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...Phuket, however, the vacation market is dominated by condominiums or villa complexes managed by luxury hoteliers. Such management services come at a premium - these properties cost about 30% more than similar nonbranded villas - but you don't have to worry about whether the gardener is feuding with the cook...
...just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today.' THOMAS J. DART, sheriff of Cook County, Ill., on suspending foreclosure evictions in the Chicago area because renters were not being properly notified about their landlords' financial problems...
...fortunes have changed. But the real question is whether Democrats can pick up the nine seats they need to grab a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. At this point, the answer still seems to be probably not. But such able handicappers as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report now think the Democrats could gain as many as eight seats, which would mean they would need no more than a single GOP vote or so to prevail on any given issue. That would also give them the cushion to do the one thing that many of them...
...That could be a risk in these consumer-cautious times, but the rate of Mac sales has exceeded the growth rate of PC sales for the past four years, despite Apple's higher prices. And by commanding (and getting) that higher price, its revenue has soared. According to Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, "one out of every three dollars spent in retail [on computers] is spent on a Macintosh...
Apple sold some 2.5 million Macs last quarter, the most ever. Cook argued that customers flock to Apple simply for its products. He also credited Apple's snappy advertising campaign and seductive retail stores, where more than 400,000 people enter daily. He even gave a backhanded thanks to Microsoft, saying that the company's much maligned Vista operating system drove users to Apple. "I think it's fair to say that Vista hasn't lived up to everything Microsoft has said it would," Cook claimed. "And consequently it's opened doors for a lot of people to switch...