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October is Breast Cancer
Awareness Month!
WHR fully supports the
"PINK" initiative to eradicate breast cancer. As
many of you know, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer in her lifetime...and this includes my mother who is a 40 year
survivor. If I had to guess, I would speculate that most people
can point to someone they know that has been impacted by this
disease. To this end, WHR annually participates in Lee National
Denim Day (October 8, 2010) in support of the cause held by the Women's Cancer Programs
of the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
In exchange for a donation of $5 or more, WHR employees
will be allowed to wear jeans on Denim Day to show their support for
the fight against breast cancer. I'm extremely proud of
our employees as their donations have greatly exceeded this amount
and WHR has agreed to match this amount in support of this
cause.
Since 1996, Lee Denim Day has
raised nearly $80 million for the fight against breast cancer.
Money raised will be used for the search to discover less harmful
treatments for breast cancer patients and to create effective blood
testing for early detection. It is WHR's pledge to continue to
participate in this yearly event until a cure is discovered!
Because of the amazing help that
my mother received from doctors during her time of treatment, I have
decided to make an additional personal commitment in combating
cancer. I am pleased to announce that WHR Group is the first
company to sign on as a partial sponsor for a cancer researcher at
Mayo Clinic. We will be making a monetary gift to Mayo Clinic
each year, and I will be personally involved in helping choose a
researcher that will benefit from this gift.
Remember to THINK PINK.
Click to make a personal
donation
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The Recession Has
(Officially) Ended
By Catherine Rampell
September 20, 2010
www.nytimes.com
The recession officially ended in June 2009, according
to the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of
Economic Research, the official arbiter of such dates.
As many economists had expected, this official end date makes the
most recent downturn the longest since World War II. This recent
recession, having begun in December 2007, lasted 18 months. Until now
the longest postwar recessions were those of 1973-5 and 1981-2, which
each lasted 16 months.
The newly-declared end-date to the recession also confirms what many
had suspected: The 2007-9 recession was the deepest on record since
the Great Depression, at least in terms of job losses.
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4 Lessons From a 97
Year-Old Real-Estate Agent
By John Roach
www.msn.com
Buy a house today if you can, but don't sell one if you
don't have to, says George W. Johnson, a 97-year-old real-estate
agent who has been working the Seattle market since 1936.
Johnson, who is reluctant to call himself America's oldest
real-estate agent - he says he just learned of a 99-year-old broker
in Florida - has seen his share of housing booms and busts since he
hung his first real-estate shingle 74 years ago.
"I've been through a lot of these ups and
downs," he says, remembering the property boom that followed
World War II, as well as the deep downturn in the 1970s when
Seattle's biggest employer, Boeing, laid off thousands of workers.
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Gov't Launches Plan to Help
"Underwater" Borrowers
Alan Zibel (AP)
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is trying to
jump-start its sputtering attempts to tackle the foreclosure crisis
with an effort to assist homeowners who owe more on their properties
than their homes are worth.
Starting Tuesday, the Federal Housing Administration will permit
lenders to give these borrowers refinanced loans backed by the
government. The lenders will be required to forgive at least 10
percent of the original mortgage amount. Investors who have control
over the mortgages as part of their large portfolios will select
which borrowers are invited to participate.
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By Diane Swonk, Cheif Economist, Meisirow Financial
View the lastest issue of Themes on the
Economy®, a monthly economic newsletter written by Chief
Economist Diane Swonk, focusing on the latest trends and data
exhibited in the U.S. economy.
In her September edition, Swonk highlights themes discussed
at the Annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. Keynote
addresses were delivered by Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, and European
Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet. The rest of the
conference was spent discussing everything from what caused the
crisis to where the economy is today and where we should go from
here.
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Example:
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