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Zara May Be The Only Company In Spain Not Failing
It may not be a favorite of those with wide waistlines, but Inditex, owner of the Zara fashion chain, now comes in extra large. This week the La Coruña-based fashion retailer overtook telecoms company...
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8 Myths You Shouldn't Believe About About Long-Term Care Insurance
Chances are about 70 percent that you'll need long-term care sometime after age 65, according to the nonprofit Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE). And it won't come cheaply. The...
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This One Leadership Trait Will Boost Your Whole Team's Performance
Charismatic leaders bring out our best and make us do better work. Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: If you’re a leader, or aspire to be one,...
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The Only Sales E-Mails You Should Bother Signing Up For
Oh, email inbox. You cluttered hot mess. We hear that chime indicating that someone likes us–really, really likes us, and wants to tell us something right now–but when we click over to you, it’s just...
View ArticleMint.com & Other Worthy Personal Finance Apps
We all aspire to better, simpler finances. These apps and tools can help. 1. Mint.com is the industry leader in the personal finance app space. I currently use Mint on my iPhone and iPad (occasionally...
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Four Employers That Will Help You Pay Your Way Through College
By Christopher Maag Getting financial help with college was one of the major reasons why Benjamin Armstrong joined the Marine Corps. But when the veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally...
View ArticleHas Gold's Next Move Higher Begun?
Last Friday’s spike in gold after the terrible US jobs report has many wondering whether gold is ripe for a reversal. Here’s the answer short & sweet. Here’s a brief gold forecast based on its...
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Having A Hot Wife Could Help You Land That Job
As a candidate, you know that people considering you for employment judge you on everything, right? Clothes. Your Car. How you talk. Whether your spouse is smoking hot. Hold up, what was that last...
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This Is What A Country On The Brink Of Collapse Looks Like
Tourism, Greece’s second largest industry after the shipping industry, and already in a downdraft, is taking another hit as tour bus drivers will go on strike for four days next week; wage...
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Don't Even Think About Buying A New Condo Until You've Read This
Sure, pre-war buildings are charming, but there's something about many new condos that feels, well, cooler...particularly to anyone who has endured the limitations of NYC's vintage real estate. We...
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If You're Using This Insurance, Then You're Wasting Your Money
Imagine you’ve flown into town to attend a friend’s wedding. You’re driving down the highway in a rental car, dog by your side, chatting on your cellphone. Insure all that and it’s possible that you...
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A Woman Is Facing Jail Time For Blowing $93,000 Of Her Grandson’s Trust Fund...
Establishing a trust fund with a family member as trustee is a common practice, but it works out best when the trustee doesn’t gamble away all the assets. Unfortunately, that’s allegedly what happened...
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Japanese Manufacturers Are Reversing Everything That Made The Country An...
In a darkened industrial hangar in eastern Osaka, Yoshihiro Yamanaka is tearing up the rule book that once made Japanese manufacturing the feared global standard of efficiency. At Fuji Spring, a...
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Hate SOPA And CISPA? Get Ready For A Steady Stream Of Internet Regulation...
Is 2012 a landmark year for Internet security bills, or is it just the tip of the iceberg? So far this year we’ve had SOPA, CISPA, CSA and SECURE IT - the latter three still up for votes in the...
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Prison Officers At Supermax Are Being Sued For Torturing This Inmate Until He...
Jose Martin Vega was no saint. Convicted in 1995 of 15 counts of racketeering and armed drug trafficking, he was sentenced, at the age of 20, to four consecutive life sentences. Nine years after his...
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A Judge In The Anders Behring Breivik Was Caught Playing Online Solitaire...
One of the five judges in the trial against Anders Behring Breivik has been caught on camera playing solitaire online during proceedings. In a screen capture published on the website of newspaper...
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This Boss Doesn't Tell His Employees When He's Coming Back From Vacation So...
Many years ago I had the pleasure of working for a mid-sized regional law firm based out of Washington, D.C. It was a thriving practice driven primarily by the skill and amazing work-ethic of the...
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Private Equity Firms Are Bankrolling Start-Ups That Rip Off Twitter And...
Some venture capitalists call it "geo-arbitrage"; others know it as "tropicalisation". The term refers to the practice of backing start-ups that take an established business model and adapt it to an...
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Village Elders In India Have Ordered That A Young Women Be Ostracized For 60...
Village elders in south-east India have ordered a young woman to be ostracised for 60 years because she took a menial job as a sweeper despite belonging to a higher caste. Pinki Rajak, a 22-year-old...
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Yes, You Can Get Health Care Even When You're Uninsured
A couple of years ago, I had a cold for about four months. I thought I had somehow caught five colds in a row, which I thought was no big deal, because they were just colds after all. But then I...
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