Investors move from stocks to safer options after 9 11 and scandals
A survey of about 1 000 Farmers Financial Solutions agents finds over 85 percent say clients pulled investments from stocks into conservative choices after the Sept 11 attacks and accounting scandals. Sixty two percent doubt government protections work. Banks are the top alternative.
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Post recession work pace rises as layoffs persist
CareerBuilder survey of 1,400 workers finds more than one third report heavier personal workloads in six months. Early arrivals stay late at 39 percent, while 30 percent of on time arrivals extend hours. The piece notes large severance packages for top executives and two year salary plus benefits for dismissed Fortune 500 CEOs.
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Mobile phone users vary in knowing features, survey finds
A Moritz Poll of 803 adults shows 47 percent of wireless subscribers cannot use all phone functions. Knowledge rises with age. 85 percent of 18 to 24 year olds know the features versus 71 percent of 25 to 34 year olds. Gazette wire services.
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Making connections By George C. Ford in Gacette ARION
More than 40 percent of the population is unmarried prompting singles services like Compatible Connections of Marion to aid networking. Elaine Michaels says the firm, at 1605 31st St in Marion, uses a confidential four page questionnaire and a 3 to 5 minute video to help members meet and evaluate potential matches.
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Gacette Arion
Compatible Connections
Marion
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Restaurateur rose through the ranks to four Happy Chef stores
Chuck Melby, 40, and his wife Sheri purchased four Happy Chef restaurants in Cedar Rapids Cedar Falls and Waterloo on June 25 from Don and Doreen Ulrich. Melby started as a bus boy then cooked and climbed to general manager before becoming a minority partner in 1991.
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Chuck Melby
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Don
Doreen Ulrich
Mason City
Happy Chef
33Rd Avenue
Pat McElliott
Blairs Ferry Rd
33Rd Ave
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Bill Ulrich
33Rd Avenue SW
Iowa City
Blairs Ferry Road
West Mullan Avenue
Chuck
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