This experience taught me what it feels like when a small business owner is looking for the right hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for his business.

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Meanwhile, progress was mired in a lot of old arguments traded across entrenched political divides: left versus right, management versus labor, business leaders versus environmental advocates.

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And we also need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -- places where folks can learn the skills that local business are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.

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Mr. Moore, who runs an alternative investment-management company called GCM Capital Management, says that right now he would rather keep his money in his business rather than plunk it down on a large down payment, especially when he doesn't plan to stay in one place for more than five or 10 years.

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