11/30/2011 With about 37 percent of its goal reached, the Salina Area United Way is dishing up a new fundraising event Thursday. So far, about $420,000 has been committed during this year’s campaign toward the $1.15 million goal, said United Way Executive Director Andy Martin. That’s about 6 percent ahead of where the campaign was a year ago at this time, when $1.1 million was raised, he said. Martin said about a third of individual donors and two-thirds of business [...]
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There is a memorable scene in the film ‘Wall Street’ where antihero Gordon Gekko meets his comeuppance. he had bought up stock in Bluestar Airlines with a plan to take it over, but the stock tanks and he has to sell his holding at a huge loss. with the look of a man who has just been beaten up, Gekko instructs his broker to “dump it, dump it all” before slamming down the phone. Any investor who has been involved [...]
