Portland Business & Finance Examiners
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Your customers, for their patronage Your employees, for their efforts Your vendors, for their support Do wonders with a sincere expression of...
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An interesting statistic ever-so-casually mentioned in a local paper - unemployment was up to 10.4% in 1982, but what makes things worse...
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35d4-429d-9c08-edf13b2a2173.jpg&use=pquery Mortgage rates hit perhaps historical lows today as mixed news, largely less than...
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Consumer confidence inched ahead in the latest month, but the monthly sample of 5,000 U.S. households shows no signs of breaking out of...
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway may not have received permission from the SEC to keep some of its stock holdings confidential as of Sept. 30. When Berkshire filed...
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Good Morning America's cancellation of Adam Lambert's concert is at best homophobic. In truth, it reeks of prudishness and a desire to buy into a veiled homophobia that still seems...
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New York Mets Stories2009 MLB season in review: New York Mets The 2009 season was a terrible disappointment for the New York Mets. They...
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Ignore the naysayers! You can build your dream business, regardless of what current economic conditions may suggest. Many successful...
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Amazon.com's newest Kindle model has 85 percent more battery life than the previous version, the company announced today. The new version...
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Simple soap and water are still the best way to fight germs. And skip the antibacterial soaps if you can as they are harmful to the...
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Feds blame low oxygen for Ala. mine death
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Low oxygen levels likely caused the death of a coal miner in a west Alabama mine where several others were overcome during a rescue attempt, federal mine safety officials said Tuesday.