<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046868999021065091</id><updated>2012-02-02T14:03:08.615-08:00</updated><category term='contest'/><category term='units'/><category term='Film Business'/><category term='to'/><category term='Business Magazine'/><category term='Goal'/><category term='Ahead'/><category term='Small Businesses'/><category term='felt'/><category term='Small Business Calendar'/><category term='Small Business?'/><category term='Global business'/><category term='Business Confidence'/><category term='Government'/><category term='Business'/><category term='Fire Your Customers'/><category term='furloughs'/><category term='for'/><category term='among'/><category term='Earth'/><category term='plan'/><category term='Class Mail'/><category term='entries'/><category term='Is More Relief'/><category term='Record'/><category term='Small Business'/><category term='College of Business'/><category term='business of making people'/><category term='Setting'/><category term='capital businesses'/><category term='sell business'/><category term='Parts Business'/><category term='Critical'/><category term='of Stimulus Bills'/><category term='for Wisconsin'/><title type='text'>small business Tips</title><subtitle type='html'>Keeping it simple is often the best way of maintaining the momentum necessary to get your business started. There are a series of steps to ensure success</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://smallbusiness-zakira.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1046868999021065091/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://smallbusiness-zakira.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>rsu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06101861545314171056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046868999021065091.post-8205643526389470935</id><published>2009-02-15T14:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-17T08:37:37.655-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sin City is worried that its well-honed style is crimping its business.</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;     h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}     div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {      list-style-type:square;      padding-left:1em;    }      div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {     padding-left:6px;     border-left: 6px solid #dadada;     margin-left:1em;    }      div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {     margin-bottom:1em;     margin-left:1em;    }      table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active {     color:#88AC0B;     font-weight:bold;     text-decoration:none;    }      img {border:none;}     &lt;/style&gt; &lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin: 0pt 2em; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table id="itemcontentlist" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); clear: both; padding-top: 0.5em;"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gcsoZxZJt59Ivvt5oGTbAzn77RXwD96C5T7G0&amp;amp;cid=1304608537&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdRQtMiUUSh-PJRWQvr_ZePiUukQ"&gt;Sin City worries its image hurts business travel - The Associated Press&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 12:31 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gcsoZxZJt59Ivvt5oGTbAzn77RXwD96C5T7G0&amp;amp;cid=1304608537&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdRQtMiUUSh-PJRWQvr_ZePiUukQ"&gt;Sin City worries its image hurts &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;The Associated Press -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sin City is worried that its well-honed style is crimping its &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;. Born of carefully crafted slogans — "What happens here stays here" &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.petition15feb15,0,1710002.story&amp;amp;cid=1304477393&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE7Ax7Y_EjRGP_uWrQwVQKvBvSF2A"&gt;Annapolis business owners petition for Market House progress - Baltimore Sun&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 02:23 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.petition15feb15,0,1710002.story&amp;amp;cid=1304477393&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE7Ax7Y_EjRGP_uWrQwVQKvBvSF2A"&gt;Annapolis &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners petition for Market House progress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Baltimore Sun, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;13 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By Tyeesha Dixon | tyeesha.dixon@baltsun.com The Annapolis &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Association has started a petition to encourage city officials to pass legislation that &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/business/yourmoney/ny-bzcov156036901feb15,0,7186085.story&amp;amp;cid=1304476196&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG9TwB-y2OoDwKXz4cbiBwZZVvG0Q"&gt;Starting a business in a recession - Newsday&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 02:14 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/business/yourmoney/ny-bzcov156036901feb15,0,7186085.story&amp;amp;cid=1304476196&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG9TwB-y2OoDwKXz4cbiBwZZVvG0Q"&gt;Starting a &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; in a recession&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Newsday, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;13 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Some will be pursuing long-held start-up dreams, and others will start &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; out of necessity as the recession deepens and layoffs accelerate. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ns_mytown-hotslings_0215gd.ART.State.Edition1.4c47049.html&amp;amp;cid=1304479930&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2eLI79NXnml3tz2hMTYLBN5oALQ"&gt;Hotslings is a growing business for East Dallas entrepreneur - Dallas Morning News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 02:37 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ns_mytown-hotslings_0215gd.ART.State.Edition1.4c47049.html&amp;amp;cid=1304479930&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2eLI79NXnml3tz2hMTYLBN5oALQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=HvXqFok3xu8J&amp;amp;imgurl=www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/v3/02-15-2009.NGD_15derocha.GJT2INKDR.1.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="53" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Dallas Morning News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ns_mytown-hotslings_0215gd.ART.State.Edition1.4c47049.html&amp;amp;cid=1304479930&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2eLI79NXnml3tz2hMTYLBN5oALQ"&gt;Hotslings is a growing &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; for East Dallas entrepreneur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Dallas Morning News, TX -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;13 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The East Dallas resident owns Hotslings, a baby-gear &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; that's popular with celeb moms such as Sarah Palin, Minnie Driver and model-designer Milla &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilNews/idUKTRE51E0DF20090215&amp;amp;cid=1304495875&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFXGGQrEadwMVC6BVPt8m9vY2U_Yg"&gt;Film comes clean on German-Polish laundry business - Reuters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 04:05 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilNews/idUKTRE51E0DF20090215&amp;amp;cid=1304495875&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFXGGQrEadwMVC6BVPt8m9vY2U_Yg"&gt;Film comes clean on German-Polish laundry &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Reuters -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;12 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; the laundry's German manager Franz Josef Wiesemann explains how the lower Polish wages had persuaded his  company to set up &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; there. Continued...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.startribune.com/business/39576922.html%3Felr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU&amp;amp;cid=1304599220&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEom9cPLCFmPH02eS-CmfLzsmUQ2A"&gt;Small Business Calendar - Minneapolis Star Tribune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 15 Feb 2009 02:17 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.startribune.com/business/39576922.html%3Felr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU&amp;amp;cid=1304599220&amp;amp;ei=wZOYSezMF5TINfud6aMK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEom9cPLCFmPH02eS-CmfLzsmUQ2A"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;SCORE small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; counseling. 10 am to 1 pm, Southdale Library, 7001 York Av. 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Earth Class Mail is also disbanding its enterprise sales push as the venture-backed &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2009/02/steele_no_funny_business_with.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2VNYUGs79jWWPt1gLYTPSYVkN0w"&gt;Steele: No Funny Business With Campaign Money - Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 12:30 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/02/07/federal-agents-question-steeles-campaign/&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFcMWjZP4qk2ukd0v_W8oppE2ASIw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=XAHCD9q4ZGQJ&amp;amp;imgurl=media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/02/06/PH2009020604153.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="55" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;AOL News Newsbloggers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2009/02/steele_no_funny_business_with.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH2VNYUGs79jWWPt1gLYTPSYVkN0w"&gt;Steele: No 'Funny &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;' With Campaign Money&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Washington Post, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Michael S. Steele, the newly-elected chairman  of the Republican National Committee, said yesterday that if there were any "funny &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;" going on with his &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSktNCEAGZkc&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNESW44Eq1Xj-AXhSWw8xYtDNUdZyg"&gt;Video: GOP's Steele Attacks Dems on Stimulus Plan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;AssociatedPress&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SktNCEAGZkc"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SktNCEAGZkc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/2009/02/09/new-republican-chairman-pushes-for-more-aid-to-small-business/&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFjatwppx93TpzhheICRT6PdJ55WQ"&gt;New Republican Chairman Pushes for More Aid to Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Wall Street Journal Blogs&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Steele_Government_construction_jobs_dont_count_0208.html&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH3lXk2ImHOiuq1cLTwKnmv_rL7CA"&gt;RNC chair: Only real jobs are those &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; creates&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Raw Story&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/02/09/steele-stumps-stephanopoulos-make-work-vs-jobs&amp;amp;cid=1302621198&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE0pijQHntLpmmAxGGqIXtjpxACsg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;NewsBusters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302621198"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 279 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/business/09junket.html%3Fbl%26ex%3D1234328400%26en%3D800722cbd5904cc4%26ei%3D5087%250A&amp;amp;cid=1302213957&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE0LcNJXsCLO1aXviCSMlY8Dwms5g"&gt;Business Trip, or Just a Junket? It Matters Lately - New York Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 11:08 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212206552.shtml&amp;amp;cid=1302213957&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHg9V53S2x6M85iWRZBVpacM-p3bg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=Gf2ghuAd2BgJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.postchronicle.com/images/articles/wf_001.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="55" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Post Chronicle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/business/09junket.html%3Fbl%26ex%3D1234328400%26en%3D800722cbd5904cc4%26ei%3D5087%250A&amp;amp;cid=1302213957&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE0LcNJXsCLO1aXviCSMlY8Dwms5g"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Trip, or Just a Junket? It Matters Lately&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;5 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;It also means many employees on lower rungs of the corporate ladder are seeing at least a temporary end to what had become  a  normal perk of &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; life. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20090209/COLUMNISTS/902089976/1021/NONE%26parentprofile%3D1062%26title%3DNo%2520more%2520business%2520as%2520usual&amp;amp;cid=1302213957&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFEWo19EugNbXQTKTCoi6omDjfzgg"&gt;No more &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; as usual&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Grand Junction Free Press&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302213957"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 109 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washbizblog/2009/02/value_added_13.html%3Fhpid%3Dsec-business&amp;amp;cid=1302520515&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH9wRYrg_XFS7WtR083bWKDrcMuUw"&gt;Working Out The Business - Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 11:21 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washbizblog/2009/02/value_added_13.html%3Fhpid%3Dsec-business&amp;amp;cid=1302520515&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH9wRYrg_XFS7WtR083bWKDrcMuUw"&gt;Working Out The &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Washington Post, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Von Storch is 50 and a Harvard &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; School graduate. He is fond of quoting Warren Buffett (a Washington Post Co. board member) about reinvesting in your &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/02/09/daily1.html&amp;amp;cid=1302668599&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG7wNy16Bb6PaXln_n8Jx6ZOKXk4A"&gt;Business consultant to present at IUS - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 09:55 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/02/09/daily1.html&amp;amp;cid=1302668599&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG7wNy16Bb6PaXln_n8Jx6ZOKXk4A"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; consultant to present at IUS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Eliyahu Goldratt, an author and &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; consultant, will be the featured speaker at  a free &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; forum, "The Reality of the Current Economy and What We &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-utilities0209,0,1568261.story&amp;amp;cid=1302633092&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGouooFkIYS7IFZxAFIrdxJNHQNuA"&gt;Md. utilities aim to send more business to minorities - Baltimore Sun&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 07:20 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.wmdt.com/topstory/topstory.asp%3Fid%3D4205&amp;amp;cid=1302633092&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEYr8Ku_AqXy3_b5ZYCqifLUWWthw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=pt7yHZ_xNvYJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.wmdt.com/images/topstory/57BD9CD9-FAFC-4E40-9AAE-8DA90160F7B7/topstorypic.