazon | Nick Cohen
On the edge of Rugeley stands Amazon's largest distribution centre in Britain. Life for the workers who trudge around the 800,000 sq ft warehouse is not as bad as it was for the men who once worked in the pits of the Staffordshire coalfield, but that is not saying much. They must carry satnavs, which direct their movements round the stacks and flash warnings from managers to stop dawdling ...
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UK exporters whistle up success in a thriving new market America
When the New York Philharmonic needed cuckoo and nightingale sounds for a performance of Haydn's Toy Symphony, it was a whistle factory in Birmingham that took the call.Acme Whistles dispatched the various bird call whistles from its factory in Birmingham's jewellery quarter. It was one of the more unusual deliveries from what has become a multimillion-pound US order book for the ...
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If everyone knew the oil market was open to rigging why did no one act
petrol companies a clean bill of health after a cursory examination barely four months ago, the competition authorities in Brussels have just knocked down the corporate doors in their first move on alleged market ...
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Should John Humphrys have won an award for savaging his own boss
BBC mandarin too mighty to escape a Humphing good towsing. You don't get much more independent and award-worthy than that.Which is what the judges obviously thought. Any alternative? Just, perhaps, that it's slightly odd to bestow such accolades for unseating a boss who hadn't done anything much wrong except fail to get a grip on swift-moving events in his earliest weeks in office ...
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Amazons tax arrangements are nothing short of a work of art. Bravo
Amazon has come in for plenty of stick for paying so little tax in the UK. But its actions display such impish wit that it's hard not to revel in the majesty of a terrible thing well ...
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Three reasons why the US got itself out of an economic mess
America's economic structure, its leaders' ability to make rapid political decisions and cultural memories of the Great Depression have been the engine of its ...
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Fury at corporate tax avoidance leads to call for a global response
Anger over the financial affairs of multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks is gathering momentum in Westminster. Now the UK is poised to lead the debate about international tax reform at next month's G8 ...
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Android has become a hedge against Microsoft and Windows
(Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Hewlett-Packard rolled out another Android device this week. This could become a pattern as PC makers hedge against a world that's less about Microsoft and more about Google. On Tuesday, the largest PC maker in the world -- a dubious distinction these days ...
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UPDATE 1-US judge revives Dexias mortgage lawsuit vs JPMorgan
May 17 (Reuters) - A federal judge has revived a closely watched lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co of misleading Belgian-French bank Dexia SA into buying more than $1.6 billion of troubled mortgage ...
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Business Board seeks to sweeten coffee farmers earnings
Coffee stakeholders are working on strategies to enhance the industry competitiveness by expanding the market share locally and internationally. The key strategy involves merging of primary coffee societies into giant cooperative institutions, ...
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Tech fair broadens and brightens seniors world
The 72-year-old Chula Vista resident will soon be able to see her grandchildren in Ohio on a daily basis. She'll be able to comparison shop without leaving her home. And, she will reconnect with old friends all over the country. All these life improvements are thanks to what she learned at Saturday's Technology Fair for the over-50 ...
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Microsoft opens full-line store at Dadeland
Microsoft store manager, Gonzalo Di Paolo, shows off a Surface tablet and colorful keyboard inside the brand new Microsoft retail store that will be opening at the Dadeland Mall on Saturday, May 18, ...
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Yahoo board to meet on $1.1B offer for Tumblr
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is rumored to be planning a Monday announcement, possibly of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr for a reported $1.1 ...
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London bankers plan to dodge new EU crackdown on bonuses
An EU crackdown on bankers' bonuses in the City of London will just lead to a surge in basic salaries and other initiatives to circumvent regulations, experts warned on Saturday.Banks, still unpopular for their leading role in the financial crisis, are keeping their avoidance plans under wraps, but industry figures were happy to boast privately that they could run rings round ...
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At Google we aspire to do the right thing. So we welcome a debate on international tax reform | Eric Schmidt
At a time when families are having to tighten their belts and funding for vital public services is under pressure, corporate taxation is rightly a hot topic. And as a company that has always aspired to do the right thing, we understand why Google is at the centre of that debate. In the interests of moving the argument forward - away from accusation and toward action - here are three principles ...
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Port of Taipei will greatly benefit the city
With the economic growth and development of Taiwan and its capital Taipei have come vast infrastructure challenges, not least of which is the ever-increasing demand for goods and services, which must be imported, requiring larger ports and in greater numbers.
Taiwan is a country that has experienced remarkable growth over the last several centuries since it broke away from the mainland politically and began operating as an independent country. The national capital, Taipei, has been at the centre of this growth, developing the country’s first mass transit system and spearheading economic development throughout the country. Read more
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