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Jul31
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A tragic plane crash has claimed the lives of representatives and executives from several companies, as a small jet crashed near the southern Minnesota town of Owatonna. There are at least eight people killed as a result the accident. Some confusion remains to how many people boarded the last stop before the crash, as several passengers were said to have been picked up, but the actual number hasn't been able to be confirmed yet. Crash investigators are still searching to see if there was another passenger on board that hasn't been accounted for yet. AP Photo
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Jul31
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By marching to his own beat, Buffett was able to surpass his competition. He wasn’t afraid to try something new. After all, “if past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”Many people misunderstand...
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Jul30
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With cheesecake slices at the Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ: CAKE) going for up to $6-a-slice, the celebration of National Cheesecake Day gives us cheesecake lovers an opportunity to go get an inexpensive slice of cheesecake at the restaurant. Today slices are...
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Jul29
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S & A Restaurant Corp., which operates Bennigan's, Steak & Ale and The Tavern restaurants, has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 today, effectively putting it out of business. A Chapter 7 filing means they will sell off all their...
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Jul28
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Dualstar Entertainment Group LLC: Foundation of the Empire - Becoming Major BrandThe strategy to enhance the Dualstar brand has started to pay off after several years, as in a number of categories it has become the No. 1 selling brand...
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Jul27
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Dualstar Entertainment Group LLC: Foundation of the Empire - Selective MerchandisingAnother big change the young ladies went through was the willingness to be more selective in their merchandising. Rather than a scattered approach, where they almost tried anything and were...
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Jul26
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Dualstar Entertainment Group LLC: Foundation of the Empire - Marketing to tweens and teensWhen the Olsens took over the company, they were right at another transitional stage they had to deal with in the past, when they went from tween...
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Jul25
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One of the more inspirational stories of the last several years has ended today, as "Last Lecture" author and video star Randy Pausch lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 47.Pausch become wildly popular from his story...
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Jul24
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Is this making something little go a long way? Maybe it's "in you hair today, gone tomorrow." Either way, a woman in China discovered that her hair band was unraveling, and when she took it off an looked at it,...
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The federal minimum wage increased by 70 cents today, which will affect about 2 million American workers. It jumps from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour. Next year the final of the three yearly increased will bring it to $7.25 an...
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Jul23
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As usual, the implementing of socialist measures under the guise of capitalism has resulted in another financial disaster, as the failure of Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) have revealed. What's been amazing about it, is capitalism...
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Jul22
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It took one second-quarter report from Wachovia Corp. (nyse: WB) to remind Wall Street and consumers that the largest banks in America are far from being out of the woods with the credit crisis. Today Wachovia, the nation's fourth-largest bank,...
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Jul21
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Oppenheimer is completely wrong!Today, after the New York Post stirred up the ongoing concerns about the health of Steve Jobs, it put the company on the defensive as it got ready to report its quarterly numbers.When asked about the condition of...
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Jim Rogers gives an economic lesson to some talking heads, as he offers his usual brilliant, albeit cantankerous insights into government intervention folly.It's especially telling when he talks about how in one swoop the government more than doubled the national...
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Citing inefficiency as the major impediment to business success in Africa, Li Jinyuan, one of the richest men from mainland China, and president of the Tiens Group, said the continent needs to get its act together if it wants to...
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Jul20
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Montreal laughingstock, as union forbids property owners to sweep sidewalks Canada seems to be completely going to the dumps (pun intended), as now shopkeepars and apartment owners in Montreal can't sweep the front of their properties to make it look better, as...
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He has returned to his first love, repaired the broken marriage, and made the bond more intimate than ever: Jobs and Apple are one, indivisible.These were the comments a writer and industry observer made just before the release of the...
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Jul19
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Dualstar Entertainment Group LLC: Foundation of the Empire One very important thing Robert Thorne did before being bought out by the siblings, was to start to move the company away from being branded as the celebrity duo, and move the company...
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Jul18
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Now you can find out if your favorite Starbucks' destination is among those being closed, as Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) released its list of stores today it is going to shutter up. Beginning this month, 50 of the 616 stores will be...
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Jul17
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The topsy turvy Miley Cyrus seems to be having a meltdown and career confusion, as one part of the day she can talk about the importance of her relationship with God and desire to be good a role model, and...
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Regulators from six states in the U.S. circled around Wachovia Securities Thursday, in a surprise inspection raid connected to the company's sales of auction-rate debt. Securities regulators raided the affiliate of Wachovia Corp. (NYSE: WB) after it refused to respond...
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John Dineen has been named President and CEO of General Electric's (NYSE: GE)Healthcare business on Thursday, replacing Joseph Hogan, who was hired by ABB Ltd. to be their CEO. ABB Ltd. is an electrical engineering company based in Zurich, Switzerland.Dineen...
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Jul16
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The response of Mattel (NYSE: MAT) toward those criticising its foray into the S&M culture with its newest Barbie was lacking integrity and honesty. When a number of people challenged the idea of releasing the newest doll creation, Mattel responding...
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After ending at an all-time high last weak, oil prices have dropped almost $13, as Tuesday's drop of $6.44 was followed by another decrease of $4.14 today. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, crude inventories surprisingly grew by 3.0...
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Jul15
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One word describes why Walt Disney was so successful: PioneerIt doesn't matter what you read, hear or view about Walt Disney and his life, one word always underscored who he was and what he did, and that was "pioneer." It...