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="59" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;WMDT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-utilities0209,0,1568261.story&amp;amp;cid=1302633092&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGouooFkIYS7IFZxAFIrdxJNHQNuA"&gt;Md. utilities aim to send more &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; to minorities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Baltimore Sun, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;AP Public utilities in Maryland have agreed with state regulators to try to steer 25 percent of their contract funds to &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; owned by women, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.wmdt.com/topstory/topstory.asp%3Fid%3D4205&amp;amp;cid=1302633092&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEYr8Ku_AqXy3_b5ZYCqifLUWWthw"&gt;MD Utilities Aim To Help Minority &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Owners&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;WMDT&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020801770.html&amp;amp;cid=1302633092&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGnplHytzUiO8XEUS4NC4Z3fqxc1w"&gt;Md. Utilities Boost Goals For Minority Contracting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Post&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302633092"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 11 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/09/daily15.html&amp;amp;cid=1301755966&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHUSDXZYuQq7XYdKdthmODqgAtTBg"&gt;Wozniak to dance with the stars Silicon Valley / San Jose ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 03:24 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/09/daily15.html&amp;amp;cid=1301755966&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHUSDXZYuQq7XYdKdthmODqgAtTBg"&gt;Wozniak to dance with the 'stars' Silicon Valley / San Jose &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;52 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Last week Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak reportedly took a job in Utah; now he'll be dancing with the stars. ABC network said its "Dancing with the &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601116%26sid%3DapGKzweBWFNU%26refer%3Dafrica&amp;amp;cid=1302531421&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF09puUTPVztvqawedAnoQr_Ejx2w"&gt;Optimum Coal May Delay Stock Listing, Business Report Says - Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 12:08 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601116%26sid%3DapGKzweBWFNU%26refer%3Dafrica&amp;amp;cid=1302531421&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF09puUTPVztvqawedAnoQr_Ejx2w"&gt;Optimum Coal May Delay Stock Listing, &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Report Says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bloomberg -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; bought a coal mine from BHP Billiton, may delay a listing of its stock in Johannesburg, &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Report said, citing chief financial officer Doug Gain. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/09/ap6028136.html&amp;amp;cid=1302713840&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGvtVz3fIptSWXpYc3qadB9CsXMHA"&gt;Business aviation group spent $460K lobbying in 4Q - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 01:56 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/09/ap6028136.html&amp;amp;cid=1302713840&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGvtVz3fIptSWXpYc3qadB9CsXMHA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; aviation group spent $460K lobbying in 4Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;AP , 02.09.09, 02:45 PM EST The National &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Aviation Association, which represents companies that rely on general aviation, spent $460000 lobbying the &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/02/09/daily2.html&amp;amp;cid=1302667383&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFXVa8Kr2k_tcNAUPyCfm97QoO_rA"&gt;Schooley Caldwell namesake dies Business First of Columbus - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 09 Feb 2009 09:58 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/02/09/daily2.html&amp;amp;cid=1302667383&amp;amp;ei=OquQSYmrMKXWMOuI4bQK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFXVa8Kr2k_tcNAUPyCfm97QoO_rA"&gt;Schooley Caldwell namesake dies &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; First of Columbus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Schooley Caldwell now stands as one of the 20 largest architecture firms in Central Ohio, according to Columbus &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; 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line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/yourtaxes/08entre.html%3Fref%3Dsmallbusiness&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrmxn4uHReroFAbxQ361XfDpvisg"&gt;Is More Relief Ahead for Small Business? - New York Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 07:47 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fhp&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHC1N55FF2FFIktqOrJxnU3QUfczw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=qmeDruz0EZsJ&amp;amp;imgurl=graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/07/business/07sbiz.600.1.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="37" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/yourtaxes/08entre.html%3Fref%3Dsmallbusiness&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrmxn4uHReroFAbxQ361XfDpvisg"&gt;Is More Relief Ahead  for Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;20 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By CONRAD DE AENLLE WITH the economy in terrible shape, owners of small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; could use a break. The tax code offers many to choose from, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/small-business/2009/02/landrieu_small_business_to_ben.html&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFUF7Fb2u4vK0V6zx19wvHKERm8IA"&gt;Landrieu: Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; to Benefit from Economic Plan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Post Blogs&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fhp&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHC1N55FF2FFIktqOrJxnU3QUfczw"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt; Critical of Stimulus&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;New York Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302009139"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 6 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/08/ap6024145.html&amp;amp;cid=1302416342&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH48d540tF6VwKDuxZp8NfsXqByhg"&gt;Business events scheduled for the coming week - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/08/ap6024145.html&amp;amp;cid=1302416342&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH48d540tF6VwKDuxZp8NfsXqByhg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; events scheduled for the coming week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; 8:30 am; Commerce Department releases the retail sales report for January, 8:30 am, Commerce Department releases &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; inventories for December, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2009/02/08/business_events_scheduled_for_the_coming_week&amp;amp;cid=1302416342&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFb2ZEpCBS9HeXiwLn-9uYZeGkz2A"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; events scheduled for the coming week&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Boston Globe&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302416342"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 3 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-businessday,0,5157921.story&amp;amp;cid=1301902215&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEtwj21UFfHdKHXv1lHF_50AF7UpA"&gt;Doyle to address business leaders on state budget - Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 12:27 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-businessday,0,5157921.story&amp;amp;cid=1301902215&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEtwj21UFfHdKHXv1lHF_50AF7UpA"&gt;Doyle to address &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; leaders on state budget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Chicago Tribune, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Jim Doyle is  scheduled to speak about the state budget at a Wednesday meeting expected to draw &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; leaders from across Wisconsin. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601085%26sid%3DavMMhnfybcVk%26refer%3Deurope&amp;amp;cid=1302354908&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHWsApQZ205dTzig3YS_5EWAoQt4Q"&gt;Norway to Pump $15 Billion Into Banks, Businesses - Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 10:40 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hAzd0eY4GS98PFpTXirV6PXCTbNA&amp;amp;cid=1302354908&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHQmyP31UIN2K1Qz2M3No0jlmYi5A"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=C_frU-XSH7UJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5ibdGqEpYyDHo4KMtYUpI0_CleSzA" alt="" border="1" height="53" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;AFP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601085%26sid%3DavMMhnfybcVk%26refer%3Deurope&amp;amp;cid=1302354908&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHWsApQZ205dTzig3YS_5EWAoQt4Q"&gt;Norway to Pump $15 Billion Into Banks, &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bloomberg -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;5 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;"It's vital that we help kick-start good &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; projects, so we can maintain and create new jobs," Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said in a statement. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123411883915260951.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj&amp;amp;cid=1302354908&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFF-DmMmttWfecc8e6_75CY9TEDDA"&gt;Norway Unveils Bank Aid Package&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302354908"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 66 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-lineck086028274feb08,0,4984200.story&amp;amp;cid=1302185406&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFOihZYUf79v9aIrRG_1d6CTPLtrg"&gt;Madoff scam cuts business at Great Neck barbershop - Newsday&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 02:05 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-lineck086028274feb08,0,4984200.story&amp;amp;cid=1302185406&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFOihZYUf79v9aIrRG_1d6CTPLtrg"&gt;Madoff scam cuts &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; at Great Neck barbershop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Newsday, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;14 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Lately, &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; at the Elegant Men's Hairstyles had been bad, he acknowledged. It didn't help that the employer of many of his clients, nearby Sterling &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/motorsports/stories/020809dnsponascarblitz.3808c18.html&amp;amp;cid=1302416211&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFpD7K2nYpkN5qKQxH0DoGxhJk2Bw"&gt;Sprint Cup preview: Back to business - Dallas Morning News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 11:30 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/motorsports/stories/020809dnsponascarblitz.3808c18.html&amp;amp;cid=1302416211&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFpD7K2nYpkN5qKQxH0DoGxhJk2Bw"&gt;Sprint Cup preview: Back to &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Dallas Morning News, TX -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Instead, the series story lines have read like a newspaper's &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; page: talk centering on mergers, layoffs and the struggling economy. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/02/daily95.html&amp;amp;cid=1301829391&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEBmSbfijyZ4Di4t0BECZV3URmBmA"&gt;Bay Area newspaper owner expands furloughs Silicon Valley / San ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 08:02 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/02/02/daily95.html&amp;amp;cid=1301829391&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEBmSbfijyZ4Di4t0BECZV3URmBmA"&gt;Bay Area newspaper owner expands furloughs Silicon Valley / San &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;MediaNews Group Inc., which previously asked workers at 50 California newspapers including the San Jose Mercury News to take one-week unpaid leaves, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.startribune.com/business/39225647.html%3Felr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU&amp;amp;cid=1302158907&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHNrPt2pUmF6hPJ2t0sAzHFN7PLZA"&gt;Best books on business could change your life - Minneapolis Star Tribune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 02:39 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.startribune.com/business/39225647.html%3Felr%3DKArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU&amp;amp;cid=1302158907&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHNrPt2pUmF6hPJ2t0sAzHFN7PLZA"&gt;Best books on &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; could change your life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Preaching that philosophy has put me in a dilemma: I'm often asked to list my top 10 favorite &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; books. But when 11000 are published in the United &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/2009/02/07/20090207biz-mackay0208.html&amp;amp;cid=1302158907&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE3o7A4XTu4xvUJ1WORshe8vFdR6A"&gt;List of best &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; books offers wealth of inspiration&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Arizona Republic&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/39164347.html&amp;amp;cid=1302158907&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHYS0-9kTedrcippEjdlDHV3Y3FuA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; list mixes Covey with Seuss&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Milwaukee Journal Sentinel&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302158907"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 6 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/02/lakeshore_jewelers_business_mo.html&amp;amp;cid=1302415151&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFTpAYTcFrW_bBXDDJ7Xia9f9q-YA"&gt;Lakeshore jewelers business more than a gem - MLive.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 08 Feb 2009 03:05 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/02/lakeshore_jewelers_business_mo.html&amp;amp;cid=1302415151&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFTpAYTcFrW_bBXDDJ7Xia9f9q-YA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=9jVC6ijUoFMJ&amp;amp;imgurl=blog.mlive.com/grpress/news_impact/2009/02/large_SILVA-453.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="54" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;MLive.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/02/lakeshore_jewelers_business_mo.html&amp;amp;cid=1302415151&amp;amp;ei=rVmPScm7JIHaMcbQqKEK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFTpAYTcFrW_bBXDDJ7Xia9f9q-YA"&gt;Lakeshore jewelers' &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; more than a gem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MLive.com, MI -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Zeeland store, 136 E. 