News item: City wants high-rise crane removed
No work has been done on the planned 90-story building since last year, and now it stands as a shell about 27 stories tall at the southwest corner of Wacker and Clark.
Showing posts with label we're Thailand ca. 1998. Show all posts
Showing posts with label we're Thailand ca. 1998. Show all posts
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Monday, September 22, 2008
this is probably nothing to worry about
Patients Cut Back on Prescriptions, Doctor Visits Amid Tough Times
The health sector tends to be pretty resilient during economic downturns, because even in tight times, people generally make medical care a priority.
But this year things aren’t quite hewing to past form. A number of indicators show that patients, pressed by a combination of economic woes and shrinking health benefits, have been cutting back on care...
“Since I don’t work out of the home, it’s not that crucial” to have the cataract fixed, she reasons. “And I can drive with one eye.”
That's the American spirit! Our Noble Plutocrats are having to retire to eight-figure severance packages in total disgrace. In the big scheme of things, your ability to see isn't that important.
The health sector tends to be pretty resilient during economic downturns, because even in tight times, people generally make medical care a priority.
But this year things aren’t quite hewing to past form. A number of indicators show that patients, pressed by a combination of economic woes and shrinking health benefits, have been cutting back on care...
“Since I don’t work out of the home, it’s not that crucial” to have the cataract fixed, she reasons. “And I can drive with one eye.”
That's the American spirit! Our Noble Plutocrats are having to retire to eight-figure severance packages in total disgrace. In the big scheme of things, your ability to see isn't that important.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
advantages of being an empire in decline (though we do have to put up with the hurling hooligans running loose on Michigan Avenue)
Come for the cheap crap. Stay for the being treated like a criminal at the border.
Shopping is good with euros to spend
Crain's, Aug. 18, 2008
Back home in Italy, Stefano Fante, 51, is a prudent consumer, buying just what he needs and never shopping while on vacation. But a $600 chocolate-brown leather jacket beckoned from the racks at the Cole-Haan store on Michigan Avenue.
Mr. Fante, an attorney from Padua, slipped it on, took a few turns in front of the mirror and then conferred with his wife Marilisa, 45, also an attorney, and their 13-year-old son, Tommaso. After some lively deliberation, he put the jacket back on the rack and decided to keep looking.
Money definitely was not the issue. Mr. Fante, like many European tourists in Chicago, can afford to give in to temptation these days. Indeed, he bought an even pricier jacket a few doors down, splurging on a $950 version — about two-thirds what it would've cost him at home — at Johnston & Murphy.
With 1 euro hovering between $1.50 and $1.60 this summer, Michigan Avenue seems like one big clearance bin to Europeans, who are snapping up iPods, laptops, cameras and American clothing brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, plus Chicago Bulls merchandise.
. . .
"We came here because of the strong euro," Mr. Fante said. "It's great for us. The first time I came to the U.S. was more than 20 years ago, in 1983, and I couldn't buy anything. Everything was impossible, too expensive. We find the USA for us is now cheap, so we buy."
Digging through shelves of discounted T-shirts were Shane Mullally, 22, and Damian Kelly, 20, two Irishmen here for the summer at the invitation of a local hurling club. Hurling is a native sport of Ireland, a cross between baseball and lacrosse (yeah - suuure it is - ed.).
"These $20 shirts would easily cost double in Ireland," Mr. Mullally pointed out, walking to the dressing room with armfuls of clothes...
Shopping is good with euros to spend
Crain's, Aug. 18, 2008
Back home in Italy, Stefano Fante, 51, is a prudent consumer, buying just what he needs and never shopping while on vacation. But a $600 chocolate-brown leather jacket beckoned from the racks at the Cole-Haan store on Michigan Avenue.
Mr. Fante, an attorney from Padua, slipped it on, took a few turns in front of the mirror and then conferred with his wife Marilisa, 45, also an attorney, and their 13-year-old son, Tommaso. After some lively deliberation, he put the jacket back on the rack and decided to keep looking.
Money definitely was not the issue. Mr. Fante, like many European tourists in Chicago, can afford to give in to temptation these days. Indeed, he bought an even pricier jacket a few doors down, splurging on a $950 version — about two-thirds what it would've cost him at home — at Johnston & Murphy.
With 1 euro hovering between $1.50 and $1.60 this summer, Michigan Avenue seems like one big clearance bin to Europeans, who are snapping up iPods, laptops, cameras and American clothing brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, plus Chicago Bulls merchandise.
. . .
"We came here because of the strong euro," Mr. Fante said. "It's great for us. The first time I came to the U.S. was more than 20 years ago, in 1983, and I couldn't buy anything. Everything was impossible, too expensive. We find the USA for us is now cheap, so we buy."
Digging through shelves of discounted T-shirts were Shane Mullally, 22, and Damian Kelly, 20, two Irishmen here for the summer at the invitation of a local hurling club. Hurling is a native sport of Ireland, a cross between baseball and lacrosse (yeah - suuure it is - ed.).
"These $20 shirts would easily cost double in Ireland," Mr. Mullally pointed out, walking to the dressing room with armfuls of clothes...
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