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...Lumsden, a property broker in Austin whose 27% office vacancy rate is among the highest in Texas: "The trend line is good." The Lone Star State, like the rest of America, is reeling from what many experts consider the most glutted commercial real estate market since the 1930s. The culprit: the 1980s, of course, during which U.S. office space doubled, to 5.38 billion sq. ft. In city after city the industry is overleveraged, overbuilt and underleased. At 540 million sq. ft., the unrented space across the country equals the total space available in 10 Bostons. That translates into an annual...
Many banks point to the fall of the Bank of New England as a major culprit in undermining customer trust in the banking industry...
Despite such evidence, not everyone shares the conviction that fat is the villain. Critics of this theory point out that statistical correlations are not the same as proving cause and effect. Many researchers argue that there are probably several life-style factors rather than a single culprit. "The high rates are not due to one bad habit, but to our whole way of life," says Mary-Claire King, a cancer geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley...
...culprit, obviously a novice cut-throat, later avenged his foiled plan by blasting the television in the next room so I could not hear my own tape...
Identifying the actual culprit may not be necessary since in California those who help someone commit a crime may be found as guilty as the actual perpetrator. Still, a jury could choose to convict only the gnasher on one of the meatier charges facing the pair, or a judge could decide to impose a more severe punishment. One of the four counts against each of the 21-year-old brothers, aggravated mayhem, carries a mandatory life sentence...