| 2007 Fleetwood RV Year in Review Fact Sheet
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This year Fleetwood's RV Group incorporated dealer and customer feedback into its product planning and development processes, resulting in some of its best-looking and most innovative motor home, travel trailer and folding trailer products to date. In 2007, each of the divisions made strides. The Folding Trailer Division remained committed to improving its profitability and maintaining its leadership position in the marketplace. The Travel Trailer Division spent the first half of the year reworking its entire product line and streamlining its operations in an effort to regain profitability, and is now beginning to enjoy the benefits of the new structure. The Motor Home Division continues to build on the momentum gained from its 2007 model year introductions of new floor plans and new brands in key high volume segments.
Vive la Downtown! Business grants available to instill a touch of ...
Whether it's flowers spilling into the street from a florist shop or sipping coffee at an outdoor cafe, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership wants to bring a bit of Paris to the city of steel. Through a $1 million grant from the Colcom Foundation, the partnership is offering matching funds to Downtown restaurants, retailers and businesses as incentive to perk up their facades and sidewalks. The Paris to Pittsburgh program is one of two initiatives being launched by the partnership this year in a bid to add vibrancy to the heart of the Golden Triangle. It also is offering property owners loans to convert vacant or under-used upper floors into apartments in the hope of providing more affordable options for people who want to live Downtown. One of the goals of the Paris to Pittsburgh program is to make store and restaurant fronts more transparent, with large window or garage door-like openings that will allow patrons to move freely between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
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They have still not come to terms that they were on the losing side of a war of aggression that Milosevic's Serbia committed against Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They have still not come to terms with the fact that Croatia is an independent country proud of its recent victory on the battle-field against criminal aggression. Croatia's enemies have since conducted a defamation campaign against all Croats, not just Thompson. It is their hope to stifle Croatia's chance at entry into the European Union. Thompson is very popular among Croatians that are old enough to remember the war years in the early 1990s. And the band quickly became a natural target for Croatia's enemies. The defamation campaign is spear-headed by negative propaganda identical to the kind spread world-wide during communist Yugoslavia.
61% believe country is in grips of recession, poll finds
Wall Street is unsettled and as a result, people's nest eggs are not what they once were. In fact, that was the top economic worry in the AP-Ipsos poll. Fifty-nine percent said they were worried "a lot" or "some" about seeing the value of stocks and retirement investments drop. "I really dread opening my (financial) statements," Sims said. By one rough rule of thumb, a recession occurs when there are two consecutive quarters six straight months when the economy shrinks. That did not happen in the last recession, though. The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2001, turned positive in the second quarter, shrank in the third quarter and turned up again in the final quarter of that year. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the recognized arbiters for dating recessions, uses a more complicated formula.
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