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line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jVA-73I3e4i3nzgMTJYOPJVs1cUQD966MV402&amp;amp;cid=1301971433&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEEhJJrOkM_4e9ETmvZAURNqC89AA"&gt;Government furloughs felt among capital businesses - The Associated Press&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 05:20 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jVA-73I3e4i3nzgMTJYOPJVs1cUQD966MV402&amp;amp;cid=1301971433&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEEhJJrOkM_4e9ETmvZAURNqC89AA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=DHQ5liY6wQYJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5jZaP-PKKHujRlzeep10dDnYc1zLQ" alt="" border="1" height="60" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;The Associated Press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jVA-73I3e4i3nzgMTJYOPJVs1cUQD966MV402&amp;amp;cid=1301971433&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEEhJJrOkM_4e9ETmvZAURNqC89AA"&gt;Government furloughs felt among capital &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;The Associated Press -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;10 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;(AP) — Many &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;  in the state capital were noticeably quiet as tens of thousands of California government workers stayed home Friday. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fhp&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvLpSOnph6L1QZnb4X5ypbNqqjaA"&gt;Small Businesses Critical of Stimulus - New York Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 11:20 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fhp&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvLpSOnph6L1QZnb4X5ypbNqqjaA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=qmeDruz0EZsJ&amp;amp;imgurl=graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/07/business/07sbiz.600.1.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="37" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fhp&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvLpSOnph6L1QZnb4X5ypbNqqjaA"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt; Critical of Stimulus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By MICKEY MEECE As a huge stimulus package wends its way toward President Obama's desk, &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners say that all they really want is cash in the tills &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/small-business/2009/02/landrieu_small_business_to_ben.html&amp;amp;cid=1302009139&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNET4zJY96uQ-L4Htqy0kJ7xNAvLVA"&gt;Landrieu: Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; to Benefit from Economic Plan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Post Blogs&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1302009139"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 5 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebizbite/archives/161488.asp%3Ffrom%3Dblog_last3&amp;amp;cid=1301829493&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEv2lEgGMqynaVHgxkIC4Bd5FNOhg"&gt;How to start a new business in a weekend with zero budget - Seattle Post Intelligencer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 03:16 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebizbite/archives/161488.asp%3Ffrom%3Dblog_last3&amp;amp;cid=1301829493&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEv2lEgGMqynaVHgxkIC4Bd5FNOhg"&gt;How to start a new &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; in a weekend with zero budget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Seattle Post Intelligencer -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;58 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Smilgin started by explaining how Startup Weekend is so much more than the usual "&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; development meets speed dating" description. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/DN-franchisetax_07bus.ART.State.Edition1.4c186ca.html&amp;amp;cid=1301934673&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFx7i_18aOoLfZBRQpJ_1BBmaTntg"&gt;Small businesses urge Texas to revise franchise tax - Dallas Morning News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 02:33 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/DN-franchisetax_07bus.ART.State.Edition1.4c186ca.html&amp;amp;cid=1301934673&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFx7i_18aOoLfZBRQpJ_1BBmaTntg"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; urge Texas to revise franchise tax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Dallas Morning News, TX -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;13 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By KATIE FAIRBANK / The Dallas Morning News Small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners are holding onto hopes that the Legislature will revise the state's franchise tax this &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07bizbriefs-REGULATORSCL_BRF.html&amp;amp;cid=1301692598&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGPFOmz9apJXfQR1OYUqlLxoMQWXw"&gt;Business Briefing | Company News Regulators Close Banks in Georgia ... - New York Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 10:50 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.themoneytimes.com/news/20090207/three_small_banks_fail_are_taken_over-id-1049751.html&amp;amp;cid=1301692598&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGniC6okgpuRagE-PaqIrImIo6cLw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=9FSdyujfAN4J&amp;amp;imgurl=www.themoneytimes.com/filess/FDIC_3.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="41" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;The Money Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07bizbriefs-REGULATORSCL_BRF.html&amp;amp;cid=1301692598&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGPFOmz9apJXfQR1OYUqlLxoMQWXw"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Briefing | Company News Regulators Close Banks in Georgia &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;17 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By AP Regulators closed FirstBank Financial Services in Georgia, and County  Bank and Alliance Bank, both of California, bringing to nine the number of &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090207/BIZ/902070327/1005&amp;amp;cid=1301692598&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFGnpVraV_HNpHgfZqeAUrFHm_jDA"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; briefs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Jackson Clarion Ledger&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1301692598"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 518 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29063512/&amp;amp;cid=1301785254&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGB2idYsAdDTwUWdk7tzw73kuW8Aw"&gt;Building Collapses on Wires, Knocks Out Power, Disrupts Business - MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 01:57 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29063512/&amp;amp;cid=1301785254&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGB2idYsAdDTwUWdk7tzw73kuW8Aw"&gt;Building Collapses on Wires, Knocks Out Power, Disrupts &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;She owns the nearby Icehouse bar and says collapse and power outage cost her between $1500 and $2000 in lost &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;. We Energies says all affected &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6251153.html&amp;amp;cid=1301884708&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFV1M2W74E92sftNayz5CvqpAVDkw"&gt;Integrity crucial to how local BBB does business - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 10:15 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6251153.html&amp;amp;cid=1301884708&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFV1M2W74E92sftNayz5CvqpAVDkw"&gt;Integrity crucial to how local BBB does &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;17 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By ALAN VERA The national council of Better &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Bureaus has introduced a new &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; rating system. Pundits at the national and local levels have &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.independentmail.com/news/2009/feb/06/better-business-bureau-changes-grading-system/&amp;amp;cid=1301884708&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEOsrbmO7yqowakWXfYFH8rZdWgHw"&gt;Better &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Bureau changes grading system&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Anderson Independent Mail&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1301884708"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 2 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10158724-92.html&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFxupDCPbtmJuNCvItIy9huVSaoTg"&gt;Report: Pioneer to exit TV business - CNET News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i0070Sk4rN4c79GXk8skRmMjeDGw&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGX0ClBViLCRJt3CVluqxqyWR6G9A"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=GYtU6xxRveYJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5ioDPwvPtp2E3ail6FAdaV2RkCi1g" alt="" border="1" height="56" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;AFP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10158724-92.html&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFxupDCPbtmJuNCvItIy9huVSaoTg"&gt;Report: Pioneer to exit TV &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNET News, CA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;23 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Pioneer will no longer manufacture televisions and plans to spin off its DVD &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;  into a joint venture with Sharp, according to a report in Japan's &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUST13864720090207&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEgWVqQcN0PcJLxOo-ro-3KsrewBA"&gt;Japan's Pioneer may withdraw from flat TV &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/home-theater/%3Fp%3D276&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9hiFlJgmP4FRPqBA3b7IXPz0h5Q"&gt;Rumor: Pioneer is getting out of TV &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ZDNet Blogs&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i0070Sk4rN4c79GXk8skRmMjeDGw&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGX0ClBViLCRJt3CVluqxqyWR6G9A"&gt;Japan's Pioneer to quit flat-panel TV &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;: report&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;AFP&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.i4u.com/article23137.html&amp;amp;cid=1302025218&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH0Kk29mmeQlVYHvMu_5LYXtjGVVw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;I4U&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 07 Feb 2009 06:17 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020700614.html&amp;amp;cid=0&amp;amp;ei=4AeOSeaZO4uyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHHZnZppgCQhdeJEcuWIhZ6RAa2lA"&gt;A Sweet &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Model For a Pair of Chocoholics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Washington Post, United States -&lt;/span&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fref%3Dsmallbusiness&amp;amp;cid=1301774555&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHF8gkFy81ZeOry2nH43AvLm-RPgA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=qmeDruz0EZsJ&amp;amp;imgurl=graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/07/business/07sbiz.600.1.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="37" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html%3Fref%3Dsmallbusiness&amp;amp;cid=1301774555&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHF8gkFy81ZeOry2nH43AvLm-RPgA"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt; Critical of Stimulus Bills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;54 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By MICKEY MEECE As a huge stimulus package wends its way toward President Obama's desk, &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners say that all they really want is cash in the tills &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/small-business/2009/02/landrieu_small_business_to_ben.html&amp;amp;cid=1301774555&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEfG0tm63Me5_A2B4obJ61BU_yvxA"&gt;Landrieu: Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; to Benefit from Economic Plan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Post Blogs&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1301774555"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 3 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/feb2009/sb2009025_083042.htm%3Fchan%3Dsmallbiz_smallbiz%2Bindex%2Bpage_top%2Bsmall%2Bbusiness%2Bstories&amp;amp;cid=1301746496&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGAqrtG6WkpAmJOvV7JrrxAvFinPw"&gt;For Some Small Businesses, Recession Is Good News - BusinessWeek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 02:50 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL1ZNX8b7LBm58BoyaHGFZ_PzUQgD9668VSG0&amp;amp;cid=1301746496&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEWVhvzdpL5FbwkkmMLb0cigU2TVg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=XecV_lK1Ex4J&amp;amp;imgurl=www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5jVu5sbe_4Fw5wuTmlAnhtsP6yGKw" alt="" border="1" height="53" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;The Associated Press&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/feb2009/sb2009025_083042.htm%3Fchan%3Dsmallbiz_smallbiz%2Bindex%2Bpage_top%2Bsmall%2Bbusiness%2Bstories&amp;amp;cid=1301746496&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGAqrtG6WkpAmJOvV7JrrxAvFinPw"&gt;For Some Small &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt;, Recession Is Good News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;BusinessWeek -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;But the recession has also injected life into a slew of small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; that are thriving either in spite of or because of the economic downturn, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iL1ZNX8b7LBm58BoyaHGFZ_PzUQgD9668VSG0&amp;amp;cid=1301746496&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEWVhvzdpL5FbwkkmMLb0cigU2TVg"&gt;Resale shops are latest casualty of bad economy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Associated Press&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1301746496"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 69 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/health/06peanut.html%3Fref%3Dus&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGcZ8ICIpbmPIsiOjgJwqKrjWcHXQ"&gt;Peanut Supplier Banned From Federal Business - New York Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 08:09 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail%3Fblogid%3D46%26entry_id%3D35362&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGqs6UNPlBvQXkl6yrhlPHeino_kA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=77eqayGAERMJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/sfmoms/2009/02/03/0129dv_salmonella_latest.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="60" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/health/06peanut.html%3Fref%3Dus&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGcZ8ICIpbmPIsiOjgJwqKrjWcHXQ"&gt;Peanut Supplier Banned From Federal &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;20 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;David Shipman, an acting administrator at the Agriculture Department, said, "The actions of PCA indicate that the company lacks &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; integrity and &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAK98zdufcuY&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGDF0gBcTgcNWZvBE-9ZEQlBddb1g"&gt;Video: Meals Sent to Ky. Had Recalled Peanut Butter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;AssociatedPress&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AK98zdufcuY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AK98zdufcuY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/02/05/peanut_usda_ban.html&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEzDJc5YjA2ysrE7ggrOLoBLHFoyA"&gt;USDA bans Peanut Corp. from federal &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Atlanta Journal Constitution&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000719_Peanut_Corp_food_safety_banned.html&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE3XV4HOykpROVHkZiL2fW9cMmwgA"&gt;Peanut Butter Company Banned from &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; with Federal Government &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Natural News.