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...want them to believe that they have a stake in the U.N.,” Sorenson said. “I am also very eager to see if some of them are interested in U.N. careers...
...head the Great Eagle Hotel's Bostonian, he began having entrepreneurial aspirations when Tammy developed a craving for tacos-hardly an easy find in his new city. The Californian couple started asking around to see if others were feeling the same home-style longings, and discovered an eager market for Mexican (and responded with Taco Loco in June last year). But they also found an even bigger craving lurking in Hong Kong expat stomachs: deli food. "We found this craziness, this fervor for deli," says Levin...
...country gather together in what has become the female bonding experience of the moment. In Contra Costa County, Calif., women's bunco games rival bridge parties in popularity. In Garden City, N.Y., 10 new bunco groups have started in the past two years, with waiting lists of women eager to get in on a monthly game. Like reading groups, Tupperware parties and quilting bees before them, bunco games give women an opportunity to break away from their routine and nurture a camaraderie...
That could change as early as next year. Lawmakers appear eager to reduce or eliminate the tax on dividends from common stock, and they may do the same for dividends from convertible and traditional preferred stock as well--though not for dividends from the new breed of fully taxable preferred. That prospect is driving up the prices of dividend-paying stocks...
...Julie Bradford, editor of the U.S.-based All About Beer magazine, says the microbrew boom stems from "an interest in tradition, flavor and quality, and as reaction against globalization." Few Asian countries have embraced the trend like Japan, where the economy may be stuttering but bargoers are still eager to spend their yen on a pint of jibiiru, or craft beer, from one of the country's 300 or so microbreweries. And we're not just talking about local favorites; the popular Yona Yona Ale from Yoho Brewing in Nagano and Hitachino Nest Beer of Kiuchi Brewery have both...