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Dozen new restaurant outlets headed for downtown L.A. (Los Angeles, California)
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Opportunities grow with office workers, visitors
Nearly a dozen restaurant outfits are checking out sites for outlets in downtown L.A. to serve a growing population there of office workers and out-of-town visitors.
Restaurant business downtown declined in the early 1990s, said Mark Tarczynski, a retail property specialist in the downtown office of CB Commercial Real Estate Group Inc. The recession hit, tourism slumped, companies in the downtown skyscrapers laid off workers in droves -- and restaurateurs suffered, he said.
But now office leasing activity ...
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A Gaelic revival, with critics Some Scots question benefits of investing in the language
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...2006 Scotland's first contemporary feature film in Gaelic is in post-production. The BBC has begun broadcasting live sports coverage in Gaelic. A Gaelic-only high school has opened in Glasgow. A leading...
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Gaelic Language Bill set for launch
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...with news that the long-awaited draft Gaelic Language Bill is to be launched ahead...modernise the national guidelines for Gaelic for those aged between five and 14, to...recognise the needs of language development in Gaelic- medium education. The bill will recognise...
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Gaelic in class of its own; EDUCATION NOTEBOOK.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Executive has now unveiled a draft Bill aimed at stemming the decline of Gaelic and promoting it in the classroom. The Gaelic Language Bill will create legislation to recognise Gaelic as a language of Scotland and establish the development body Bord...
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Gaelic-speaking mobile phone users get up to speed on texting
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...getting the text-message treatment. Gaelic-speaking mobile phone users have devised...will cause purists to shudder, younger Gaelic activists claim the trend may help save...by fewer than 60,000 Scots. A tiny Gaelic guide to texting has even been published...
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Gaelic lobby urges MSPs to stand up for status of language
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...government-funded development agency for Gaelic today will call on MSPs to vote down ministers' proposals for the future of Gaelic education. Comunn na Gaidhlig (CNAG...will be the "last opportunity for Gaelic to be given proper legal status...
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Gaelic for hikers
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...waves, their names sounding a rugged Gaelic litany - Stob a'Choire Odhair, Bealach...split ridge", and for MacLeod, a native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Lewis, just...landscape. Next month, he gives non-Gaelic-speakers the benefit of his knowledge...
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Gaelic gets TV channel
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
; A New Gaelic television channel is expected to be launched...thanks to a pounds3million boost. The Gaelic Media Service (GMS) has been given the...pounds100,000 towards the purchase of the SMG Gaelic archive which has built up in recent years...
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Gaelic to play central role at newly revamped culloden battlefield
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
; ...Inverness, will be surrounded by the Gaelic language, it was revealed yesterday...which will mark the central role played by Gaelic speakers in the last battle fought on...system and the continued repression of the Gaelic language. Given the high proportion of...
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Gaelic to be given equal status to English in Highland classrooms
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; HIGHLAND Council has drawn up a Gaelic education strategy which, for the first time in Scotland, gives Gaelic and English equal status in schools where...ethos throughout its schools to encourage Gaelic to thrive and widen the scope for it to...
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Gaelic speakers send a message to mobile firms
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; IS MATH bruidhinn.* Gaelic speakers hope that mobile phone manufacturers...Welsh speakers could be followed by a Gaelic version. The Welsh phone, a Samsung...first Irish language phone last year. Gaelic campaigners say a similar project could...
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