Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Guest Post: Dave Chappelle Understands Free Trade Better Than Most Politicians

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Chappelle’s words of wisdom should be inscribed on plaques to be placed on the wall in the White House. by Allan Golombek Dave Chappel...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Guest Post: No, Capitalism Is Not Ruining Your Christmas Market

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by Bill Wirtz Glowing Christmas lights fill the cold streets of medieval European cities with little wooden booths selling steaming hot wi...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Guest Post: Why Black Friday leads shoppers to behave badly

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Jaeha Lee , North Dakota State University The manic nature of Black Friday has at times led shoppers to engage in fistfights and other mi...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

From the Archives: Attracting and retaining businesses are the key to job growth, says Albemarle Supervisor Ken Boyd

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Attracting and retaining businesses are the key to job growth, says Albemarle Supervisor Ken Boyd August 3, 2010 9:56 PM MST Controvers...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Marilyn Monroe and the Real Value of Profits

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An obscure 1951 film that fell out of copyright gained some new life in the home video market simply because a then practically unknown Mar...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Does political affiliation affect our views of product and service brands?

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How does political affiliation affect our perceptions of various brand-name products and services? Does ideology change the way we view bra...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Daily Progress to Charge More for Thanksgiving Day Edition

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Today I received this message in my email box from Lawrence McConnell, publisher of the Charlottesville Daily Progress : On Thanksgiving Da...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

Trends of the New Economy

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The last major economic crisis to have a discernible effect on culture as well as politics was probably the one that started in the mid-1970...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

What Kind of Fools Do They Think We Are?

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The audacity of the Bush administration knows no bounds. Brian Wingfield and Josh Zumbrun report on Forbes.com: In fact, some of the most b...

Just the Facts, Not the Meme, Ma'am

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Colbert I. King is a man of impressive credentials . Before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post , he has be...

Craig Ferguson Gets It

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Late-night chat-show host Craig Ferguson may have been a U.S. citizen for less than a year, but he has a more profound understanding of the...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Porn Producers Fight Back

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Has it really come to this? Has the Internet spawned so much piracy and so many copyright violations that even the core business of on-line...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

I Should Be Glad I Work from Home

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According to Friday's Washington Post , today (Saturday) has been designated "Cranky Co-Workers Day." Whether that's a ho...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Gay Stories with Odd Angles

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Tomorrow's edition of The Forward features a report on the large number of gay men and lesbians who exhibit an interest in Yiddish cul...