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dailyherald.com/story/%3Fid%3D269841&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGZIN6b_QQopwwFU__eN5a1I--46A"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Chicago Daily Herald&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/peanut.company.suspension/&amp;amp;cid=1300541485&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMrxonrcD97_Sxzg6wB7GKcVGucA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CNN&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1300541485"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 4,256 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020600935.html&amp;amp;cid=1301629911&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9PXMSZZN4c8JuBdONh_6PaY5Kfw"&gt;paidContent.org - Verisign's Naming Business Health Checkup ... - Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 06:20 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020600935.html&amp;amp;cid=1301629911&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9PXMSZZN4c8JuBdONh_6PaY5Kfw"&gt;paidContent.org - Verisign's Naming &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Health Checkup &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Washington Post, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;9 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;For another sign of the times, have a closer look at Verisign's Internet naming &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; and its health during Q408: in its earnings announcement call &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0472018.htm&amp;amp;cid=1301625666&amp;amp;ei=vraMSc7xDYuyMZCIkakK&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH3Y0XLJc_1Pvd1BpL3J2RX-nzEPA"&gt;Monterey Gourmet Foods Provides Business Update - CNNMoney.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 06 Feb 2009 06:06 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29021426/&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEEx87qENQkldFaUdpDBLfARXXt6Q"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Assc. to open disaster loan outreach center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Nancy Porzio,Director of the US Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Administration's (SBA) Seattle District office, announced today that SBA will open a Disaster Loan Outreach &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/39147217.html&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGmu5i3hgdNyxs8XW35JO_Wpn7f0Q"&gt;Small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; 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can get loans to help with windstorm repairs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Springfield News Sun&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/loan/prweb1961764.htm&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFOyBK9UHmtCuBGT37kqrxTIcWn1Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;PR Web (press release)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.smartbrief.com/news/entrepreneurs/storyDetails.jsp%3Fissueid%3DAC3291C2-9D88-4CF2-B688-49C442441D99%26copyid%3D872035DD-ADEF-451B-847F-7BFD95C0F3D5&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGNrgZzPfQSofDrJo4WFA0qXrMKnw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;SmartBrief&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1299995375"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 75 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0471572.htm&amp;amp;cid=1301227424&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG1OL0mXjvn2Lsn1BEZkipNxuBEwg"&gt;VistaPrint Launches New Small Business Blog - CNNMoney.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 08:01 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0471572.htm&amp;amp;cid=1301227424&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG1OL0mXjvn2Lsn1BEZkipNxuBEwg"&gt;VistaPrint Launches New Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNNMoney.com -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Millions of small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners have turned to VistaPrint Limited (NASDAQ: VPRT) over the past eight years for marketing products and services. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily63.html&amp;amp;cid=1301252170&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH0KZ2z38IWizsJuqFaqzCJJnzakw"&gt;TecumsehPower sells Peerless business The Business Journal of ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 09:26 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily63.html&amp;amp;cid=1301252170&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH0KZ2z38IWizsJuqFaqzCJJnzakw"&gt;TecumsehPower sells Peerless &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; The &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal of &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Peerless transmissions &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;, located primarily in Salem, Ind.,  with limited operations in Grafton, designs and manufactures transmissions to outdoor &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/02/02/daily50.html&amp;amp;cid=1301238674&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdulJ0JTR-Jjc-LBM-nwlBxPHklA"&gt;Denver Business Journal, CBS4 team up on Beating the Recession - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 08:43 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/02/02/daily50.html&amp;amp;cid=1301238674&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEdulJ0JTR-Jjc-LBM-nwlBxPHklA"&gt;Denver &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal, CBS4 team up on "Beating the Recession"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;7 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Denver &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal and KCNC-TV (CBS4) Thursday announced that they have teamed up to present "Beating the Recession," a series of reports on local &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily71.html&amp;amp;cid=1301332079&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGW39DA1k9nGmwfuvFaWakWmwZ6LQ"&gt;Record entries for Wisconsin business plan contest - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 01:46 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily71.html&amp;amp;cid=1301332079&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGW39DA1k9nGmwfuvFaWakWmwZ6LQ"&gt;Record entries for Wisconsin &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; plan contest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;In its sixth year, the Wisconsin Governor's &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Plan Contest has attracted 326 entries, a 33 percent increase from last year's entrant count and nearly &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/05/ap6011668.html&amp;amp;cid=1301322602&amp;amp;ei=WmWLSdHhBJKgMuHbmaAP&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPv8SAdzScchlgqHb18kcj3WAHhQ"&gt;Children's Place to lower spending across business - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 05 Feb 2009 06:55 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2009/02/02/daily5.html&amp;amp;cid=1300044339&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEC33ICzhpFo_fQtzDEfx0p5GaOHg"&gt;Business index falls for Missouri, rises for Kansas - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 02:18 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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January's index number was 39.6 &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.kansas.com/business/updates/story/685573.html&amp;amp;cid=1300044339&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFSU1JmBDESGVmaIfpIPXHfAYObuQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; conditions move slightly higher&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Wichita Eagle&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://in.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idINN0243944620090202&amp;amp;cid=1300044339&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHryFgJXsJNEt-9VybNJC-d6J2Bhw"&gt;Mid-America economic gauge points to deeper recession&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters India&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.kxmc.com/News/327234.asp&amp;amp;cid=1300044339&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH8YX4udcBjw__qJb7t-xF8-zxYew"&gt;National recession hurting region, including ND | KXNet.com North &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3RUOkVcgct-J1jZh7MErQIu5iaAD963F0G81&amp;amp;cid=1300139990&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHNZOV4AZIEXkYQonGJJYmbchyl_w"&gt;Businesses fare better in Senate economic package - The Associated Press&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 12:12 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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tax refunds than House: report&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;International Business Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.reuters.com/article/managementIssues/idUSN0244345120090202&amp;amp;cid=1300139990&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHrLzXfYpOLoamcZ2iINtmcMY6fjA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/02/republicans-stimulus-address-housing-crisis&amp;amp;cid=1300139990&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEOK5NPj5d4s8qo8_MwmgD3Eal6Fw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;FOXNews&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1300139990"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 3,494 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601101%26sid%3DahMFvF0MkQbg%26refer%3Djapan&amp;amp;cid=1300056320&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHk-n9HU_7kxrvmPAMBKorJTXz5Xg"&gt;Union Says Isuzu in Talks to Buy GM’s Medium Truck Business - Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 02:54 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601101%26sid%3DahMFvF0MkQbg%26refer%3Djapan&amp;amp;cid=1300056320&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHk-n9HU_7kxrvmPAMBKorJTXz5Xg"&gt;Union Says Isuzu in Talks to Buy GM's Medium Truck &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bloomberg -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; sell assets to persuade Treasury that it will be viable and should keep $13.4 billion in pledged government loans GM says it needs to stay in &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20090202/AUTO01/902020414/1361&amp;amp;cid=1300056320&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFzAsDaJ9kltCgABsEXhgsfK-7dyQ"&gt;GM in talks with Isuzu to sell medium-duty truck &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;DetNews.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%2520News/2154032/&amp;amp;cid=1300056320&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHYBRiMpeA1tJeHYyVcqOIpiCQ1fA"&gt;GM in talks to sell medium-duty commercial truck &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; to Isuzu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Trading Markets (press release)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1300056320"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 5 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2009/02/the-memo-to-sta.html&amp;amp;cid=1300145259&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGwz62bArLOzBnk2op7yEFI-fVSEQ"&gt;Reporter Stuart Pfeifer joins Business section - Los Angeles Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 12:29 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2009/02/the-memo-to-sta.html&amp;amp;cid=1300145259&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGwz62bArLOzBnk2op7yEFI-fVSEQ"&gt;Reporter Stuart Pfeifer joins &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; section&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Los Angeles Times, CA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;What better background is there for a new assignment in &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;, using the courts as a mirror into the &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; world and the personalities that dominate &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/1/content/business/stories/2009/02/01/thomas_oliver.html&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPnmzWrtpMbrDZn7gipVg4SRL1Ng"&gt;Little help for small businesses - Atlanta Journal Constitution&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 09:44 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/2009/01/&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNES_-s8ESdCfQfwgYmu3Kx0kT0jng"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=LXNeYzXuvzgJ&amp;amp;imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/Memos_on_Man_art_257_20081114142520.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="60" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Wall Street Journal Blogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/1/content/business/stories/2009/02/01/thomas_oliver.html&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPnmzWrtpMbrDZn7gipVg4SRL1Ng"&gt;Little help for small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; create  more than half the new jobs. They contribute about half the country's gross domestic product. But they're too diverse to be a &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-cloutier/is-president-obama-really_b_163126.html&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMUQZAAmEqJ4o80WlOAHZM4vc-SQ"&gt;IS PRESIDENT OBAMA REALLY LISTENING? SMALL  &lt;b&gt;BUSINESS&lt;/b&gt; INC. WANTS TO KNOW&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D9771709%26nav%3Dmenu605_1&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNER8Ly3jDMEw5pOihvKDNtNNwEnBA"&gt;Community banks increase small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; loans&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;NTV&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24994445-5015795,00.html&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHSObYKloVUl6QLES_8Wrh0-w3MoA"&gt;Banks beat up small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;The Australian&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/02/2479748.htm&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEu1EUTSpF337FyuWOtTW2dQAH1og"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ABC Online&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/news/x1556210894/Alliance-president-testifies-for-small-business&amp;amp;cid=1299995375&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEX2Xx-87R0MzZNJfyLGecQkpMe9g"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Sulphur Southwest Daily News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1299995375"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 27 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-businesstaxes,0,7905950.story&amp;amp;cid=1300085139&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHMIBFmzx2WgCLPVY0sRQfXf1I_fg"&gt;State launches new program to help Wis. businesses - Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 11:51 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-businesstaxes,0,7905950.story&amp;amp;cid=1300085139&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHMIBFmzx2WgCLPVY0sRQfXf1I_fg"&gt;State launches new program to help Wis. &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Chicago Tribune, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;4 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;A new Internet-based program being offered by the state Department of Revenue is designed to help Wisconsin &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; manage their state tax accounts. