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...course, critical for working moms and dads, but now companies are paying increasing attention to other family members. About 1 out of 3 large companies offer elder-care assistance, with IBM helping lead the way. Many provide counseling, workshops and flexible-spending accounts for caregiving services, while others contract with referral services...
...competence to return to his native Belgium for what seems a routine job--offing a corrupt city official. It's the second part of the contract, belatedly revealed to him, that shatters his composure. He's supposed to kill a 12-year-old-girl. To Ledda she's an innocent, and it offends his killer's code to snuff her out. When he discovers that the child has been prostituted by her father and that her chief client is the son of a highly placed government official, Ledda switches sides. He was himself an abused child--it's the reason...
Store builder Garner is unconcerned with Wal-Mart's corporate critics. "I think when you're the biggest and the best at what you do, people want to come after you," she says. Before Garner scored her contract with Wal-Mart, she flew to Wal-Mart's head office in Bentonville, Ark. Garner was on her own personal fact-finding mission. She had read much of the press on Wal-Mart and concluded that the company had got a raw deal. She returned convinced that Wal-Mart could be a great partner for the black community. "You know what...
...Still, a growing number of developers nationwide are increasingly working "anti-investor clauses" and other "flip-buster" weapons into their sales contracts. Many now demand that buyers pledge in writing that they'll actually occupy the home they buy (or at least disclose whether the unit will be a primary or secondary residence or merely an investment). Others, like Robins, limit the number of units a person can purchase in any one development; and some, like StarPointe Properties of Arizona, are requiring investors to close on (and take title to) the property they're buying. Hilton and Meritage, as well...
Harvard Real Estate Services Project Manager Philip Kramer listed an original contract price of $2,615,000, with architectural, design, internal Harvard, and inspection fees and contingency costs bringing the total approved cost of Memorial Church renovations...