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...vendor has an order for a couple thousand pounds of roast beef," says Carpenter, the meat and poultry buyer for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). "I'II pick out the ones I want...
...Time and Warner have long been considered takeover targets, and speculation arose that a raider might go after one of them soon, before a merger could create a nearly invulnerable behemoth. Everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Warren Buffet, the shrewd Omaha-based investor, was mentioned as a possible buyer. But no suitor had come forward by week's end. Time's shares gained 6 5/8 for the week, to close at 115 3/4, and Warner's rose...
...because he needed money for an operation for his daughter. Capitalism in action: one person had $4,400 and wanted a kidney, another person had a spare kidney and wanted $4,400, so they did a deal. What's more, it seems like an advantageous deal all around. The buyer avoided a lifetime of dialysis. The seller provided crucial help to his child, at minimum risk to himself. (According to the Economist, the chance of a kidney donor's dying as a result of the loss...
While longtime homeowners are sitting on an ever growing nest egg, which they can tap for their next house or other purchases, first-time buyers have few assets and too little salary to catch up. In a particularly gloomy report, the National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time...
...addition, the ruling found that Rickard told the property's buyer, Arthur Abbott, that she had illegally converted the property. The board recommended that Abbott and his partner, Victor Balk, be ordered to restore the building to its original state...