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily9.html&amp;amp;cid=1299522436&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHOoEFnO0PTYJpE-PXeb3ZgTBakZA"&gt;Small businesses opposing hospital tax - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 12:25 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/02/02/daily9.html&amp;amp;cid=1299522436&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHOoEFnO0PTYJpE-PXeb3ZgTBakZA"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; opposing hospital tax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Jim Doyle's proposed hospital tax has gotten support from hospital industry officials and the state's largest &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; lobbying group, but there is still &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/02/02/daily13.html&amp;amp;cid=1300113501&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFLck7C5HsB8VW0d7ZfGZzailYmAQ"&gt;McClellan Business Park president honored - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 02 Feb 2009 01:28 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/02/02/daily13.html&amp;amp;cid=1300113501&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFLck7C5HsB8VW0d7ZfGZzailYmAQ"&gt;McClellan &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Park president honored&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Sacramento County selected McClellan &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Park LLC in 1999 to acquire and redevelop McClellan Air Force Base. 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line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/02/ap5996894.html&amp;amp;cid=1300141403&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGBxB95Ww-KfVFLDKd8o4BjLqeuQQ"&gt;Major &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; events scheduled for Tuesday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By AP , 02.02.09, 04:00 PM EST WASHINGTON - Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on ways to modernize the banking regulatory system. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/applied-materials-warns-weaker-quarter/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257B3C01AE39-ACD4-4467-B5D7-6C166D444EC6%257D&amp;amp;cid=1300011865&amp;amp;ei=LHGHSdn6NIHaMa2mjYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFwQacjwEYRyWfnOMXWsJAwjFRLRg"&gt;Semiconductor tool maker cites 'unprecedented &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; conditions'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MarketWatch -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;7 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; also said it will adopt further measures to cut costs, including plant shutdowns, to cope with what it called "unprecedented &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; conditions. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 12:59 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28951373/&amp;amp;cid=1299085230&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEYqm2xC01A02j6hZLOIYyZms9P0A"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt; Hurt By Mercedes Homes Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; are staggering, and employees are losing their jobs. Mercedes Homes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a West Palm Beach federal court on &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28949686/&amp;amp;cid=1299681075&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFsa5Gmu2bvQwCbNqjaTmJNd8SRHg"&gt;Carson City crime wave strikes businesses - MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 11:01 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28949686/&amp;amp;cid=1299681075&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFsa5Gmu2bvQwCbNqjaTmJNd8SRHg"&gt;Carson City crime wave strikes &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;5 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;A string of break-ins at Carson City &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; has &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners on edge, and Carson City authorities are urging residents to be on the lookout for &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-liwine026019905feb01,0,1404826.story&amp;amp;cid=1299568479&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEXkX6_A9roMmvry1bAqpzWPhPFIw"&gt;Many children of LI vineyard owners carry on business - Newsday&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 02:09 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-liwine026019905feb01,0,1404826.story&amp;amp;cid=1299568479&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEXkX6_A9roMmvry1bAqpzWPhPFIw"&gt;Many children of LI vineyard owners carry on &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Newsday, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;14 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Three of his daughters and his wife have taken larger roles in running the &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;, most notably daughter Kathy Le Morzellec, who had already been &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-md.suburban01feb01,0,2468577.story&amp;amp;cid=1299159204&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG805axfJHf62RApPBNq97LJZiZ4Q"&gt;Customers largely accept new ownership, say it feels like business ... - Baltimore Sun&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 04:57 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-md.suburban01feb01,0,2468577.story&amp;amp;cid=1299159204&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG805axfJHf62RApPBNq97LJZiZ4Q"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt2.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=ymNXE0QTY60J&amp;amp;imgurl=www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2009-02/44818912.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="53" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Baltimore Sun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-md.suburban01feb01,0,2468577.story&amp;amp;cid=1299159204&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG805axfJHf62RApPBNq97LJZiZ4Q"&gt;Customers largely accept new ownership, say it feels like &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Baltimore Sun, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;11 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Though by all appearances it was &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; as usual, yesterday was no ordinary day. After seizing Suburban Federal the night before, federal officials were &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11602808&amp;amp;cid=1299569711&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF0cdXzbndc-9ntaDZlDw08ZxSSow"&gt;Carson businesses cross fingers as session nears - San Jose Mercury News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 02:11 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11602808&amp;amp;cid=1299569711&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF0cdXzbndc-9ntaDZlDw08ZxSSow"&gt;Carson &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; cross fingers as session nears&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;San Jose Mercury News,  USA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;14 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Local &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; are hoping for an economic boost now that lawmakers, lobbyists and staffers are headed back to town for the 2009 Legislature—but given the &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2009/02/01/oliver0201.html&amp;amp;cid=1299518726&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFS_5GVsIBndrBz61tjRWUarPu-hA"&gt;Little help for small business - Atlanta Journal Constitution&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 31 Jan 2009 10:01 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/2009/01/&amp;amp;cid=1299518726&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEXPeqwj8MH59xfDX6tbz6IRGh3VA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=LXNeYzXuvzgJ&amp;amp;imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/Memos_on_Man_art_257_20081114142520.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="60" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Wall Street Journal Blogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2009/02/01/oliver0201.html&amp;amp;cid=1299518726&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFS_5GVsIBndrBz61tjRWUarPu-hA"&gt;Little help for small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;18 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By Thomas Oliver Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; create  more than half the new jobs. They contribute about half the country's gross domestic product. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/news/x1556210894/Alliance-president-testifies-for-small-business&amp;amp;cid=1299518726&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE0g2BOQ1Vu4Oipnvi8QWucKRsnpA"&gt;Alliance president testifies for small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Sulphur Southwest Daily News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/229690/&amp;amp;cid=1299518726&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGhgBPtETgGeJPWNz-zFsTtnLombw"&gt;It's time for small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; to take control&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6239788.html&amp;amp;cid=1299549595&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGyiGJvHV8DEjayfffGbc2T6YpYag"&gt;Small businesses can run into tax preparation pitfalls - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 01 Feb 2009 12:34 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6239788.html&amp;amp;cid=1299549595&amp;amp;ei=Dx-GSYPJOJ6eM-iClIcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGyiGJvHV8DEjayfffGbc2T6YpYag"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; can run into tax preparation pitfalls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;15 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By JOYCE ROSENBERG AP NEW YORK — Tax filing season can be a trying time for small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners, and in a recession, even more so. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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ready for Super Bowl watchers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Emporia Gazette, KS -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Whatever the reason, local &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; are ready. A quick telephone survey by The Gazette turned up these specials around town. 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/business/economy/31econ.html%3Fref%3Dbusiness&amp;amp;cid=1299351766&amp;amp;ei=MM6ESfHYM6HQMqWCkYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFcMVGsFCEqr-Yv_VaGkXHn5FWo2Q"&gt;Steep Slide in Economy as Unsold Goods Pile Up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;New York Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;Jan 30, 2009&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; investment, commercial construction, home building and exports all fell steeply, most of them doing so for the first time since the recession began &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsanM66tszKz1zFq0LOG4XvWS7zAD961NH482&amp;amp;cid=1299351766&amp;amp;ei=MM6ESfHYM6HQMqWCkYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG96MPRUz5SQ9gTwPM_urHJxAk0Pw"&gt;Economy's new plunge is worst in quarter-century&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28935694/&amp;amp;cid=1299171294&amp;amp;ei=MM6ESfHYM6HQMqWCkYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHXPzJiLVMJwHgn7ejpnZPioEx02A"&gt;Poor Bandwidth Choices Threaten Small Business Growth - MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28935694/&amp;amp;cid=1299171294&amp;amp;ei=MM6ESfHYM6HQMqWCkYcJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHXPzJiLVMJwHgn7ejpnZPioEx02A"&gt;Poor Bandwidth Choices Threaten Small  &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Growth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;21 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;ROCHESTER, NY - Small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; Web traffic has doubled over the past 15 months, but poor bandwidth choices may hinder  the growth of those &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; over &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/26/daily54.html&amp;amp;cid=1298913684&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG8j-MTS7LynnTl3DyV7zHme8bAqw"&gt;As DBED chief, Johansson vows to guide state's business community ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/26/daily54.html&amp;amp;cid=1298913684&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG8j-MTS7LynnTl3DyV7zHme8bAqw"&gt;As DBED chief, Johansson vows to guide state's &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; community &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Martin O'Malley nominated Johansson, former CEO of the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, to serve as secretary for the Maryland Department of &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.dbed30jan30,0,1410953.story&amp;amp;cid=1298913684&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGQdUqQJFLTzJr1DErtqPLxLS5Ulw"&gt;Governor to name Md. economic development chief&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Baltimore Sun&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/30/ap5988785.html&amp;amp;cid=1298913684&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEWAVhtto6yOYLlc9YtdLJI1tAILQ"&gt;Md. gov nominates economic development secretary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Forbes&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/business/null38711534.html&amp;amp;cid=1298913684&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEx_KPc9kaKhLruM121kfEKPPtpIA"&gt;News In Brief&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Baltimore Examiner&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1298913684"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 14 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11591817&amp;amp;cid=1299068943&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH3lFTyCJ198YUcGOFwT_GRJ4WsLQ"&gt;Report: New business court unneeded - San Jose Mercury News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 03:07 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11591817&amp;amp;cid=1299068943&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH3lFTyCJ198YUcGOFwT_GRJ4WsLQ"&gt;Report: New &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; court unneeded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;San Jose Mercury News,  USA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;A legislative subcommittee will support having Nevada &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; court judges publish decisions instead of pushing for a new chancery court. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/26/daily49.html&amp;amp;cid=1299036753&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGH81XsqrBeFcdLJosddoMK9lc4oQ"&gt;NFL reaches out to small businesses - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 10:16 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/01/26/daily49.html&amp;amp;cid=1299036753&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGH81XsqrBeFcdLJosddoMK9lc4oQ"&gt;NFL reaches out to small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Nearly 500 small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; owners received advice from a panel of former NFL players, BET Co-founder Sheila Johnson and Dawna Stone, publisher of Women's &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/30/ap5988266.html&amp;amp;cid=1299019908&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGQJsUYYig5i8brXs8f0aHleV3cGg"&gt;Raytheon appoints vice president of space business - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 09:50 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/30/ap5988266.html&amp;amp;cid=1299019908&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGQJsUYYig5i8brXs8f0aHleV3cGg"&gt;Raytheon appoints vice president of space &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;AP , 01.30.09, 10:39 AM EST Defense contractor Raytheon Co. said Friday it has appointed a veteran company executive to head its space systems &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl%3FACCT%3D104%26STORY%3D/www/story/01-30-2009/0004963469%26EDATE%3D&amp;amp;cid=1299019908&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHOakucQF9sUu7f7WR0Nx5OOkIA4w"&gt;Raytheon Makes Executive Changes in Space &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;PR Newswire (press release)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1299019908"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 18 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/01/26/daily53.html&amp;amp;cid=1299064682&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEUtm7zj-9gVDzI_R5k-L7w1c8A4w"&gt;City may nix forgiveable business loans - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 12:08 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/01/26/daily53.html&amp;amp;cid=1299064682&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEUtm7zj-9gVDzI_R5k-L7w1c8A4w"&gt;City may nix forgiveable &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; loans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;4 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Austin City Council will consider eliminating forgivable loans from  the city's &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Retention Program at its Feb. 12 meeting. