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...something so overflowed her bodice that it expressed itself beyond her will.An Italian costumed as a station master was looking in the same direction as Filippo. With a wink, he gestured at Felicity’s ample figure. “I’d like to stick my fork in that plate of gnocchi,” the Italian said.“Gnocchi? Ehh...absolutamente!” Ollie said, impressed at the station master’s turn of phrase.Ollie was dressed in a satin waistcoat and a hat that he believed marked him at once...
...meal occupied more by oogling than chewing, he left the restaurant not with a hand-penned autograph, but with some first-hand celebrity DNA. Upon chatting with the waitress and discovering that Justin’s wine glass had already been claimed (his overtures for Justin’s fork were for naught, as Timberlake was eating a sandwich), Noyer recalls, “I said something like, ‘OMG, would it be like totally ‘I Love Lucy’ of me to take a souvenir?’” While the common...
Even after committing $285 billion over the past couple of weeks to bail out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insurer AIG, the Federal Government is now looking to fork over more - much more...
...annually) pay only 30% of their monthly adjusted income toward rent. The government makes up the difference to the participating landlords. Many building owners, however, have been suffering from what critics call "HUD fatigue" - frustration with dealing with government bureaucracy when it comes to getting the government to fork over the subsidies. Dean Chaussee, who has owned and managed properties in suburban Seattle through his Westwood Management since 1975, is waiting to opt out of his Section 8 contract when it expires because of what he says is unfair treatment from HUD. "We sign a contract to provide housing...
...billion in the first six months of this year. That, along with losses in other investment portfolios, has cut deeply into the parent company's capital reserves. The credit-default-swap contracts decree that if AIG's credit rating drops below a certain level, it has to fork over $13 billion in collateral to the buyers of the swaps. Monday night, because of the losses at AIG FP and in AIG's investment portfolios, Moody's and S&P cut the company's ratings. After that, the consensus was that the company could survive only another...