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...Neither the company’s board nor management have contributed a dime to this lobbying effort so far. The state, however, would be required to raise up to $5bn a year in new taxes....
...On a warm Arkansan evening, a jazz quartet has drawn a crowd outside Walton’s five and dime in the main square....
...“Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That’s why I f**k around on company time baby,” wrote Brotendo88. But its most celebrated posts are screenshots of resignation letters and text messages....
...A spokesperson for Dime Community Bank, listed as Advent’s lender, said Advent had withdrawn the application and did not receive any money....
...“He is completely dedicated to the community where he was where he grew up. He has done so many things, volunteering and investing in that community, no one would ever know that,” she said....
...But Mr Polman, a relentless campaigner for corporate responsibility, is not alone in his quest to combine profitability with the health of the community and the environment....
...On Thursday, New York Community Bancorp agreed to buy New York-based Astoria Financial for about $2bn....
...“This is where the matchmaking is,” says David Zalman, chief executive of Prosperity Bancshares, an acquisitive Texas-based bank that has more than doubled its assets to $21.2bn since the end of 2011....
...But in an age of Skype and cut-price calling cards, can China Telecom succeed in make a dime off its notoriously thrifty countrymen? Perhaps....
...“add people to customer support without paying a dime.”...
...The Obama administration last week unveiled a plan to invest $30bn from the Troubled Asset Relief Programme in community banks to spur small business loans....
...“After many years of malaise the city’s leadership has gotten serious about the downtown, where arts and entertainment are beginning to flourish and a sense of community has been reintroduced,” he says....
...$180,000,000 Wesbanco Bank Inc. $75,000,000 Encore Bancshares Inc....
...When he was young, Larry used to go into Bentonville to shop at Sam Walton’s five-and-dime store....
...Shares in National City were 41 per cent higher in midday trade, while Huntington Bancshares gained 38.8 per cent....
...A separate Pew study last week found that only 43 per cent of Americans thought that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community a lot....
...“The design was a Lucite piggy bank with dimes and quarters running through it. But to look at it, all you saw was this enormous pig,” Mr Cummings recalls....
...“Many fund managers who only buy Australian stocks are a dime a dozen. If they don’t get the returns, some other local player will....
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