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/30/0130loans.html&amp;amp;cid=1299064682&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF9891AthHq3pmZPIS1cI_NOprYlQ"&gt;Loan option that prompted Las Manitas debacle will be nixed, city &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Austin American-Statesman&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1299064682"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 4 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Health/story%3Fid%3D6762939%26page%3D1&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFbw9p9jThMaLm548pptaJQN6NFuw"&gt;Good for Business, Bad for Patients? - ABC News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 30 Jan 2009 06:41 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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&lt;nobr&gt;9 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;It's perfect. Pfizer buys Wyeth's pipeline, the behemoth marketing power of Pfizer gets leveraged, the work force gets consolidated and the $22 billion &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D32n0WQ_YX9A&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFARcxutBBjsy93WydYOziG41EnYA"&gt;Video: Pfizer buys Wyeth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ReutersVideo&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/32n0WQ_YX9A"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/32n0WQ_YX9A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/26/ap5965942.html&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGZ7Gn9V2_OqUA1CYEnKLiN_NjMhg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.freep.com/article/20090130/NEWS06/901300311/1008/NEWS/State%2BSenate%2BOKs%2Bcut%2Bin%2Bbusiness%2Bsurcharge&amp;amp;cid=1298916480&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH7_vnMQKUKKCyZNClaS-RLpXpSqA"&gt;State Senate OKs cut in &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; surcharge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Detroit Free Press, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;13 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;BY DAWSON BELL • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • January 30, 2009 LANSING -- A 22% surcharge on the Michigan &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Tax would be cut in half this year and &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D9759491%26nav%3D0RbQ&amp;amp;cid=1298916480&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF-PjcLdkP5jD4UgKLcMU_AgI1nDg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Tax Plan Repeal&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;WLNS&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.connectmidmichigan.com/news/news_story.aspx%3Fid%3D253197&amp;amp;cid=1298916480&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHGOzvbK7Ris5g8qsh7u-O00y8ItQ"&gt;MI Senate voted to repeal &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Tax Surcharge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ConnectMidMichigan.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/01/michigan_senate_votes_to_repea.html&amp;amp;cid=1298916480&amp;amp;ei=n3yDSbfpKo32MfCM-dgE&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFOoPi945wqp2XI5VH6pPIi049S8g"&gt;Michigan Senate votes to repeal biz tax surcharge&lt;/a&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0469780.htm&amp;amp;cid=1297257243&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGCsbp0VlfNJL_ux9ca7_D9v8ptVg"&gt;Beach &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Bank Reports Earnings for the Fourth Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNNMoney.com -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Beach &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Bank (OTCBB: BBBC) (the "Bank") is pleased to report its results of operations for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the year ended December 31, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://in.sys-con.com/node/824857&amp;amp;cid=1297257243&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHHZOjx49XAoQrLxP928WW5KmznHA"&gt;EFI Reports Q4 2008 Results&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0469980.htm&amp;amp;cid=1298713513&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG2qeD-Qucx0w7w98fSKIQLc7WneA"&gt;Legends Business Group Issues Letter to Shareholders: Strategic ... - CNNMoney.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 29 Jan 2009 02:22 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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(PINKSHEETS: LGBS) President and CEO Larry Powalisz issued the following letter to shareholders: In light of our nation's &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/01/28/axed-by-a-big-business-start-your-own/&amp;amp;cid=1296958166&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG3GY_9Jmi3PzWkAy8JvwLrylanXA"&gt;Axed by a big business? Start your own. - Christian Science Monitor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 04:14 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/01/28/axed-by-a-big-business-start-your-own/&amp;amp;cid=1296958166&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG3GY_9Jmi3PzWkAy8JvwLrylanXA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=BPELpMZu5MoJ&amp;amp;imgurl=features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/wp-content/assets/32/52/picture1.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="42" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Christian Science Monitor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/01/28/axed-by-a-big-business-start-your-own/&amp;amp;cid=1296958166&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG3GY_9Jmi3PzWkAy8JvwLrylanXA"&gt;Axed by a big &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;? Start your own.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Christian Science Monitor, MA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;Jan 28, 2009&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Even as more and more large companies hand out pink slips, budding do-it-yourselfers are starting new &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; – some of them far different from the jobs &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2009/01/26/daily29.html&amp;amp;cid=1296958166&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEVxGL7idMzgKFDhq8GsBl3QVOFsg"&gt;Small biz adds up to big biz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Bizjournals.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/%3FID%3D10985&amp;amp;cid=1296958166&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEFKb0jNSWXBAZss6Xy1POLe0pVEQ"&gt;AUDIO: Obama seen continuing Bush 'anti-small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;' policies&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/01/26/daily85.html&amp;amp;cid=1298698628&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvHHGcOq2D22lL0g1EVIHXgSUYvA"&gt;Nixon Peabody forms Israel business practice - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 29 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/01/26/daily85.html&amp;amp;cid=1298698628&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvHHGcOq2D22lL0g1EVIHXgSUYvA"&gt;Nixon Peabody forms Israel &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Nixon Peabody LLP launched an Israel &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; practice group to counsel Israeli companies and those doing &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; with them. Sam Feigin and Mark Kass, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/01/nixon_peabody_l.html&amp;amp;cid=1298698628&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHe7xGFcuQtUOR6UlIzAnABrWj5bQ"&gt;Nixon Peabody launches Israel &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; practice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Boston Globe&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1298698628"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 8 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/01/26/daily50.html&amp;amp;cid=1298737812&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGx9n6W2MrCKPlbSv0di7U90ujxyw"&gt;Colorado state government unveils one-stop website for business - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 29 Jan 2009 03:40 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2009/01/26/daily50.html&amp;amp;cid=1298737812&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGx9n6W2MrCKPlbSv0di7U90ujxyw"&gt;Colorado state government unveils one-stop website for &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;36 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Colorado state government on Thursday announced a new website designed to serve as a more efficient conduit between &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; and government agencies. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/managingyourmoney/archives/2009/01/income_tax_fili.html&amp;amp;cid=1298622911&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFyvUztxYn5VdC2w9TP-H8T7Y-Egg"&gt;Income tax filings for your small business - Boston Globe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 29 Jan 2009 10:48 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/managingyourmoney/archives/2009/01/income_tax_fili.html&amp;amp;cid=1298622911&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFyvUztxYn5VdC2w9TP-H8T7Y-Egg"&gt;Income tax filings for your small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Boston Globe, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;5 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;I own a small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; that I started in October 2008. Can I file my personal income tax separate from my &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;? My wife and I are the only owners and we &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/managingyourmoney/archives/2009/01/owning_a_small.html&amp;amp;cid=1298622911&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFRsqNk8FJniJi6aPUUkAz_PNZuXg"&gt;Owning a small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; can be taxing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Boston Globe&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1298622911"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 5 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/01/26/daily51.html&amp;amp;cid=1298687674&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHw7cjIdi76o-sjTnNepqI-Tdn3-w"&gt;WFU Babcock named among ‘world’s best’ The Business Journal of the ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 29 Jan 2009 12:53 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/01/26/daily51.html&amp;amp;cid=1298687674&amp;amp;ei=3yqCSaybMoegM76UvQk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHw7cjIdi76o-sjTnNepqI-Tdn3-w"&gt;WFU Babcock named among 'world's best' The &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal of the &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;3 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management is among the world's best &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; schools, according to the Financial Times newspaper of &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8331364&amp;amp;cid=1296262886&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGkj9L0eeLj-0SVZhzb18cnn6Z5hg"&gt;Obama says businesses, workers, need stimulus now - guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 10:49 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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&lt;nobr&gt;5 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;AP foreign, Wednesday January 28 2009 By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama says &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; and workers are &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D1--TyfRZzb0&amp;amp;cid=1296262886&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHXEq75q3VxkZB9SvM3ks0LmjFVtg"&gt;Video: Obama's Economic Address&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CBS&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1--TyfRZzb0"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1--TyfRZzb0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/28/Business_leaders_lend_support_to_Obama/UPI-71361233163855/&amp;amp;cid=1296262886&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGT3QE13EGxd_WY2FtWiEBjGaiHHQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; leaders lend  support to Obama&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;United Press International&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/28/obama-seeks-favorable-climate-business/&amp;amp;cid=1296262886&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEt5WF-qEmuBRMJFCoZSH-ddEmF4A"&gt;Obama seeks 'favorable climate' for &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Washington Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c94d5f7e-ed66-11dd-bd60-0000779fd2ac.html&amp;amp;cid=1296262886&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHllb0jiqybBeR7Ogd_0juolMTiBw"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Financial Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/28/sap-software-job-losses&amp;amp;cid=1298060282&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH0xN_qsv-mpF85DMTqFPjoSdgPvA"&gt;World's biggest &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; software company to cut 3000 jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;guardian.co.uk, UK -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;SAP, the world's biggest &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; software company, announced today it would shed 3000 jobs this year and warned that the cuts may yet go even deeper. