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...TOBACCO 43 Number of U.S. states that have increased tobacco taxes since 2002; state tobacco taxes generated $14.5 billion in revenue last year 7? The country's lowest cigarette tax, imposed by South Carolina, whose Republicans are lobbying to increase it by 50? a pack...
...grade appreciate the bank's blend of snob appeal and personal service. In a recent survey of U.K. private bank and wealth-management customers published by Market-Dynamics Research & Consulting (MDRC), C. Hoare & Co. achieved a client-satisfaction score of 82. Industry wide, that rate slumped below 60, the lowest in years. Common complaints: poor communication and rapid turnover in bankers assigned to manage relationships with clients. With a fifth of C. Hoare & Co.'s 250 staff clocking up 20 years in the job, the bank pledges a level of personal attention not seen elsewhere. "Unlike most private banks that...
...sunny Saturday weather that the team was admiring.“It was nice to see the pair of 68s on the scoreboard,” Balmert said. “That was beautiful.” The two scores of 68 were the second lowest rounds of the entire weekend.As if that was not enough, the highlight of the day came from Hazlett (76-74-75-225), whose hole-in-one on the second to last hole of the day led to huge cheers from those in attendance. “Jessica’s hole...
Unfortunately, Obama’s track from 1863 to 2008 railroads the facts. Economist Thomas Sowell recounts reality in his book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies.” Today, African Americans have the lowest marriage rate of any racial group in the country, and lower labor force participation rates than whites. At the turn of the 20th century, however, blacks had higher marriage rates than whites. They also had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every census from 1890 to 1950. The problems that Obama cites are recent trends, not ancestral legacies...
...since there is much he clearly dislikes about American materialism and pop culture. Today he explained that "perhaps," after all, America's brand of secularism "poses a particular problem: it allows for professing belief in God... but at the same time it can subtly reduce religious belief to a lowest common denominator. Faith can become a passive acceptance... without practical relevance for everyday life. The result is a growing separation of faith from life." Combined with what he called our "individualistic and eclectic approach to faith," he said this can lead to what he noted St. Paul termed a temptation...