Word: condo
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...What is a principal residence? If you spend seven months a year in a Baltimore, Md., duplex and five in a Miami condo, it's the duplex. You can easily prove you used it as your main home for two (not necessarily consecutive) years of the five before you sold; just produce appropriate bills and receipts. (Year-round landscaping bills won't cut it, but supermarket receipts will...
...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
...China with fears of deprivation and isolation. He brought a 1.8-kilogram tub of peanut butter from the Safeway in Flagstaff, Arizona. "We figured that would hold him," his wife says, "until I could get there with the Hamburger Helper." Alisha shows off the well-stocked larder in the condo: Welch's Strawberry Spread, Bush's Original Baked Beans, Franco-American Gravy and Post Cranberry Almond Crunch cereal, all of it personally delivered by Alisha?who is completing her nursing studies at Northern Arizona?when she arrived on Christmas break...
...true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings: a ranch in tony Telluride, Colo.; a house in Palm Springs, Calif.; an estate called Casa Berman Palmillia on the Mexican Riviera; a condo in Las Vegas; and a $5 million estate in Wayzata, Minn. By his account, as of September 2001, he was worth almost $69 million...
...Brown is less fortunate. Although she is one of five children, Gem, 36, bears most of the responsibility for her ailing father Hencliffe, 73, a retired mail-room worker. Gem, who works full time for a medical home-care company, has moved her dad into her two-bedroom condo in Mount Laurel, N.J., so that she can look after him. She has enrolled her father at the Tender, an adult day-care program that he attends while she's at the office, and she schedules morning doctor's visits so she can get to work on time. Gem's brother...