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• NAHB Remodelers Celebrates 25th Anniversary
  The NAHB Remodelers council is celebrating its 25th year of existence. See how this trade group has been advancing the industry with its support.
• Study Examines Elements of Entrepreneurial Success
  In a new study upending decades of conventional wisdom, Florida International University researchers found that neither age, education, gender, nationality nor household income were major factors in determining whether a start-up venture would take flight or flounder.
• Growth by Design
  This profile of HDR Inc., a 90-year-old Omaha-based engineering and architecture firm, examines the strategies for how the firm will meet the challenge of keeping up a growth pace that has brought its employee shareholders an average annual gain above 15 percent.
• Gen X Flexes Its Housing Muscle
  The rap on Generation X 10 years ago was that it was an age group of directionless slackers obsessed with grunge rock and existential indifference. Turns out those so-called "slackers" have plenty of direction indeed particularly toward owning their own homes and bigger, more expensive, more amenity-filled homes at that.
• Housing Slump Slashes Jobs Nationwide
  Home sellers aren't the only ones pained by the sharp housing market slowdown: So are people who build houses. U.S. homebuilders and residential specialty trade employers cut 21,200 jobs in May, June and July, usually the peak building months, according to the most recent preliminary numbers from the Labor Department.

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