lump sum payment

New York (PRESS RELEASE – November 17, 2010) – Capital Access Network, Inc. (CAN), announced that it will make loans available to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) through its subsidiary, NewLogic Business Loans, Inc.

NewLogic will provide loans to restaurants, service practices and retail businesses, offering much needed access to working capital to “Main Street” businesses.

Union workers at Boeing Co.'s Rotorcraft plant near Philadelphia have ratified a new five-year contract with the aircraft maker that will give them raises of 2 percent to 4 percent a year and a lump-sum payment of $3,500 in the first year, the company and the union said Sunday.

This isn't the first time I've written about the demise of the employee photographer (aka "staff photographer"), nor, sadly, will it be the last.