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sap-cutting-over-3000-jobs/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257B2F23ABEC-AB84-4363-AFC4-8EB3C00387E0%257D%26dist%3Dmsr_40&amp;amp;cid=1298060282&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGGgvV0wQP0w9eRrmWzFxJJTBay1Q"&gt;SAP cutting over 3000 jobs as profit rises 13%&lt;/a&gt; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/01/26/daily52.html&amp;amp;cid=1298285275&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGsUy08maa1UQ1xLuUtH_SWd5OoBg"&gt;Donna Davis to lead Arizona Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Association&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Donna Davis, a veteran &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; leader and entrepreneur, will take the reins of the Arizona Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Association Feb. 2. The former Phoenix chapter &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSWLF00123720090128&amp;amp;cid=1298301701&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHN5lViYiAcqEGpdH_GQtc3GBjRvA"&gt;TEXT-NZX says in talks to sell TZ1 registry business - Reuters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 02:28 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSWLF00123720090128&amp;amp;cid=1298301701&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHN5lViYiAcqEGpdH_GQtc3GBjRvA"&gt;TEXT-NZX says in talks to sell TZ1 registry &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Reuters -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;WELLINGTON, Jan 29 - NZX Limited is in advanced discussions to sell its wholly owned registry &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; TZ1 Registry to Markit, a global financial &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.courant.com/business/hcu-businesses-0128,0,3658531.story&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHf9MN9EHVY35_WkskEgfwMD8xZtA"&gt;Record Number Of State Businesses Closed In 2008 - Hartford Courant&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 11:41 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_hartford_guards_plead_keep_pay_raises_200901141529_rev1&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFKk02eCCf1vNhpr_eYtPzB4lKotQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=w0WmisXUzWEJ&amp;amp;imgurl=media2.wtnh.com//photo/2008/10/15/CT-Capitol_20081015181432_320_240.JPG" alt="" border="1" height="60" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;WTNH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.courant.com/business/hcu-businesses-0128,0,3658531.story&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHf9MN9EHVY35_WkskEgfwMD8xZtA"&gt;Record Number Of State &lt;b&gt;Businesses&lt;/b&gt; Closed In 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Hartford Courant, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;4 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;By LYNN DOAN | The Hartford Courant A record number of Connecticut companies went out of &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; last year, Secretary of the State Susan  Bysiewicz reported &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/News_1/Record-number-of-Connecticut-businesses-shut-down-in-20084297.shtml&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG7IKZPIYzCq9rGAzMObO6cEUhsVw"&gt;Record number of  Connecticut &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; shut down in 2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Stamford Plus Magazine&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news7827.html&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEesALNuDZR_4gY6fVEMRgFNv5o9A"&gt;Bysiewicz: CT &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; failures  set 2008 record&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Hartford Business&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_hartford_smallbusinesssuffering_200901281200&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE2Rk-xHed02dvoHL7-i9_metAPQw"&gt;Small &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; suffering in Conn.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;WTNH&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.theday.com/re.aspx%3Fre%3Db9353775-fbfd-4017-8cbe-58a4a7f2d7b1&amp;amp;cid=1297480188&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGuuyhgW5R7wYH9dG1KtzxwosRk-Q"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;TheDay&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 02:57 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx%3FId%3D837041%26SMap%3D1&amp;amp;cid=1298155781&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGbYdbnBBJZKV3gOG-HLcAYkb669w"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=4dTqXZI-qZAJ&amp;amp;imgurl=www.rttnews.com/ArticleImages/USTopStories/2009/January/RBO-012809.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="80" width="70" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;RTT News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28891344/&amp;amp;cid=1298155781&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHfqYY5NbwGe-70yLF9g-OKklYmow"&gt;Resolve &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Outsourcing Income Fund Announces Corporate &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Resolve &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Outsourcing Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:  RBO.UN) today announced that it has implemented a restructuring plan that includes staff &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx%3FId%3D837041%26SMap%3D1&amp;amp;cid=1298155781&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGbYdbnBBJZKV3gOG-HLcAYkb669w"&gt;Resolve &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Outsourcing Restructured Into Single Entity &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;RTT News&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1298155781"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 11 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/01/26/daily28.html&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMvzvBAp0wLVP43BMdeZog-YXahA"&gt;Yahoo posts $303M Q4 loss The Business Journal of the Greater ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 28 Jan 2009 09:49 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm%3Fc_id%3D5%26objectid%3D10554014&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH4fA0xgDTddGxdGRa3ZOORtGzyDg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=k9lLoLt11nQJ&amp;amp;imgurl=media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/Yahoo2306.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="52" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;New Zealand Herald&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/01/26/daily28.html&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMvzvBAp0wLVP43BMdeZog-YXahA"&gt;Yahoo posts $303M Q4 loss The &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal of the Greater &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Yahoo Inc. reported a $303 million, or 22 cent per-share fourth quarter loss, compared to net income of $206 million, or 15 cents a share in the same period &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090128/BUSINESS/901280491/1003/BUSINESS&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFCWrF6dYGNpcA9HYA08BiTr-1jgQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BUSINESS&lt;/b&gt; WATCH&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Louisville Courier-Journal&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/technology/companies/28yahoo.html%3Fem&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEXNk6D41YvuxvI9hMBjzhfblVDyg"&gt;Yang's Era at Yahoo Ends With a Loss&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;New York Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/01/28/bartz_on_selling_parts_of_yahoo_this_is_not_a_comp.html&amp;amp;cid=1297883585&amp;amp;ei=itmASbKvHJfcMb-zvLQC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHnioY2YS-tGobwHfOTBhrm-hckuw"&gt;Bartz on selling parts of Yahoo: 'This is not a company that needs &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;nobr&gt;19 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;30, according to a study released today by Commonfund and the National Association of College and University &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Officers. 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climate worst in 27 years: survey&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3Dau_ARIUSA6bE%26refer%3Dhome&amp;amp;cid=1297145002&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG0xc5a39X_I7hugiK_f5ksFS544A"&gt;Companies in US to Slash More Jobs, &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Economists Say&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/news/economy/nabe_survey/%3Fpostversion%3D2009012600&amp;amp;cid=1297145002&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG_teFJ4eYnlmEvmCW184QZ1w9E4g"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;CNNMoney.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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&lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Financial Times&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl%3FACCT%3D104%26STORY%3D/www/story/01-27-2009/0004960868%26EDATE%3D&amp;amp;cid=1297601612&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFf4UT8-u6pYtk9-rxC0F4v-xeF0g"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;PR Newswire (press release)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.prweekus.com/New-Edelman-Trust-Barometer-finds-trust-in-US-companies-at-a-low/article/126407/&amp;amp;cid=1297601612&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE7UfUyxV0fFqqm91LGA05V1D-jXA"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;PRWeek&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1297601612"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 42 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28877043/&amp;amp;cid=1297846565&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrGjD6WCLmPeL6ZUvMJTFPxm5jOQ"&gt;Timeshare Sales Advertising Leader Hires Jay Bade to Head Business ... - MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 27 Jan 2009 03:01 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28877043/&amp;amp;cid=1297846565&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrGjD6WCLmPeL6ZUvMJTFPxm5jOQ"&gt;Timeshare Sales Advertising Leader Hires Jay Bade to Head &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;MSNBC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;He was the past Vice President, Eastern Region for Trading Places International, where he was responsible for &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; development in the eastern US, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/01/26/daily22.html&amp;amp;cid=1297792822&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEVd0Ep17L6PJjl-gEIThIMJK_Arg"&gt;Target announces layoffs The Business Review (Albany) - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 27 Jan 2009 03:07 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/01/26/daily22.html&amp;amp;cid=1297792822&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEVd0Ep17L6PJjl-gEIThIMJK_Arg"&gt;Target announces layoffs The &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Review (Albany)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; Target Distribution Center in Amsterdam. John Vomhof Jr. of the Minneapolis / St. Paul &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal, an affiliated publication, compiled this report.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/26/ap5965942.html&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHTGw2uxdU4ogFMcTikv7EvV70mKg"&gt;Business Highlights - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 26 Jan 2009 05:17 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/4345182/Pfizer-buys-Wyeth-for-68bn.html&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEOD60tu2B-3MEssBoc7KxwMcq8bg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt1.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=XfcFadjtTn4J&amp;amp;imgurl=www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01246/pfizer_1246724c.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="50" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Telegraph.co.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/26/ap5965942.html&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHTGw2uxdU4ogFMcTikv7EvV70mKg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Highlights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;23 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Downbeat comments from Caterpillar Inc. about the health of its &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; curbed the advance in the Dow Jones  industrials. Caterpillar Inc.'s fourth-quarter &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D32n0WQ_YX9A&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH0NPSiqzVUuLHFvYlRc7qh5-U6DQ"&gt;Video: Pfizer buys Wyeth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;ReutersVideo&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/32n0WQ_YX9A"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/32n0WQ_YX9A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="356" width="448"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-ap-business-newsbrief-935-am-est-/2009/01/26/3939301.htm&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEcnYU-RjUzQ8rft8CewHg7MQ4O7Q"&gt;AP &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; NewsBrief at 9:35 am EST&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;TMCnet&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/090126a/&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEaxvIjNzmMxLNwnsQCljgdCIUn_Q"&gt;Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler Explains Why The Wyeth  Buy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Nightly Business Report&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.kxmb.com/News/324298.asp&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGqhg0b4kTd6OdxOOPGvR0lRggV8w"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-5&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.aol.ca/article/20090126-pfizer-wyeth-urgent-reuse-story-id/499124/&amp;amp;cid=1296182442&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEGHu91jqQRZ2GMtBCFYXl3scYwrg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;AOL Canada&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1296182442"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 4,027 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0469026.htm&amp;amp;cid=1297710026&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEDBIYh46eHu4zOeYXq3v83-Bn7sA"&gt;Symantec Business Customers Send Their Data Backups to the Cloud - CNNMoney.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 27 Jan 2009 07:06 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0469026.htm&amp;amp;cid=1297710026&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEDBIYh46eHu4zOeYXq3v83-Bn7sA"&gt;Symantec &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Customers Send Their Data Backups to the Cloud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNNMoney.com -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;9 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that Cameron Consultation, mmolecule and Stratis &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Systems, Inc. have implemented Symantec Online Backup to &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3DaR2IoI9bgvjE%26refer%3Dhome&amp;amp;cid=1297489188&amp;amp;ei=E4h_SffAEJ6eM67b7aMC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEX2m3qV5QD-ftZMpDGfHp6Qqbn6w"&gt;Australian Business Confidence Rises From Record Low - Bloomberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 26 Jan 2009 07:05 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/26/oerlikon-semiconductor-sale-markets-equity-cx_je_0126markets19.html&amp;amp;cid=1297182793&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFDT_-luL8PxeKh6FdzSM8sxvPiRg"&gt;Oerlikon Ditches Loss-Making Chip &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;32 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The Swiss technology company sold its semiconductor &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; but didn't reveal the amount it received. 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&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNNMoney.com -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;8 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s recently released &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/01/26/daily6.html&amp;amp;cid=1297303704&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHFlvM8TueFi0O2SVehQYoaR-00LQ"&gt;Caterpillar slashing 20000 jobs Minneapolis / St. Paul Business ... - Bizjournals.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 26 Jan 2009 02:23 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/01/26/daily6.html&amp;amp;cid=1297303704&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHFlvM8TueFi0O2SVehQYoaR-00LQ"&gt;Caterpillar slashing 20000 jobs Minneapolis / St. Paul &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Bizjournals.com, NC -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;1 hour ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;In addition, Caterpillar Paving Products, of Brooklyn Park, employs about 700 people, according to &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Journal research. 