Word: condo
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Retired Harvard oncologist Ralph Kennaugh and business partner Angelo B. Amadio claimed upwards of $27 million worth of art was stolen from the condo they rented in Pebble Beach, Calif. in a police report filed September...
...this current economic situation, walking up and down the strip in Las Vegas is a bit like watching a poker table where all the hotel, condo and casino owners are sitting. A lot are folding, others are checking and a few are all in, but all of them are keeping a poker face. Whatever the pot is, gamblers will never change. Even a bad hand won't stop the Americans' unquenchable capacity for hope. Tristan Meillard, RENNES, FRANCE...
...expand and burst, growing fuller with each verse, culminating in a heavenly guitar solo. “Nothing to Hide” is more ragged but still impeccable. Drawing on the raw, garage-rock sensibility of “Fuckbook” (the March LP of their alter-egos, Condo Fucks), the band refines the genre with more polished harmonies, precise rhythms, and bright, crisp organ.The album’s centerpiece comes, fittingly, at song 6 of 12 tracks. “If It’s True” begins with a bass line immediately echoed by soaring strings...
...state that worshipped condo-flippers as great entrepreneurs, it was all a house of cards waiting to be blown down when the housing bubble burst. Now that it has happened, those Floridians who haven't left the state had hoped their officials might change the way they do things - or at least not attend a Kentucky Derby party hosted by the same FPL honchos lobbying them for a rate hike, as a Florida Public Service Commission director has admitted to doing a few months ago. But if Miami and Florida officials can't get their acts together, they can probably...
...another example take, well, Dean Baker. He and his wife sold their condo in Washington in the spring of 2004 and started renting. The cost of a house relative to a typical apartment rent had doubled in four years - you didn't have to be an economist to notice. That spread has narrowed substantially, but by Baker's calculations, there's more to go. Yet that didn't stop him from buying a couple of months ago. "We got an interest rate at the absolute bottom," he says, "and we wanted outdoor space...