The purpose of the Chamber's Retail Merchants Committee is to organize promotional programs and events designed to increase retail business throughout Kirksville and to keep retail shopping dollars within the community.

There are employers out there hiring right now and we know there are folks out there looking for jobs. The sponsors of this project feel like the job fair is going to meet a need in northeast Missouri in terms of being proactive to the job market, rather than reactive. We anticipate the job fair will connect several area employers with area job seekers.

You have a potential of close to 2,000 new customers.

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

I think what attracted hedge funds (to the reinsurance business) was that these are random events that don't correlate to bond markets and stocks, and you get certainty pretty quickly. You either have the loss or you don't.

Our business, like many others, has been impacted by the recent unprecedented events, which served to compound the softening of our business following July's anniversary sale.