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Is now the right time to get into the stock market? The answer to that query is often necessarily multifaceted. In determining your investment strategy, whether this is the right time to invest isn’t the most important thing to ask. The more significant questions are: 1. What is my risk tolerance, or, how much money am I willing to lose for a chance to obtain a higher rate … [Read more...] about Stock Market Timing: Get invested, stay invested, and do it now

Is now the right time to get into the stock market? The answer to that query is often necessarily multifaceted. In determining your investment strategy, whether this is the right time to invest isn’t the most important thing to ask. The more significant questions are: 1. What is my risk tolerance, or, how much money am I willing to lose for a chance to obtain a higher rate … [Read more...] about Stock Market Timing: Get invested, stay invested, and do it now

Gambling in Las Vegas is a common affair, one that happens every second of every day. The idea of gambling on Las Vegas is one that some companies view with the same confidence a seasoned gambler would: that in Las Vegas it’s almost always a sure thing. The thing that makes P&D Consultants, a professional planning and engineering consultant firm, different from most … [Read more...] about P&D Consultants: Better communities through better planning and design

Instead of concentrating on issues, policies and voting records, today’s voters seem increasingly interested in another part of a candidate’s background— the biography. Was the candidate a war hero? Did he fight social injustice? Did he run a successful company? Was she a housewife who raised four kids, put herself through law school and now helps inner-city youths with her … [Read more...] about Voters Increasingly Reward Political Novices

Gold started Eureka County and to this day plays an integral part in its economy. With the fall in gold prices of the last few years and with two of the largest gold mines in the country, Barrick Gold Strike Mine and Newmont Gold Company, located there, Eureka County has felt the pinch. Barrick and Newmont, situated in the northern end of the county, employ several thousand … [Read more...] about Eureka County Development Council: Slow growth watchwords of the future for this mining- and agriculture-intensive economy

Pick up a good novel ... quick The future of book selling may look like present-day video rental stores, with only a few sample books on the shelves. Take the book up to the counter — like the empty box at some video stores — and the book will be printed, bound and handed over, all in a few seconds. Digital printing has the potential to benefit every aspect of the … [Read more...] about Faster Every Day: The wide-ranging benefits of future high-speed telecommunications promise to be as influential as Gutenburg himself.

Companies come to us because they’ve heard this ‘i’ word out there. They hear things like Michael Dell at Dell Computers say­ing, ‘Companies that are not Internet companies by the year 2002 will not be companies.’ They hear about Amazon.com, whose stock has gone through the roof, and all these other things, and they realize they’re missing out on something,” says Jeff Obst, CEO … [Read more...] about edurus: Firm meets multitudes of e-business needs under one roof

Planned growth, controlled growth, smart growth, managed growth, growth restraints, growth control, growth caps, growth boundaries, no-growth — it all comes down to the same thing: What on earth do we do with the thousands of peo­ple moving into Nevada every month? Do we close off our borders and install armed guards to keep out Californians? Or do we open the state wide and … [Read more...] about Growth in Nevada: Rose Garden, or Week Patch

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard. “Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and the seek Your direction and guidance.”  We know your word says, “Woe on those who call evil good,” but that is exactly what we have done.  We have … [Read more...] about The New Millennium: Let Us Begin Anew

When Marsha Lindsey took the reins of Nevada Bell in November, it was only the latest step up the ladder for this soft-spo­ken woman. Twenty-four years ago, she started with SBC Communications, Inc., Nevada Bell’s parent company, as an information assistant writing articles for an internal employee news­letter, making use of a degree in journalism she earned from the University … [Read more...] about Marsha Lindsey: Listening, communicating key throughout Nevada Bell executive’s career

Venture Capital The absence of venture capital in Nevada is not a new topic among the state’s businesspeople, having emerged with some regularity in previous election years throughout this decade. The November 2000 election will see a rein­troduction of the topic. Members of the business community increasingly under­stand how critical venture capital is in at­tracting … [Read more...] about Year 2000 Trends

Gone are the days when a mere In­ternet presence equaled e-com­merce. The intelligence of trying to save money by having a friend of a friend design your Web site on the weekend is akin to joining the Flat Earth Society. Relying on hit counters to analyze the utility of a site is history. And if you think your com­pany doesn’t have to worry about high-tech sales, think again. … [Read more...] about E-Commerce or Brochures in the Sky: Is Your Internet Site Worth its Wavelengths?

Okay, so you’re savvy enough to know that you can’t build your wealth simply by socking all your money into a savings account and watch­ing the entries on your statement grow. But you’re still wary about dealing with the ups and downs of stock market swings. You may be able to minimize risks—and control your stock market jitters — by adhering to a consistent, comprehen­sive … [Read more...] about Ten Tips for First-Time Investors

Sooner or later, most Nevada busi­nesses will sign a real estate lease. While the base rent is usually clear, all commercial leases (whether office, re­tail, or industrial) contain other provisions that can lead to uncertain “unallocated costs” that must be borne by either the landlord or tenant. To avoid future dis­putes and to effectively allocate these costs to the … [Read more...] about Commercial Leases Who really pays? Tenants and landlords both need to consider “unallocated costs” in real estate leases

The Business Burnett Haase Con­struction, a general contractor with 23 employees based in the Marycrest Corpo­rate Center in Henderson. The Players Partners Ross Burnett, who came to Las Vegas after obtaining a master’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1990 to coordinate develop­ment the Clark County School District, and Chris Haase, a Miami (Ohio) Univer­sity … [Read more...] about All The Right Moves: While expansion and success is every company’s goal, accommodating whirlwind growth takes creativity and planning