Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suharto's second son, has an $8 million penthouse in Singapore and a $12 million mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, just up the street from his brother Sigit Harjoyudanto's $9 million home. Eldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana ("Tutut") may have sold her Boeing 747-200 jumbo jet, but the family's fleet of planes included, at least until recently, four other jets...
...fastest-growing sports in the U.S., with some 32 million devotees. And along with its growing popularity has come an array of new designs and high-tech materials, from carbon-injected plastic to glass-reinforced nylon. But I didn't really care about all that techie mumbo-jumbo. I just wanted a skate that felt fast, light and, above all, comfortable...
...Jake Lloyd), a confident and too-cute 9-year-old slave who possesses an unprecedented potential for the all-powerful Force. Qui-Gon believes that the boy may be The Chosen One, the one who will restore balance to the Force. There's all kinds of ridiculous scientific mumbo jumbo about Anakin's seemingly immaculate conception, but Qui-Gon's so far-gone by this point that we have no choice but to follow his lead...
With rates near historic lows and jumbo rates relatively low compared to conventional mortgage rates, there's little reason to sweat this issue at the moment. Go for the jumbo if you can afford it. If you're just over the breakpoint, you could make a larger down payment to reduce your loan amount. But that money might be better spent in a stock fund. Another option is a piggyback structure, where you borrow just under the jumbo limit and take a second loan for the rest. That second mortgage comes at a hefty premium--maybe a couple of percentage...
DIED. AL HIRT, 76, corpulent pop and jazz trumpeter also known as "Jumbo" and "the Round Mound of Sound"; of liver disease; in New Orleans. The ever affable Hirt was an institution in his hometown of New Orleans, where he ran a Bourbon Street club and had a stake in football's Saints. During a five-decade career, he toured with Big Bands led by Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, recorded more than 50 albums and won a Grammy. He continued to play local clubs until the last weeks of his life...