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...undecided, and a televised debate scheduled for Sunday between Merkel and Schr?der could help the telegenic Chancellor. Team Schr?der also intends to step up its attacks on Merkel, in part by focusing on the CDU's plans for tax and health-care reform, which it says will benefit more affluent Germans and disadvantage poorer ones. "We have to make it clear to voters how unjust the CDU's program is," says Andrea Nahles, a leader of the SPD left wing...
Danbury's problems, of course, go deeper than that particular game. Over the past decade, the number of undocumented workers, many drawn to the city by landscaping or construction jobs in more affluent surrounding towns, has swelled to as much as 20% of its population. The influx, officials say, has also led to overstuffed apartment buildings, milling crowds of day laborers and legions of uninsured patients...
...remain in the Kaiping area, most of them built during the Republican era of 1912-49. If you're in Hong Kong (four hours away by ferry) or Guangzhou (a two-hour drive) and fancy a captivating detour, why not go see just how exuberantly this previous generation of affluent Chinese spent its cash? The best place to start, just west of Kaiping, is the village of Zili, which has 15 blockhouses. The stately Mingshilou, built in 1925 by a family that owned a chain of general stores overseas, is now a museum; its top floor has a shrine surrounded...
...Merrill Lynch is truly the wealthy, person-to-person relationship. There's only so many people you can do that with. That's where an Ameritrade comes in. While the Merrill Lynches of the world go after the wealthiest of our society, the online brokers go after the mass affluent. There are 37 million households that have between $100,000 and $1 million in assets. Clearly the full-service firms can't come close to getting all of those. The online brokerages can. We have about 3.5 million clients. Our typical client has about $125,000 in investable assets...
...less in a year than Imelda spent on a single pair of shoes. "I am appalled by the greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malacaņang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...