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Many planners, however, have started offering to charge by the hour. Others are more willing to craft one-time financial plans. Still others have slashed management fees and account minimums for performing the simpler work of asset allocation, rather than picking specific investments. These new ways of paying are well suited to investors who are willing to do some of the work themselves or who need advice only on a specific problem...
Apparently, dedication to any extracurricular outside of athletics lies beyond the scope of Pascavage’s condescending view of her non-athlete peers. Such an attitude dismisses passionate community service volunteers as ruthless resume-builders, master musicians as frauds without true dedication to their craft and so on. It should offend anyone who has ever loved or cared about an activity other than a sport...
...embroil the agency in a Watergate cover-up; in Washington, D.C. Helms played a critical role in plotting the assassination attempts on foreign leaders (including Cuba's Fidel Castro) and overthrowing Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1971. Tall and dashingly good-looking, Helms mastered the art of spy craft at the wartime Office of Strategic Services before it became...
...Little wonder, then, that traffic fatalities are expected to top 12,000 this year. The cost of healthcare and other accident-related damage is mounting, and now amounts to about 2% of the country's annual GDP, says Greig Craft, president of the Hanoi-based Asian Injury Prevention Foundation. "The hospitals are gridlocked with accident victims," he says. "The doctors can't treat anyone else. It's a huge crisis...
...shop in Vietnam has put investment plans on hold, according to Oyama, the Honda director. "This is not just a motorcycle issue," warns a senior Japanese official. "People everywhere are watching closely to see whether Vietnam is really committed to opening up to investment." Even a safety advocate like Craft is mystified as to what Hanoi hopes to achieve, "They're playing with an 8,000-pound gorilla here, and it's giving Vietnam's reputation such a black eye. Why piss off Japan...