Tamer Abrahim, a restaurant owner in Palmyra has seen business fall away dramatically.
IT SEEMS an unlikely bastion of patriotism, but as most bits of British business fall to foreigners, banking remains stubbornly British.
Networking companies, which have been financial bedrocks during the Internet boom, have had their business fall out from underneath them during the troubled economic times in recent months.
Aquator, a small company that manufactures high-end Jacuzzis and bathtubs, watched its business fall off a cliff late last year, as the Estonian building boom came to an abrupt end.
"We have had no business fall through," said Dana Marcus, a partner of McCormick, Murtagh, Marcus & Smith, a law firm in Great Barrington, Mass., that handles numerous leisure home transactions in the Berkshires.
Darryl McCray, the owner of House of Nubian, a specialty store on 8th Street in Greenwich Village, saw his daily business fall off by 90percentt, from $4,000 a day before Sept. 11 to about $400 a day currently.
