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January 31, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Wealthy's belt-tightening chokes blue-collar workers

It's hard to feel sorry for well-heeled shoppers whose idea of tough economic times is passing on $1,000 Burberry raincoats or that $300 limo ride while the working poor skimp on vegetables and take the bus.But economists say that recent signs of cutting back by the affluent could hurt the economy and deliver even more pain to lower-income workers, who are dependent on their business and fat tips.
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December 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

Summers, Geithner have baggage, not fatal flaws

Lawrence Summers is a brilliant, sometimes arrogant economist who can be hard to work with. Timothy Geithner, whose sharp mind has been honed by five years of dealing with the heads of the world's largest financial institutions, got his job as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank partly because he is easy to work with.
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November 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Official says United, Delta have discussed combining; airlines deny it

ATLANTA AP - UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and DeltaAirLines Inc. have been discussing a combination between the nation's second- and third-largest carriers that would keep the United name and the corporate headquarters in Chicago, The Associated Press has learned.But Delta issued a statement denying "published reports that it had engaged in merger talk with United.
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April 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Working on the workforce

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June 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Tax exemption under review

Advocates of nonprofit groups on Tuesday watched a lawyer try to persuade the Georgia Supreme Court that an Athens suicide prevention center should not be required to pay property taxes. Some of them looked nervous. They fear that if attorney James C. Warnes II loses the case, then historic houses, art centers and other nonprofit facilities that rent their space could also lose their property-tax-exempt status.
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April 30, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Voices from the field

Erika C. Birg, partner, Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough:When I was a junior associate, the partner for whom I worked made clear that while I may dislike document review, it provided job security because I knew the documents. The same is true today; the only difference is how we get to a manageable set to "know."Long ago we ceased using entry-level associates to man large-scale document review.
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April 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Companies sweat over bonus turmoil

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October 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Brands step in as music labels' budgets shrink

Irish rockers U2 will step on stage today in Tampa, Fla., helped by BlackBerry's sponsorship of their world tour in a deal no record company could offer. Research In Motion Ltd.'s "BlackBerry Loves U2" advertising campaign is part of a trend where brands are stepping into the breach as plummeting sales shrink music labels' marketing budgets.
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September 24, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Big Names In Legal Community Made Appearances In 'The Book'

Although none of their portraits were particularly flattering, some well-known Georgia lawyers made appearances in John Berendt's best-seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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August 03, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Section to advocate internationally for disabled

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