The New Year is normally a time to launch long-term financial goals, but millions of Americans are taking it one day at a time. More than one-third, 38%, of people say they’ll be in “survival mode” in 2021, according to Fidelity Investments’ annual New Year Financial Resolutions Study released Tuesday. …
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A few businesses live and breathe by the weather forecast. Aeronautics clients plan courses around getting a fuel (and cost) sparing plane stream, while simultaneously offsetting that with shirking of choppiness. Utilities use exactness temperature, wind and overcast cover forecasts to know how much force they will need to serve …
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“ Every business is at risk of losing those who drive innovation. ” When employees shifted to working remotely five months ago, few thought it would last this long. Now, an estimated 30 million Americans are unemployed, with one in five workers collecting unemployment benefits. The U.S. recession is deepening, …
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One of the renovation challenges we’re trying to figure out at the moment is how we should handle the fireplaces at the St. Martin house. There are currently two existing fireplaces with mantels — one is on the ground floor in the living room (pictured above), and one is on …
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