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Ever wonder how closed captions that appear onscreen when you change the settings on your TV set get there?

Broadcast captioners, also called stenocaptioners, use court reporter skills on a stenotype machine to provide captions …

Group helps level the playing field for buyers and sellers of mid-sized businesses

A Des Moines-based association is shrinking the world for buyers and sellers of businesses valued at between $2 million and $200 million.…

Dear Mr. Berko:

  I bought 300 shares of WorldCom last year at $14 because I believed the research of one of the well-known analysts at a company where my son has been a broker. Shame …

I began 2003 in retrospect by reading a 50-year-old book on the masters of selling, “America’s Twelve Master Salesmen,” written and published by B.C. Forbes & Sons in 1953.

Each of the master salespeople featured …

Kim Sporrer, a senior public relations account executive at Strategic America, gives a lot of time and energy to public service, but she says the payoff is more than worth the effort. Sporrer, a graduate …

Most investors and money managers, especially those whose portfolios are heavy on stocks and light on bonds, would rather forget about 2002.

Who can blame them? U.S. stock markets notched a third straight year of …

Des Moines broker to lead Society of Industrial and Office Realtors in 2005

When Kevin Crowley entered the Des Moines commercial real estate business in 1979, he discovered little opportunity for a formal education in …

Nearly 1,000 of Des Moines’ most powerful and influential citizens will gather Thursday night at the Polk County Convention Complex to both celebrate past success and hear a call to work harder still for the …

SANDWICH GENERATION

Karin Derry, vice president of human resources at Easter Seals Iowa, has witnessed a subtle shift in employees’ requests for time off to care for sick relatives.

“It seems like we always used …

There is increasing evidence that America’s capitalist system, the very one declared dreadfully wounded amid scandals involving Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLC, Tyco International Ltd. and others, is healing from its self-inflicted wounds.

For evidence, …