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Others are inclined to give big investors the benefit of the doubt. "If people are really stretching the law - doing outright harassment to remove tenants - that's not a good thing, but I don't think that most big institutional investors knowingly will target deals like that or knowingly target deals with partners where they think that might happen," says Andy McCulloch, senior residential analyst with Green Street Advisors, a property research shop...
...payments the banks made to the government, the fourth quarter was still a doozy. Sales at Citigroup, for instance, fell in three of its biggest units - investment banking, consumer banking and transaction processing - compared with the prior quarter. So while Citi's government-assistance repayment accounts for a big part of its losses, even without that, the bank still lost $1.4 billion in the last quarter of 2009. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...big printed shoe fell on Wednesday, when the New York Times partially lifted the veil on its plan to charge for access to its website. Speculation has been rife in media circles on how the nation's most influential and successful paper would go about touching what some consider to be the third rail of Web content. The Times' answer? Very gingerly. In effect, the paper seems to be asking its readers, Don't you really actually want...
Killorn broke away toward the net, and though his attempt was broken up by a Big Green defender, he played the puck to a charging Biega, who put the puck into the empty net to extend the lead...
...even come close. But thanks to his promise to use his crucial vote to block the Democrats' congressional health care reform bill, he has gained the support of conservative special-interest groups and beat Democratic opponent Martha Coakley in the Jan. 19 special election. This is big news in Massachusetts - and Washington. A Brown victory - for the seat of liberal lion and health care reform champion Ted Kennedy, no less - signals the extent of national discord over the bill, even in a left-leaning state that hasn't elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1972. (See Ted Kennedy...