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Everyone's going to feel the painIn a major news conference today, General Motors (NYSE: GM) Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner announced some huge cuts today in order to help position the company as a much leaner and competitive business going...
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Jul14
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To me, the response by the usual radical liberal media outlets to anything that may put Barak Hussein Obama in a negative light, reveals to me that they're running more scared than I have thought, and there are some real...
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Where's Democrat-controlled Congress?In what some are calling a "symbolic" move, President Bush today lifted a White House ban on offshore drilling, throwing the issue to the Democrat-controlled Congress to take similar action.Surprisingly, the Democrats continue to resist taking actions that...
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Readers of Managersrealm are definitely those that will have investments across a number of categories. With that in mind, many times when we move, we may have forgotten some of the things we've invested in or deposits/dividends etc. With that...
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Jul13
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Dualstar Entertainment Group LLC: Foundation of the Empire In 1993, lawyer Robert Thorne, understanding the growing potential of the young celebrities, created Dualstar Entertainment Group, for the purpose of tapping into the celebrity of the two stars.From the beginning of...
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Jul12
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One of the most celebrated medical practicioners of his generation, Dr. Michael DeBakey died Friday at the age of 99. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake, said concerning the service of Michael DeBakey: "Dr. DeBakey's skills as a...
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Jul11
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Second-largest bank takeover in U.S. historyCiting a run by depositors on the California mortgage lender, which left them short on cash, federal regulators rushed in and took over IndyMac. It's the second largest seizure of a financial institution in U.S....
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Customers at 7-Eleven have a nice surprise today as it celebrates its 81st birthday on July 11 by offering up free Slurpees at its participating stores.This continues what has become an annual tradition at the 7-Eleven stores, and will go...
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Jul10
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Taking the next stepWe'll get more into the success of Dualstar in upcoming posts, but this time I want to explore a little of the thinking of Mary-Kate and Ashley as they grew up, and as it relates to business.What...
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Same-store sales in June for Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) surpassed expectations, as the company enjoyed a surge in sales, far surpassing projections, as sales grew by 5.8 percent. If you add fuel sales to the mix, they grew by 6.4 percent...
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More significant early decisions guiding their pathsA couple of other things that helped shape and form the young ladies, was the decision by their parents to have several children, which had to have a significant impact on grounding them. Not...
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Jul 9
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Communicating with what he thought was an off-the-air comment, Jesse Jackson singed the hairs of Barack Obama with his rhetoric, as he blasted the presumptive Democratic candidate.His comments were controversial, to say the least, and there's no reason he should...
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Jim Rogers talks about the state of the U.S dollar, the possible disappearance of the central banking system in America, and who he'd prefer was running the U.S. banking system. He also talks about the ongoing and inevitable shift of...
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A bizarre lawsuit has been filed by an ex-con homosexual against two publishers of the Bible because it says that homosexuality is a sin. Strange misfit Bradley LaShawn Fowler is asking for $60 million in damages from Zondervan and $10...
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It if wasn't so sad it would be hilarious. According to Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of Royal Children's Hospital in Australia, they're treating the first case of "climate change delusion," what they call a "previously unreported phenomenon."The article says...
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Beginnings In this post we'll look at a little background on Mary-Kate and Ashley. By the way, the choice to put Mary-Kate's name at the beginning of talking about the duo, is a decision made by Ashley, who preferred it that...
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Brilliant Young BusinesswomenMary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are two of the more savvy young businesswomen in the world today. They are making all the right moves and know how far they can go without hurting their brand or their personal lives....
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Jul 8
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In an attempt to save their jobs and their rearends, Anheuser-Busch Co. (NYSE: BUD) launched countermeasures against the hostile bid from InBev in an attempt to stop them from continuing on with its strategy of ousting the existing board in...
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We need to drill for oil now!T. Boone Pickens laid out a plan today in an attempt to make America less dependent on foreign energy.Basically he calls for replacing natural gas with wind power, and then transferring natural gas reserves...
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Any business that wants to grow, ends up having to deal with the problem of hiring employees of an unknown quality. Most the time even the best practices of hiring fail to filter out some of those that don't fit...
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Jul 7
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If analysts at Lehman Brothers are right, the pending change to a Financial Accounting Standards Board rule could end up with the two companies having to raise billions of dollars to comply with the change.As far as the rule itself...
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Jul 6
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Here's a funny video from "The Onion," which asks the question burning on the minds of people everywhere: Should animals be doing more for the animal rights movement? It's a funny look at the silliness connected to the animal worshippers....
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Jul 5
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"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."More than once people who worked at the company while...
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Jul 3
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For the first time in 10 years, traffic over the Fourth of July is expected to decline, based primarily on the high cost of gas. The average cost of gas reached $4.09 Wednesday, a new record according to the AAA....
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Jul 2
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The answer seems to be yes. In a recent study conducted by the Business and Media Institute, it found that ABC (NYSE: DIS), NBC (NYSE: GE) and CBS (NYSE: CBS-A) on a consistent basis ""hyped similarities to the Great Depression."...
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Jul 1
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Analysts and investors liked what they saw, as Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) announced it was closing 600 poorly performing stores today, and get rid of up to 12,000 full- and part-time workers. The stock surged by 6 percent in response to the...
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