Jury Gives Sales Tax Incentive To 3 Firms

The strong opposition by some Rapides Parish police jurors last week to giving a tax rebate to three companies over concerns that it could erode parish revenues did not prevail Monday during the final vote.
After some deliberation on the pros and cons of the rebate, the Police Jury concluded the issue with an 8-1 vote [...]

Pr People Wasting Journalists Time

Professional “communicators” of all kinds are wasting their time trying to pitch stories to the European press, concluded APCO consultants in a survey carried out in co-operation with Journalists at Your Service (J YS), a help centre for Brussels-based reporters.
“Most PR people are wasting both journalists’ time and their own much of the time,” concluded [...]

Sales Of Gold Increase In Dubai

Sellers and traders at gold market in Dubai have expected the increase of sales of gold during summer by an average between 20 – 25 % compared to the same period of last year as a result of an expected more demand during this period which witnesses a great number of celebrations and weddings as [...]

Harvey Normans Interest Wanes

THE days of interest-free finance periods stretching close to four years at Harvey Norman are numbered as the consumer electronics retailer seeks to rein in costs.
“The cost of doing those interest-frees is not cheap,” company chairman Gerry Harvey told BusinessDay.
“We do 44 months (interest free), but that’s too long. We can’t afford to do that. [...]

City Of Phoenix Receives National Recognition For Excellence In Technology

The Public Technology Institute (PTI), a national, non-profit technology organization that promotes the use of technology to achieve excellence in local governance and management, recently recognized the city of Phoenix with 2007-2008 Technology Solutions Awards.
These annual awards recognize local governments that best demonstrate how they apply technology to improve service delivery, reduce operating costs and [...]

Bucs One Win From Sectional Title

The Buckhannon-Upshur Buccaneers certainly made a statement to the Elkins Tigers that this was going to be their tournament to win in the Region II, Section 4 winner’s bracket game Tuesday night at Robin Harvey Memorial Field.
The Bucs, who backed into the tournament with a four-game losing streak and were outscored by a 55-18 margin [...]

Arkansas State Gets To FaArkansas State Gets To Fau Pen, Top Owls

Florida Atlantic University’s bullpen walked in two runs during a five-run Indians’ eighth inning that allowed visiting Arkansas State University an 8-2 win over FAU Friday.
On just two hits Arkansas State (19-30; 8-17 SBC) plated five runs in the eighth, spoiling another quality start turned in by FAU lefty Jeff Beliveau.
Florida Atlantic (26-23; 12-11 SBC) [...]

Cowboys Eagles A Rivalry Revamped

The Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys have one of the most storied rivalries in professional sports.
Recently, instead of two closely matched teams battling on the gridiron, it has been one heavily favored team over an underdog fighting an uphill battle, with the occasional upset sprinkled in.
Last year, the underdog was Philadelphia. In the first [...]

Ranking The Teams From 1 To 32 And Oakland Isn’t Dead Last

There might be a Lito Sheppard trade between now and training camp, and Jerry Jones might pay dearly for Chad Johnson before Labor Day. But it’s May, and the offseason personnel side of the business is mostly over.
Now that every team has done just about every significant thing it can do before opening day, let’s [...]

Play Off Final Proves A Bridge Too Far

WARE bowed out of the Ryman League play-offs at the Oakside Stadium last night (Tuesday) when they failed to cope with the conditions as well as their hosts did.
Redbridge won through to Saturday’s promotion decider against Canvey Island with a 4-2 victory after falling behind in the opening minutes.
To cap a miserable night for Glen [...]

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