Like mushrooms around a stump, blocks devoted to automotive commerce spring up on the margins in all five boroughs: under highway overpasses, in failing warehouse districts; places where land comes cheap, and residents, if there are any, don't have enough clout to make a fuss about the piles of rusting steel littering the landscape, the dust and the noise.
On one hand her administration has an office devoted to increasing commerce and tourism with Mexico, on the other she pushes legislation which would fund $1.4 million of tax payer money to create a militia to tour the southwest border, ultimately hurting commerce and tourism from our southern neighbor.
[C7.] Ad Campaign for Industry Standard At a time when swings in technology stocks are feeding a debate about the Internet economy, The Industry Standard, a magazine devoted to e-commerce, is starting a $10 million campaign to attract a broader range of readers.
AT a time when swings in technology stocks are feeding a debate about the Internet economy, The Industry Standard, a magazine devoted to e-commerce, is starting a campaign to attract a broader range of readers.
The Staff of that weekly is made up exclusively of wealthy residents of the city, curiously devoted to its prodigious commerce and shipping, its eccentric millionaires and their wives, and its several legends — the metropolis, of course, has no traditions.
But that campaign hit a snag because the law said it applied only to stores and clubs where "a substantial portion" of the space was devoted to X-rated commerce.
"How apt to the DNA of Lucky is it to have one of our programs be devoted to the future of commerce?" One reason the promotion is using the PayPal Mobile Text2Buy service is that in a survey of Lucky readers, 83percentt said they were familiar with PayPal, she added.
But that statement wrongly likens spending devoted to political objectives to ordinary commerce.
I sometimes felt I was watching a junior chamber of commerce revue, devoted to those silly '50s.
