Word: condo
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...Catholic churches--in part to help support the woman and three children he had been secretly living with. Last year a Connecticut priest was accused of pilfering up to $1.4 million to pay for his Audi cars, luxury-hotel stays, jewelry for his boyfriend and a Fort Lauderdale condo. And last June another priest was sentenced to five years in prison after the misappropriation of $2 million from the Church of the Holy Cross in Rumson...
...course, couture frocks don't have much impact these days, since they cost the same as a waterfront condo in Miami and their influence on lesser-priced lines has waned. But Galliano's ostentatiously uncommercial show was a statement in itself. With it, he thumbed his nose at relevance and the drive to get designers to inveigle their clothes onto the red carpet or to compete with the high-frequency deliveries at H&M. From the moment the first model stepped gingerly under a bow of blossoms in a fuchsia kimono jacket to the last sigh of a corseted bride...
...also gets much credit for the city's dramatic downtown revival, with its emphasis on flower planting and condo development. The 2005 opening of the $500 million Millennium Park - exorbitant cost overruns notwithstanding - has been a crowning achievement. His latest endeavor is to imprint the sparkling urban visage on the rest of the world: Daley is currently consumed with luring the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Chicago, and he's already traveled to Beijing, Athens and Barcelona for insights on how those host cities fared...
They're divided into two camps. There are the gringos who go down there and live in gated communities or in condo complexes. They don't mingle as much. In our village, we live with our Mexican neighbors. My first next-door neighbor was a construction worker, and there were chickens running up and down the dirt road. By the way, chickens gobble down scorpions, so that makes them really good neighbors...
...sell your big home for $600,000 and immediately buy a condo for $300,000, and housing prices drop 10% over the next 12 months, as some economists forecast. In the condo, you would lose just $30,000 on paper; in the house, you would lose $60,000. The condo savings, however, don't include expenses, which you incur whenever you move...