Business Columns
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Bensenville company upgrades Web siteAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - A Bensenville-based water treatment firm has launched some upgrades to its Web site, offering more features for clients and aiming to expand its business. Earthrise Envi...
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Webinars can be cost-effective meeting optionAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - It may be time to get into webinars. Elgin's Lending Solutions Consulting, Inc., offers two service levels to the credit unions it serves: For $495 annually, a credit un...
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Be a couch potato on Thrift Savings PlanAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Q: I saw your advice to a Seattle reader who had lost some money in the government Thrift Savings Plan. I also have over $100,000 in the TSP. I have been investing conse...
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Despite gains, women still have much to achieveAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - In the 1970s, there was an Enjoli perfume commercial showing a woman, clutching a fist full of money, who proclaimed she could bring home the bacon and fry ...
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New store uses toys as learning toolsAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - When Sarah Flanagan missed her son's ice cream social at school she knew it was time to change her lifestyle. Flanagan was working about 70 hours a week and traveling w...
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Microsoft's Web 'Synth' offers 3-D photo tourAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Microsoft is a little like the General Motors of technology. The software giant is, of course, much more successful, financially and in market share, than the troubled a...
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iKaput.com now kaput? Internet repair service fails to return iPodsAug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - When Holly Figliola of Johnsburg, near McHenry, realized her iPod was broken, she searched the Internet for a repair service. She found iKaput.com of Pleasant Grove, Uta...
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Founder of new school knows what it means to have learning problemsAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - When Eric Cooper entered the sixth grade, he was unable to read. After a great deal of testing, tutors and frustration, his parents discovered he suffered with childhood...
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Virtual trade shows offer lower-cost sales venueAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - With no travel costs, low-cost do-it-yourself booth design and an ability to quickly find the best leads among visitors to your booth, virtual trade shows present an int...
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Recognizing the different annuitiesAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Q: I would like to know the difference between a variable annuity and a life annuity. A few years ago I invested $100,000 in a tax-deferred variable annuity. Later, I ca...