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...million. No one knows how much has been borrowed to play the market, but this has been a hot issue since margin debt at brokerage firms soared in recent months to $244 billion, equal to a record 1.4% of the market value of U.S. public companies. Most firms will lend investors as much as 50% of the value of their securities. The interest on such margin loans is fully deductible as long as you have an equal amount of investment income. The loans tend to be used to buy more stocks...
Certain jobs somehow lend themselves towards informal conversation. There's the hairdresser who blow-dries while discussing who's sleeping with whom, the bartender who consoles the heartbroken with a pint of Sammie, the J. Crew saleswoman who becomes your body-image consultants. Then, of course, there is the cabbie...
...main aspects of community is support. We are not a community if all we do is lend an appreciative ear to traditional songs or clap after cultural performances. We need to support each other in times of need, we need to support our extended communities and show that we are not a conglomerate of separate communities, but a consolidated community that will not be divided...
...Universities have power through their licensing agreement so they can lend a voice and lend their power to helping workers improve themselves," she says. "We'll be able to raise awareness in that sector to create a higher standard and use that as a model for the whole industry...
...course people are anal, antisocial, busy," he wrote in an e-mail message. "Harvard is a community essentially based on the individual and his or her attempt to move forward and succeed in getting what is desired.... It doesn't lend itself to generous human interaction...