On the main business street, Collinsville Avenue, once-proud buildings are boarded up or part-occupied.
My Forbes card simply has the Forbes logo, my senior editor title, my business street address, phone and fax number and my e-mail address.
Its logo, an eye surrounded by dancing rays, is visible on T-shirts, bags, backpacks and scores of products targeted for young people up and down Jalan Malioboro, Jogjakarta's main business street.
Every small business on main street had a TV and employees, business owners and customers were gathered around the televisions watching their favorite little league teams.
Stores on Edinburgh's Princes Street said they noticed business picking up after the street re-opened to buses in the summer after 18 months of tram works.
Francos Wine Merchants, a family-owned business on Elm Street, the main drag in New Canaan, Conn.
Locals are fueling a boom in business on Magazine Street, a six-mile stretch of boutiques and restaurants.
Marrus says he got the idea for StreetID while running his own headhunting business, The Street Advisor Group.
That heads the list of many things that are dropped, and main street business suffer from lack of demand.
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Main street business owners restaurant owners, landscapers, gas stations, and dry cleaners were all affected by the decrease.
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As these firms are new, they do not have the relationships that underpin so much business on the Street.
In fact, many realty brokers and luxury car companies have come to expect booms in business when Wall Street gets paid.
The Bancrofts had been deeply divided over whether to sell the Dow Jones, which includes the flagship business newspaper Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Soft dollar and commission recapture firms have grown tremendously since the late eighties and have taken a lot of business from Wall Street firms.
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But market volatility has repercussions that even the smallest Main Street business will feel: decreased consumer spending and potentially decreased demand for their goods.
And my contrarian point of view there was that Exxon management knew more about the oil and gas business than Wall Street analysts did.
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And with Goldman eager to get rid of its hedge fund administration business, State Street is clearly more than happy to lap it up.
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And my favorite, big business and Wall Street destroyed the jobs.
Despite all his talk of bipartisanship, Kerry lobbed several attacks on the Bush administration, claiming that the administration has done more to help big business than Main Street businesses.
Underlying all of this is a deep tea party suspicion that big government is in cahoots with big business and Wall Street, against the rest of America.
Grand Street has lost furniture and clothing stores, among others, in the past six years, according to Artineh Havan, executive director of the Grand Street Business Improvement District.
The NYSE annual survey for 2012 indicates that 47 percent of Main Street business owners responded that the capital needs of their businesses were being met marginally or not at all.
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For the 1%, especially the minority of them who make their business on Wall Street and have suffered at the hands of oppression, the Cooperman letter is the spark that has ignited the fires of freedom.
Across the board, the firms have taken billions in write-downs for exotic credit derivatives that just a few months ago were the hottest business on the Street and not seen as a huge risk management issue.
You could not have her carry a box of 80 column cards a couple of blocks at 10:00 PM to 80 Pine where the card reader attached to an ATT dedicated line transmitted the days business to State Street.
We need state and local politicians to think outside of their party affiliation and facilitate a Main Street business environment that encourages the local barbershop, restaurants, manufacturing plants, and other businesses to create and invent the products and services that will change lives and communities for the better.
Obama's selection of a reliable insider and budget expert for the critical Treasury job and not a prominent outsider with broad business or Wall Street experience is yet another sign that he intends to actively pursue his economic-policy objectives in his second term, including raising more tax revenues from the wealthy than agreed to in the fiscal-cliff deal.
The plan would consolidate three libraries moving the popular Mid-Manhattan circulating library (just across Fifth Avenue at 40th Street) and the underused Science, Industry and Business branch (in a 34th Street building that runs from Fifth to Madison Avenues) back into the main building to eliminate substantial operating costs.
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