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...populist wing of the Democratic Party made two vigorous attacks on the guest-worker provision in the Senate bill, succeeding in cutting in half the annual allotment of workers. The anxieties of these Democrats are driven in part by the fact that the main area of expansion in the proposed bill would be for guest workers outside agriculture--in the service sector, in construction, in factories. By law, any guest-worker position has to be offered to Americans first, but the fear is that a flood of guest workers would drive down salaries in those industries, as they already have...
...online ticketing sites. So a new crop of companies has emerged to help them. "When you outsource your ticketing, you lose the touch point with your customers," says Tom Gillis of Capital Tickets, which runs ticketing for the Ottawa Senators hockey team and several large venues in the Ottawa area. Instead of steering buyers to Ticketmaster, the Senators keep fans on its own website (and the revenue from online ads) using software by Paciolan. Jim Royce of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles switched from Ticketmaster to Dallas-based Tessitura's software because it allows him to identify first...
...area where the Crimson was perhaps most need in of some incoming help was not the hands department, but the feet...
Perhaps sensing the humbling nature of joining the college ranks, Winters is quick to cite an area of weakness...
...built their own Cycle Center in Millennium Park three years ago. And earlier this month, the mayor of Santa Barbara, home to 5,000 daily bike commuters, cut the ribbon on the newest Bikestation, an $80,000 self-parking garage inside an auto parking garage, offering showers, a changing area and a bathroom for fee-paying members. Bike parking centers in Pasadena, Santa Monica and San Diego also are in the works...