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Sirius Value Protection offers to calm investor jitters by guaranteeing the long-term value of the property through the put option, says Herzberg. At the same time, the program gives the developer, fund manager, bank, or homebuilder - whoever currently owns the newly-built home - a competitive edge over rivals, he says...
Some also question the program's long-term financial viability. Sirius Value isn't regulated since it's neither an insurance product nor a security, and experts caution that a lot can happen to a market, program or company in the eight years before the put option can be exercised. "Do they have the financial resources and will they be here eight years from now?" asks Curran...
...military lead," Romney writes in support of maintaining healthy defense budgets. "We must pay a large price to maintain our freedoms, and if we do not pay enough in dollars, we may be forced to pay the price in blood." He also charges - somewhat incongruously - that "it is long past time for America to strengthen and effectively deploy our soft power," which is, of course, partly what Obama is trying to do by toning down the Bush Administration's rhetoric...
...only lasted until 2001, when he was fired by Trent Lott over his advice on the budget resolution. Lott reinstalled Frumin - making him the only parliamentarian to be appointed by both parties - who then stuck to Dove's recommendations. "I've known Alan very well for a very long time," says Dove, who now teaches at George Washington University and practices law at Patton Boggs. "He's more than up for the job." Frumin, as is tradition for sitting parliamentarians, declined to be interviewed for this story...
...desk inside Bala Hissar, an ancient brick fortress that looms above the rooftops of Peshawar, General Tariq Khan heard an unusual sound drifting up. "It was music," says the general. "And I hadn't heard it in a long, long time...