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PREFERRED STOCK Traditional preferreds would win big. With tax-free yields of 7% or so, they would be a bargain. But more common hybrid preferreds, which pay higher yields, would remain taxable. As with most bonds, stick them...
...store, Herry Andriavaloherinaiva, 35, is looking intently through the racks of ceramic bowls and cloth napkins. Like thousands of other Parisians mobbing the stores during the after-Christmas sales, Andriavaloherinaiva is braving not just France's frosty weather but an equally chilly economic climate in his pursuit of a bargain. He is unfazed by the downturn that has led some economists to predict France's GDP growth could be as low as .9% in 2003. "I'm not worried," he says. "I still have the same spending pattern as always." But many government and industry types are plenty worried. Beset...
...PREFERRED STOCK Traditional preferreds would win big. With tax-free yields of 7% or so, they would be a bargain. But more common hybrid preferreds, which pay higher yields, would remain taxable. As with most bonds, stick them...
Despite initial installation costs usually upwards of $400,000 for a synthetic-grass field, compared with $150,000 for grass, the increased usage and much reduced maintenance costs can make the switch a bargain. And teams that have the new synthetic grass say it's safer than real grass, which can become dangerously uneven if it's overused. Steve Lowe, groundkeeper for the Claremont School District, says players have had many fewer injuries on the synthetic field...
...couldn't expunge every last bit of sex from this stretch of neon and noise. Wander off the beaten path to find an endless array of peep shows, provided by the city's finest out-of-work Broadway dancers. Such a deal! Best of all, no standing in that bargain ticket line with the rest of the tourists...