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Small and medium businesses getting short shrift… again

by Steve Lange on July 21, 2009

The private funding of CIT Group this week highlights once more how small- and medium-sized businesses, the backbone of the day-to-day American economy, are getting short shrift from the federal bailout and economic recovery programs. CIT Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s prominent lenders, supporting more than 1 million small- and medium-size businesses, including [...]

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Those Annoying Definitions

by Tim Berry on May 28, 2009

Words have meanings. Communication has the message, the message sent and the message received. We’re stuck with that. We don’t get to redefine words easily, for convenience. We need to respect the meaning in the other person’s head. What am I talking about, you ask? (I know–it isn’t obvious.) I’m talking about . . . [...]

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