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Shelbyville's Career Center will be seeing more job seekers due to the closing of the state's Fayetteville office. The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development announced Friday it is closing the Fayetteville Career Center effective Jan. 25... .
Fall from ladder kills Scottsdale jockey
Then, when he decides to wash windows for the first time in years, he dies doing it." The 5-foot-5, 125-pound Garrido was well known at Turf Paradise raceway in Phoenix and had won approximately 950 races before his injuries let him to retire in 1998 at 33, Lillie Garrido said. He had recently taken over as manager of the North Scottsdale Polo Club, another one of his passions. Garrido managed the Polo Aztecas. When the Aztecas return to action next month at the polo fields at WestWorld in Scottsdale, it will mark the first time in nearly a decade the sport will be lacking Garrido's presence. Weekend polo matches are a staple there. For the last several years, Garrido was a scheduler for AA Window Cleaning in New River, the company he formerly owned with Jorge Estrada, a teammate on the Aztecas.
Pandit, Bischoff Enter Spotlight To Repair Citi
Vikram Pandit and Sir Win Bischoff, a little-known duo who spent most of their careers working under the radar, now must work under the glare of Wall Street scrutiny to fix Citigroup Inc., the nation's largest bank by assets. In naming Mr. Pandit and Sir Win as chief executive officer and chairman, respectively, the bank's board yesterday tapped two insiders with relatively short Citigroup tenures who came aboard as the result of previous acquisitions. At the beginning of 2007, few people on Wall Street would have cited either as candidates to succeed Charles Prince, a longtime lawyer at the bank ... .
Caution urged at sharemarket 'stocktake sale'
WHILE January 2008 has wreaked havoc on share portfolios, brave buyers dubbed it a stocktake sale. Last week the stock market was down by 18 per cent for the month, the lowest monthly fall since the crash in 1987, which saw the market plunge 42.45 per cent. Wilson HTM Investment Group senior adviser Carl Daffy said consecutive falls over 12 days of trading triggered a flurry of buyers. "It's like a Myer stocktake sale for investors," Mr Daffy said. "If Myer had 10 per cent off tomorrow, shoppers would flock to it. Investors are doing the same thing." There were more than 2.5 million trades in last week's frenzy, up from the December weekly average of 1.4 million trades, the ASX said. Some blue-chip shares, including Wesfarmers and the Commonwealth Bank, fell to their lowest prices in a year.
Blog Bite: Why Strahan's a dental case
My wife saw Michael Strahan on television not long ago and wondered why a guy with all that money wouldn't have his front teeth fixed to remove the huge gap. I told her Strahan believes it's his trademark, that he'd no longer be as distinctive without it.
I also told her I once wrote that the gap was so big, you could drive a Chevrolet through it.
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