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Oreck Corporation's headquarters and Mississippi plant were devastated by the 2005 hurricane Katrina. But family spirit was the catalyst that let them resume full operations in a phenomenal ten days.

There is a good reminder in the Oreck profile that Thanksgiving is not just one day a year, but rather an "any time / all the time" spirit. Oreck management brought all their employees together shortly after the hurricane hit to give their employees a sense that a first step was being taken in getting their lives together after Katrina

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Financial Management has a new article.

Mortgage escrow is a viable concept that has been abused by lender's greed.

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Part of your ebusiness activity should include a web site marketing strategy. Although the strategy must be relevant to your business, it is also a good idea to know what your competitors are doing.

You can easily find out a lot about your competition - who they host with, who is involved with maintaining their site, etc. And use a lot of other useful domain tools, such a reverse lookup to identify web sites.

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