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...government hopes the high-end properties will be purchased by wealthy locals as well as expat residents and overseas investors. To bring in the latter, a new property law was passed last year making Sentosa Cove the first land in Singapore that could be owned by foreign individuals (through 99-year leases) without special government clearance. Previously, foreigners could not easily secure land rights; those wishing to invest were obliged to purchase condominiums...
...they sailed, from Florida to Gitmo, in the vagrant hope that 9/11 heroes might get the same high-end care the government said it was lavishing on 9/11 terror suspects. His bullhorn pleas met with silence, Moore took his cargo of the ailing - the rescue workers, Donna and Larry Smith and a few others featured in the film - to Havana, where they got excellent, imaginative, sympathetic care from a local clinic. (At least one of the patients returned on her own, and told the Associated Press she received the same level of treatment...
...those screwed by the System; in Sicko, at least seven interviewees start crying as they describe the lack of attention their maladies got. And when they're not getting misty over the inhumanity of it all, you may - when you see surveillance footage of mentally disoriented outpatients from the high-end University of Southern California hospital who are put in a cab and dumped near an L.A. Skid Row homeless facility when their coverage runs...
...meet a celebrity and they become your best friend. You just hang out in Hollywood and it will be so cool. I think we're really quite optimistic, but I think we're quite grounded. On the one hand, she's leading a rather glitzy life and shopping at high-end stores and buying a big house and her husband's very successful. But actually deep down, she's still just the girl who loves her parents and comes from a normal family, and she never loses sight of that...
...major retailers, including sporting-goods chains, and is steadily adding accounts in golf-course pro shops, where its market penetration is about 50%. Nike Golf has opened 75 stores in China, and it has its eye on South Korea as well. To show that it can compete with the high-end service of its competitors, Nike plans later this year to provide custom fitting, a feature that had been available only on a limited scale...