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10 rules that make or break your online dating experience
16 January 2008You can find every type of person that tickles your fancy with online dating - but before you begin pinging every hot profile, make sure you know the 10 rules about online dating.
Your love life may be stalled for a number of reasons. A recently ended relationship might leave you stranded with a condensed social […]
5 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
16 January 2008It’s the new year and with that comes a few more months of winter. While the cold weather and snow covered ground may have been pretty in December, by the end of January it starts to wear on you. It seems that the weeks leading up to spring are not only frigid but they […]
How to Choose a Real Estate Agent?
16 January 2008A real estate agent will guide you to - and through - the most important decision of your life. How do you know, for sure, that he will act in your best interests?
How do you know if he will really work for you? Is he too busy for you? What of his personal integrity? How […]
Playing Puzzle With Your Kids
16 January 2008No parents want their kids to be weaker or less active then their peers. Every child should develop his own talent. However, it is a mistake to count on school discipline alone to mold your kids. Good characters are growing from the combinations of school discipline and parenting.
Due to the daily working load, many parents […]
Common Builder Blunders - and How to Avoid Them!
16 January 2008When it comes to building a house, there are dozens of opportunities for making mistakes or bad decisions. Not to worry, you’ve hired a reputable builder who knows what he’s doing; these mistakes shouldn’t be an issue. Maybe in a perfect world, but all builders can make errors. These may be as simple as locating […]
Wachovia tops list for mortgage-lending satisfaction
13 December 2007Wachovia Corp. ranks highest in customer satisfaction for primary mortgage loan originations, according to the 2007 Primary Mortgage Origination Study.
Charlotte-based Wachovia (NYSE:WB) received an overall customer-satisfaction score of 827, based on a 1,000 point scale. Wachovia’s score was nine points higher than that of the nearest competitor, SunTrust Mortgage Inc. Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. […]
N.C. to provide $1.2B in incentives
13 December 2007 North Carolina has provided more than $3.7 billion in incentives over the last three years to lure businesses to the state.
According to a draft report by the N.C. General Assembly’s fiscal research division, North Carolina will spend $1.2 billion on incentives this fiscal year, which ends in June.
That’s down from the nearly $1.3 billion […]
Microsoft faces antitrust complaint for bundling browser
13 December 2007Less than two months after Microsoft lost a landmark antitrust case in Europe, a Norwegian software company filed a new complaint Thursday, challenging the U.S. software giant’s bundling of its Web browser with the Windows operating system.The complaint to the European Commission was filed by Opera Software, based in Oslo, a maker of browsers for […]
Biggest Swiss political party quits cabinet
13 December 2007Switzerland’s biggest political party quit the cabinet Thursday, ending nearly half a century of government by consensus and opening what analysts see as a period of uncertainty in the previously predictable world of Swiss politics.The rightist Swiss People’s Party announced its decision to go into opposition a day after Parliament voted to remove its preferred […]
Playing Public Relations Games
13 December 2007Source: Washington Post, December 11, 2007
“Sixty percent of US consumers polled agree that the government should regulate the sale of violent or mature video games,” states a press release from the PR firm Hill & Knowlton (H&K). The video game industry’s Entertainment Software Association (ESA) was not amused — especially because H&K had “conducted the […]
