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Despite higher fuel costs, retailers cut shipping rates (USA Today)
Much higher fuel costs this season raised fears that free or cut-rate shipping would go the way of $2.50-a-gallon gas. But as retailers grapple with the shaky U.S. economy, many have calculated that they can't afford to put off shoppers with hefty shipping costs, even if it means eating higher fuel costs.
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Firm to begin work at St. Michael's (Fall River Herald News)
Northern Contracting Corp. recently received notice to proceed on the renovation at the former St. Michael’s Church set to be converted into a Council on Aging and Community Center building.
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Crafting Eases Cash Crunch During Giving Season (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
With the tightening economy and higher gas and food prices, the Craft & Hobby Association is reminding families that it doesn't take a lot of money to show friends and family how much you love them by providing tips from their Celebrate the Season annual promotion.
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Fort Worth entrepreneur raises the bar in charitable giving (Fort Worth Business Press)
Elliot and Heather Goldman count their blessings every day. Like most philanthropists, the Fort Worth couple feels blessed with all they have and enjoy creating blessings for others.
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Entrepreneur's tide comes in with souvenirs (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The little souvenir bottle filled with seashells and sand that you brought back to Milwaukee from Sanibel Island may have made a round trip.
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Games bring story full circle (Asheboro Courier-Tribune)
ASHEBORO — Watching the Beijing Olympics brings back memories of a long-ago trip to China for Earlene and Walter Ward — and of the young tour guide they met there who later lived in Asheboro for a time.
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Tim bits (The Buffalo News)
It's a children's story set in a town whose macabre residents have skeletal faces, razor-sharp teeth and limbs sewn together.
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A spa, spa better thing (The Australian)
HOW long before travellers start planning their accommodation around the quality of a property's spa as well as (or even rather than) its accommodation?
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Christmas comes in August for charity (Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register)
A small, pink Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and Cinderella toys. A space-age tree, featuring Star Trek action figures and the biography of George Takei.
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Steel workers may strike if contract talks continue without compromise (WNDU 16 South Bend)
Employees at I/N Tek I/N Kote in New Carlisle voted unanimously to allow their union president to join 15 other presidents across the country in declaring a strike, if their concerns aren't met.
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