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...British pound, which closed last week just a few cents short of $2, its highest in 14 years. Many investors are betting that the decline will continue. "The dollar has no friends in currency markets at the moment," says Neil Mackinnon, chief currency strategist for the British financial firm ECU Group...
...glossy Russian-language magazine, New Style, that advertises fat diamonds and kitchens in "walnut, white and platinum" and runs articles comparing the virtues of cars costing more than $200,000. Russians bought one-quarter of the central-London properties priced above $9 million that the real estate firm Savills sold this year...
Tanner & Haley was the industry's first meltdown. Its 874 members, who had paid from $85,000 (in the early days) to $1.3 million (in more recent years) to join, could lose most of their deposit. The firm owned only 67 of the 200 properties it managed (the rest were leased) and did not have sufficient assets to cover the expense of refunding membership fees...
...their siblings as a scorecard showing who is more loved. Yet in most families, total equality is impossible to achieve. What to do? Be realistic, experts say, and accept that the playing field may not be level. The message, says Jennifer Coleman, a life-transition counselor at Rosen Law Firm in Raleigh, N.C., should be that no matter who spends what on whom, all the children are valued equally...
...developments over there." Baker turned up last Monday with a draft report he wanted panel members to consider or amend and then get into the President's hands. Democrats led by Hamilton, Perry and Leon Panetta, Clinton's ex--chief of staff, were adamant that the report recommend a firm starting point for troop withdrawals. When the Republicans again refused, members agreed on language that would leave the date vague but the vector clear. And then the group adjourned...