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...furnish Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, with $5 million in seed money annually for his own label, publishing arm and management company, with significantly more funds available for future acquisitions and expansion. He will also receive a $25 million upfront payment and $10 million per album for a minimum of three albums over the next decade...
...injected another kind of novelty into the region: stock fever. The newspapers were filled with ads offering loans - usually with exorbitant interest rates - to help Kenyans buy shares. Poor people who didn't even have bank accounts complained about a minimum investment requirement of 10,000 shillings (just over $150). And on the first day of the IPO, thousands of people lined up in downtown Nairobi to snap up shares. It was perhaps most emblematic that one Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation, referred to potential investors as "punters," as if by buying Safaricom shares they were betting on a racehorse...
...that this war has largely been fought by a victim class whose motives for joining the military are rarely noble or exemplary. These are people for whom the military - with its enlistment bonuses, its promises of health, educational and even travel benefits - represents their best chance to escape a minimum-wage life. It is a measure of their desperation that they are willing to risk their lives to claim these boons. It is a measure of their dutifulness that they often evoke a certain patriotism to rationalize their choice. There is nothing ignoble about this deal and there is nothing...
...doesn't include college costs in its estimates, since it covers kids only up to age 18, it should take into account the amount of money parents need to save in order to eventually afford those $50,000 tuition bills. Most financial advisers urge parents to set aside a minimum of $1,000 per child a month, which alone would nearly double the government's total childrearing estimate...
...ensure that families can stay in their homes.' His proposal would give lenders incentives to buy or refinance existing adjustable-rate mortgages and convert them to 30-year fixed ones 'Eliminate the AMT, which the middle class was never intended to pay.' McCain wants to end the alternative minimum tax, which hit approximately 4 million taxpayers in 2006, up from 414,000 in 1995 NAFTA Should the trade pact be modified to add environmental and labor protections? Yes She says these protections should be enforced just like those dealing with commerce Yes A leaked memo implied his stance was "political...