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The Growing Urban Wealth Divide

The Horizons Tracker

The study highlights that some of the factors typically believed to affect neighborhood values, such as transport links and proximity to the center of town, aren’t as influential as previously thought. Transport links. What did appear to influence values is the proximity of major transport links.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Equipment leasing can help you gear up for construction projects on Anchorage’s two active military bases.

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Structural Economic Shift and Unemployment

Coaching Tip

Beginning on January 1, 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will group people by the actual number of weeks of unemployment, up to five years. Source: The New Yorker, January 3, 2011. Jobs have been lost and hiring is slow almost across the board.

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People Skills and Personal Strengths - The Bottom Line

Building Personal Strength

Transportation. Constructive feedback? Can you use the machines and devices and programs that do these things? Facilities. Communication. Technology. Information. People skills. Are you good with people? Do you know really effective ways to listen to people? Give them positive feedback? To encourage them? Inspire them? Influence them?

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Rather than having stores in shopping centers, retailers will construct massive warehouses and home-deliver products directly. A Texas A&M study forecasts that by 2020 Americans will spend 45 hours per year tied up in traffic (compared to 38 hours in 2011). Those massive warehouses are much easier to automate.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. ” Long term, however, oil demand to operate cars is likely to decline as fuel efficiency for all manner of transportation increases, car ownership continues to fall, and electric and autonomous vehicles become more popular. The soaring U.S.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. Global business Productivity Transportation PDF'