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Survivors: Businesses that change with the times

Survivors: Businesses that change with the times(0)

September 29, 2008

Not long ago, the dime store sold pet rocks. Secretaries typed letters and memos, deliberately key-stroking on a manual typewriter; office bookkeepers filled in ledgers with sharpened pencils. Homes fueled furnaces with oil; gasoline cost less than a dollar. Some doctors made house calls, and prescriptions were filled at the drug store.
Times have changed – [...]

Survivors: Businesses that change with the times
Business Watch offering a closer look

Business Watch offering a closer look

Tinkering, a time-honored American tradition, describes best what Business Watch editors and writers have done to the current issue.
Readers will discover a number of new sections that have particular relevance to North Dakota business.
For instance, inside Business Watch special attention has been given to the state’s energy industry – facts and figures, briefs on issues [...]

Farm Stats

Farm Stats

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture will meet in Bismarck Sept. 19-24. Speaking at the annual meeting will be U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer.
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Small grain harvest in western North Dakota refl ects a mixed bag, depending upon rainfall that wasn’t consistent and a crop that got a late start.
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Lifeline Farms [...]

Once upon a time…Corporate Storytelling

Once upon a time…Corporate Storytelling

Story by Debora Dragseth
When Pamela Schmidt wants to explain why she left a career in television to start one of the first longterm care insurance agencies in the country, she tells the story of her grandfather’s pride; when Randy Hatzenbuhler wants to inspire 300 seasonal employees at North Dakota’s largest tourist attraction to rise to a higher level of customer service, [...]


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