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...build more roads," he says, explaining that a new road would encourage development at the district's nano-technology research center, an earlier pork-barrel project. Besides, Yamaguchi needs to show the folks back home that he can be as effective as his predecessor, a veteran LDP power broker: "I have to show that even though I am not in the LDP, I can deliver," he says...
...recent night, photographer Gary Laufman was telling his date about a tequila flavored with habanero peppers. "I wanted to call 911," he said. "They could use it at Cape Canaveral." Tex Currie, 49, a securities broker, boasted that he could identify 50 tequilas in a blind test. Such aficionados often join Julio's annual tour of distilleries in Jalisco, in central Mexico, where most tequila is made. And the sight of them brings smiles to Mexican farmers, as they scramble to plant more agave...
...expect stocks to be sluggish for a while, so now is an especially good time to incorporate dividends into your portfolio. Three solid mutual funds that specialize in cash-paying stocks are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from the American Funds group. You might also send a message to billg@microsoft.com Show me the money, Bill...
...calculus has several steps, Feinberg explains. First, the government will estimate how much a victim would have earned over his or her lifetime had the planes never crashed. That means a broker's family will qualify for a vastly higher award than a window washer's family. To estimate this amount, each family was handed an easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic...
Johnson was determined to beat those odds. He set about tracing a phone number on a fraudulent application for credit that had been made in his name. And he scored, in part by paying $25 to an online data broker--an information mercenary who may not care whether you're trying to track down a long-lost cousin or steal her identity. Johnson went so far as taking the subway to the suspect's address to match his name to an apartment number, noting there were flower boxes in his windows. "I felt like Angela Lansbury," he says...