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CNBC went off-line this weekend as they suburb-hopped into a new headquarters in New Jersey. Thankfully, a pastime more commonly regarded as a spectator sport was heating up, providing me with another way to fill my free time and saving me from a weekend of cigarettes and the shakes. The playoffs were my methadone clinic...
...there will be some stiff competition this year,” Bienvenu said. “The team will be looking to runners, like freshman Sean Barrett, to fill out our top-five scorers. Right now we’re in a position to upset a number of teams in the league...
Fund investors looking for an immediate income stream are bound for disappointment. I could find only one proven dividend fund with a yield above 2%: American Funds Washington Mutual (2.1%). The just launched Alpine Dynamic Dividend Fund hopes to fill this void, aiming for a yield above 4%. But its strategy calls for heavy turnover in a third of the portfolio as it tries to capture dividends and then sell. Alpine Management is adept at tax efficiency. Yet heavy trading leaves investors vulnerable to a tax bill from short-term gains...
...abhor all this, but the food scientists are only doing what we ask them to do: respond to the needs of 280 million people all trying to eat at once and do so in the most enjoyable, affordable and nutritious way possible. It's the industry's job to fill the national plate; it's our job to decide which parts of that vast meal we want to eat. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...those awkward dining hall conversations you have with decreasing frequency after freshman year. The friend of a friend and I, abandoned during the dessert course by our mutual acquaintance, were trying to fill the silences between sips of coffee with pleasantries. We had inquired about each others’ concentrations; where we’d grown up; which courses we had decided to take; how we had spent our respective summers. Then, when the silence lengthened uncomfortably, I cleared my throat and introduced a formula I’d relied upon since elementary school: “So, what...