Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Sanaz Ghazal, at No. 4, forced her opponent to the limit. Ghazal clawed back to win the second set after dropping the first, before finally falling in three...
...someone comes wooing, and you have to decide whether to uproot, how far can you go in asking for ways to soften the new landing? Right now, the sky may be the limit. "If you are fulfilling a big need in a new location, then go for it and ask for everything you want," recommends Dennis Taylor, senior consultant with Runzheimer International, a travel-management consulting firm in Rochester, Wis. If you don't get it all, you may still get more than you expected...
...distinctly American tradition. (Of course, it's based on commerce!) Its basic precept is that what sells in one area will sell in others. More importantly, what is popular in one form can be even more popular in another. Movies into toys into books into CDs--there's no limit to the number of ways the same thing can be sold...
...even if e-mail is considered inviolate, there are tactics by which the alert parent can control it. America Online, the Internet service provider used by nearly 17 million households, allows parents to limit incoming e-mail to a finite list of correspondents. In any e-mail program, a scan of the senders' addresses can give you a good idea of the nature of your kid's correspondents. The proliferation of mailing lists being such a Web commonplace, what's coming in can sometimes tell you what's been going out: even unsolicited e-mail--from, say, a Ku Klux...
...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 points more than your first mortgage. But it may make sense if you retire the second loan quickly--say within five years. These options grow more valuable as rates...