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		<title>Small business owners drop prices and in turn build relationships during recession</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — For many small business owners, the recession can have an upside in giving them opportunities to strengthen their relationships with customers.

Many of these opportunities grow out of adversity, for example when customers can no longer afford to pay the prices, rates or retainers they agreed to in better times.
Amy Power, who owns ... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/small-business-owners-drop-prices-and-in-turn-build-relationships-during-recession-98164/">Read this article on Gaea Times at  : Small business owners drop prices and in turn build relationships during recession</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Weatherization program gets boost, extra scrutiny from federal stimulus investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTCALM TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Ron Hall has spent 22 years in the home building and remodeling business, none of them as bad as 2008.

The deterioration of the economy and sagging consumer confidence left the central Michigan housing market and the Alma man&#8217;s business at a virtual standstill. In dire need of steady work, the 55-year-old .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/weatherization-program-gets-boost-extra-scrutiny-from-federal-stimulus-investment-71110/">Read the original article &nbsp;: Weatherization program gets boost, extra scrutiny from federal stimulus investment</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Credit rating firms now target small enterprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Venkatachari Jagannathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI - As the economic downturn bites and banks become more reluctant to lend to firms that do not have credit ratings, credit rating agencies are aggressively expanding to provide ratings for at least some of India&#8217;s 12.8 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs).



It is estimated that only about two percent of SMEs in India .... <a href="http://blog.taragana.com/n/credit-rating-firms-now-target-small-enterprises-15195/">Original article &nbsp;: Credit rating firms now target small enterprises</a>.]]></description>
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