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A native of Ecuador, Ms. Vaca comes from three generations of entrepreneurs. Ms. Vaca started Pinnacle, an information technology and administrative staffing firm, in 1996 out of her living room. A little more than a decade later, Pinnacle is estimated to reach $140 million in sales in 2007. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company has 2,000 consultants across more than 40 states. Pinnacle has since introduced its own Web-based software tool called Progata. The application streamlines in-house operations and communications among IT managers, sourcing managers, and third-party staffing providers. Pinnacle's roster of Fortune 500 clients include AT&T, Pepsi Co., and Verizon.The company extols its human capital as the company's foundation. Among Pinnacle's key priorities is finding top talent: one of the company's biggest challenges."Whether you're a $1 million company or a $200 million company, the message is the same," Ms.
Winning with women
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama won the women's vote 35 percent to 30 percent over U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, who finished third. New Hampshire primaries Clinton won over women, which helped her erase an Obama lead and win New Hampshire. Clinton won women 45 percent to 36 percent over Obama. Nevada caucuses Clinton won women and edged Obama in overall voting. In Nevada, women supported Clinton over Obama 51 percent to 38 percent. Nearly 6 in 10 Nevada caucus voters were women. .
More Than a Rabble Rouser?
I'm echoing the sentiments of my members when I use that sort of language." He sent an e-mail later that day backing down from his earlier statements, however, calling his word choice in the 2005 e-mail “a bit unwise, and probably inappropriate. However, the sentiment behind the note was heartfelt and quite accurately reflective of the sentiment exhibited by the borrowers who I hear from." Collinge’s "full speed ahead" mentality has made even some advocates for loan reform — those who are generally on his side of the issue — question his effectiveness at times. “Frankly, the way that they presented themselves in the beginning, it was very extreme. [Collinge] seemed very obsessed; I wasn't sure what he had to contribute," says Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006) and its blog.
E-mail? C ya ltr; it's a txt world 4 teenz
And teens instinctively gravitate to what is not part of their parents' world. "I text my dad sometimes, but my mom doesn't really understand how it works," says Emily Saunders, a sophomore at Atlanta's Marist School. She says she averages about 50 text messages every day between the time she gets out of school and bedtime, about six hours. She has a Gmail account through Google, "but I haven't used that in a year or so," she adds dismissively. She got the account mainly because an e-mail account was required to register for iTunes. There can even be a little element of rebellion in teens preferring technology that is not part of their parents' lives. "There's not as much of a generation gap today on some things between teens and their parents," says Iconoculture's Robinson, "but there's always going to be a element of 'This is mine and you can't possibly understand it.'" E-mail not as intense Young communicators also view Facebook and Myspace as being more interesting and intense than old-fashioned e-mail.
Home » NBR Comment » Sub-prime? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Sub-editors can spend their upcoming Christmas break drafting banner headlines in preparation for the sub-prime mortgage debacle that is set to unfold in 2008. While the sub-prime Titanic has been one of the major financial market stories of this year, so far it has simply scraped along the side of the iceberg. But over the four quarters of next year it will finally get holed and sink. What is the scale of this disaster waiting to happen? For the answer we need to look at the footnotes to the March 27 US House of Representatives testimony on sub-prime mortgages and their alt-A cousins by the US Federal Reserve’s consumer and community affairs division director, Sandra Braunstein. Of the 43 million first lien mortgages outstanding in the US, over 75 per cent are held by prime borrowers, 13 per cent to 14 per cent are sub-prime and the rest are alt-A.
Short sales increase as housing slump deepens
Investor Harold Stark paid $365,000 for a three-bedroom Boynton Beach townhouse last year. But the monthly mortgage payments soon started to feel like a noose around his neck.
His property's value dropped below what he still owed, $329,000. But rather than letting the townhouse fall into foreclosure, Stark worked out a deal in which he sold it for $285,000, and his lender, Chase Home Finance, forgave the difference.
"I got out of the quicksand, where I was sinking and sinking and sinking," the 74-year-old Delray Beach resident said last week. "It's such a burden off my chest."
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Chorus of approval for George Burley from Scottish coaches
1978 Member of the Ipswich side which upset the odds to defeat Arsenal 1-0 in FA Cup Final.
1981 Injury forces him out of Ipswich’s Uefa Cup final triumph over AZ Alkmaar. But Town miss out on the first division title on last day, finishing runners-up to Aston Villa and beaten by Manchester City in FA Cup semi-final.
1985 Joins Sunderland after making 500 appearances for Ipswich.
1988 Joins Gillingham.
1989 Joins Motherwell.
1990 Appointed player-manager of Ayr United.
1993 Moves to Falkirk as a player before returning to Motherwell as player-coach.
1994 June: Crosses border again to become player-manager of Colchester United and makes promising start at Layer Road. December: Returns to Ipswich four days after resigning at Colchester.
Overdose deaths on the rise, CDC says
The investigation into actor Heath Ledger's death Monday as a possible drug overdose is bringing attention to a nationwide health crisis: Overdose fatalities have risen dramatically in the United States since 1999, largely because of prescription drugs.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unintentional poisoning deaths -- 95% of which are drug overdoses -- increased from 12,186 in 1999 to 20,950 in 2004.
And during that time, prescription drugs overtook cocaine and heroin combined as the leading cause of lethal overdoses, said Dr. Len Paulozzi, a CDC injury prevention expert.
Overdose deaths have been increasing since the early 1990s. But the recent rise has been so dramatic that it is driving the first sustained increase in 25 years in the nation's overall injury death rate, Paulozzi wrote in a study published last month.
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