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/retail/stories/012709dnbustigi.7263e47.html&amp;amp;cid=1297328384&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHV-CJB3_3Jf1xNmM3qeJZsO_l52A"&gt;Unilever buys Toni Guy hair products business, schools 3:15 PM CT - Dallas Morning News&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 26 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/retail/stories/012709dnbustigi.7263e47.html&amp;amp;cid=1297328384&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHV-CJB3_3Jf1xNmM3qeJZsO_l52A"&gt;Unilever buys Toni&amp;amp;Guy hair products &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;, schools 3:15 PM CT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Dallas Morning News, TX -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;58 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Toni&amp;amp;Guy Holdings Inc. said Monday it has agreed to sell its TIGI professional hair product &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; and its education academies for $411.5 million in cash &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUKTRE50P4DJ20090126&amp;amp;cid=1297328384&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEk26Y816vy2o7OplKJuzR2Wbm8Bw"&gt;Unilever buys into hair salon products with TIGI&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Reuters&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2009/01/26/daily7.html&amp;amp;cid=1297328384&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGT8Qg88ySR1ROh-T-u5JOy0Obtpg"&gt;Unilever to buy TIGI&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Bizjournals.com&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp%3FaId%3D85531&amp;amp;cid=1297328384&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEoTcmoQO55t6idgq3baMIrvmAWWQ"&gt;Unilever moves to premium hair care&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;WebWire (press release)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1297328384"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 42 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/26/ap5965403.html&amp;amp;cid=1297418638&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEAhHWVQmpXLgSufVMhWsiZKGveeA"&gt;Vegas business group: Cap public employee benefits - Forbes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 26 Jan 2009 03:44 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/9-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/26/ap5965403.html&amp;amp;cid=1297418638&amp;amp;ei=ujZ-SfvxMZjcMbeyyawC&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEAhHWVQmpXLgSufVMhWsiZKGveeA"&gt;Vegas &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; group: Cap public employee benefits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Forbes, NY -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;34 minutes ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; Affairs Committee  Chairman Hugh Anderson said in a statement listing the powerful &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; group's top issues for the legislative session beginning Feb. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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    h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! important;}     div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div ul {      list-style-type:square;      padding-left:1em;    }      div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div blockquote {     padding-left:6px;     border-left: 6px solid #dadada;     margin-left:1em;    }      div#emailbody table#itemcontentlist tr td div li {     margin-bottom:1em;     margin-left:1em;    }      table#itemcontentlist tr td a:link, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:visited, table#itemcontentlist tr td a:active {     color:#88AC0B;     font-weight:bold;     text-decoration:none;    }      img {border:none;}     &lt;/style&gt; &lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="emailbody" style="margin: 0pt 2em; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table id="itemcontentlist" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); clear: both; padding-top: 0.5em;"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p xmlns="" style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6225514.html&amp;amp;cid=1296994320&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrk4G-t33aQ4xltFWI2Ub-ZcVLUQ"&gt;Houston might need to sit tight, business minds say - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 01:21 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6225514.html&amp;amp;cid=1296994320&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFrk4G-t33aQ4xltFWI2Ub-ZcVLUQ"&gt;Houston might need to sit tight, &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; minds say&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;He believes the economy is better in Houston than most folks believe and  much of the contraction stems from an overreaction by &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008669419_weborestore25.html&amp;amp;cid=1296996794&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGoXNu2__f-2sonb4YXjyA6HDVg6w"&gt;NE Oregon town's only business closing - Seattle Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 01:37 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/1-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008669419_weborestore25.html&amp;amp;cid=1296996794&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGoXNu2__f-2sonb4YXjyA6HDVg6w"&gt;NE Oregon town's only &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; closing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Seattle Times, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The bad economy has claimed all the &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; in a northeastern Oregon town — the Adams Store and Cafe. Owner  Barbara Beamer says rising. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6227889.html&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFUOKFQJC21WmtYVIzMrLb8JDyNDQ"&gt;Small-business resources - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 12:46 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6227889.html&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFUOKFQJC21WmtYVIzMrLb8JDyNDQ"&gt;Small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;15 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Money Management Workshop: 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Palm Center, 5330 Griggs Road. Hosted by SCORE: Counselors to America's Small &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt;. Cost: $10. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.times-standard.com/business/ci_11550182&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF0kDQpXKokhWkBzatho56_AvjKrg"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; support programs offered in Eureka&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Times-Standard&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20090125/Biz/901250451/1013/Biz&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEZpVGFJtjmp2yuJJTFB96qzmAh-w"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BUSINESS&lt;/b&gt; MEETINGS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;South Bend Tribune (subscription)&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-3&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2009/01/25/business/beth_pratt/doc497bf5db16321833550360.txt&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFUn55QYXPTe9so4e2szuJJM5JKjA"&gt;Help is here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Napa Valley Register&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-4&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6227911.html&amp;amp;cid=1296835760&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEh3y_vI_IAxEustR8vDj797lYnTg"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;Houston Chronicle&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1296835760"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 5 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6228914.html&amp;amp;cid=1296935437&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGf9TxPCUYBFVDB66ze-1e7nCeYaA"&gt;Weak economy strangling small businesses (w/video) - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 24 Jan 2009 10:36 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6228914.html&amp;amp;cid=1296935437&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGf9TxPCUYBFVDB66ze-1e7nCeYaA"&gt;Weak economy strangling small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; (w/video)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;17 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Why small &lt;b&gt;businesses&lt;/b&gt; are important to America's economy. Sorry, your version of Flash doesn't support this video. Please download the latest version at &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/dailycols/6227512.html&amp;amp;cid=1296971820&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEht7dsCanhnrKR-eEsMo56JJTBGw"&gt;Dear Abby: Lack of sympathy over business problems hurts - Houston Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 12:33 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/4-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/dailycols/6227512.html&amp;amp;cid=1296971820&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEht7dsCanhnrKR-eEsMo56JJTBGw"&gt;Dear Abby: Lack of sympathy over &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; problems hurts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Houston Chronicle, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;15 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Because of the downturn in the economy, I had to close my &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt;. Let me tell you this — if anyone wants to know who their real friends are, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-studentinvestors,0,1027041.story&amp;amp;cid=1296944272&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFIjda2loDyEWfUI16U6RgRL3WtzQ"&gt;Business students manage part of WMU's portfolio - Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 09:32 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/5-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-studentinvestors,0,1027041.story&amp;amp;cid=1296944272&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFIjda2loDyEWfUI16U6RgRL3WtzQ"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; students manage part of WMU's portfolio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Chicago Tribune, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;6 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Fifteen Western Michigan University &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; students are charged with investing $500000 this semester, and it's not Monopoly money. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/25/iceland.resignation/&amp;amp;cid=1296984195&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMSyLSD40ZRYvMkxuQrn2eCzSzjg"&gt;Iceland business minister resigns - CNN&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 25 Jan 2009 08:50 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6i-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Credit-Crunch-Icelandic-Minister-For-Commerce-Bjorgvin-Sigurdsson-Steps-Down/Article/200901415209941%3Flpos%3DWorld_News_Top_Stories_Header_4%26lid%3DARTICLE_15209941_Credit_Crunch%253A_Icelandic_Minister_For_Commerce_Bjorgvin_Sigurdsson_Steps_Down&amp;amp;cid=1296984195&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG-5BfxH7IJkeISiFKfJ-mt4l_hUA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=SKC1xP5PW28J&amp;amp;imgurl=news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2009/Jan/Week4/15209960.jpg" alt="" border="1" height="80" width="80" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-2;"&gt;Sky News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/25/iceland.resignation/&amp;amp;cid=1296984195&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGMSyLSD40ZRYvMkxuQrn2eCzSzjg"&gt;Iceland &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; minister resigns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;CNN -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;7 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;(CNN) -- Iceland's Minister of &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Affairs Bjorgvin Sigurdsson resigned Sunday, three months after the collapse of several of the country's leading &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-1&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/25/Icelands_business_minister_resigns/UPI-37661232911063/&amp;amp;cid=1296984195&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGIUurm7etLjNhMAIi2Q5_Br5jczQ"&gt;Iceland's &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; minister resigns&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;United Press International&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/6-2&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/%3Fcat_id%3D21123%26ew_0_a_id%3D318915&amp;amp;cid=1296984195&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE8iHor6HyuXNzQBiwyKRmT0uGLkQ"&gt;Iceland's Minister for &lt;b&gt;Business&lt;/b&gt; Affairs Resigns&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:-1;color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;IcelandReview&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="p"  style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;amp;ned=us&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;ncl=1296984195"&gt;&lt;nobr&gt;all 223 news articles&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/01/25/jobssmallbiz0125.html&amp;amp;cid=1296789628&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG9mcYPTHF0WkhYK4i8-7gKHDIYfQ"&gt;Small-business hopes flourish - Atlanta Journal Constitution&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 24 Jan 2009 09:05 PM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="j" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 0.8em;"&gt;&lt;img src="" alt="" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="lh"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/7-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/01/25/jobssmallbiz0125.html&amp;amp;cid=1296789628&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG9mcYPTHF0WkhYK4i8-7gKHDIYfQ"&gt;Small-&lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; hopes flourish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;19 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Would anyone even think about starting a &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; today? Yes. And some people  should, said Lydia Jones, director of the Kennesaw State University Small &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/8-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28813308/&amp;amp;cid=1296941765&amp;amp;ei=7uR8SYbBC5vOMvPPyOYJ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF0gyzvWKcNQG5lTHBPcs6buZckBw"&gt;SCI Engineered Materials, Inc. 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&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/2-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR2009011602400.html&amp;amp;cid=0&amp;amp;ei=bZN7Sb5fgdox4M_Q3gk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGdYJLkO1oHWd6t_jlhJT2MmWNb0A"&gt;A former business manager finds that being laid off comes with ... - Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 9px 0pt 3px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;span&gt;Posted:&lt;/span&gt; 24 Jan 2009 06:08 AM CST&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" width=""&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="80"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; 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manager finds that being laid off comes with &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6f6f6f;"&gt;Washington Post, United States -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;nobr&gt;10 hours ago&lt;/nobr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Then she went to the career development and outplacement firm  Lee Hecht Harrison, where she became &lt;b&gt;business&lt;/b&gt; manager for its regional offices. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.4em;"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 1em 0pt 3px; line-height: 115%;"&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;amp;ct=us/3-0&amp;amp;fd=R&amp;amp;url=http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/business/bzlibrarya0126,0,5263927.story&amp;amp;cid=1296498721&amp;amp;ei=bZN7Sb5fgdox4M_Q3gk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE98BEKdsAyiMZtwxYrlKxzz3tzoA"&gt;Should libraries be run as businesses? - Newsday&lt;/a&gt; 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It's going to make them more efficient and put more books on the shelves. 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