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...Munis don't offer the same sleep-at-night safety they used to," says Christopher Cordaro, a financial planner at Regent Atlantic in Morristown, NJ. Earlier this year, Cordaro, who has been a planner for 22 years, began advising clients for the first time in his career to trim their muni bond holdings. "Municipalities across the country are in rough shape." (See TIME's "25 People to Blame for the Financial Collapse...
...City Councillor Sam Yoon at a recent community meeting in which he advocated for a re-structuring of the BRA’s authority. “Let the community make the tradeoffs.” Proponents of the current structure add that the community has the chance to offer its say through the Harvard Allston Task Force, an advisory panel of local residents appointed by the Mayor to facilitate discourse between the University, City, and the community at bi-weekly meetings. But the Task Force is vested with no legal authority and is often restricted to examining concerns explicitly...
...says CEO Marchioli. The additional customers buying juice and coffee with their free breakfasts, plus the repeat business the giveaways generate, cover the cost. "We've already paid for the Super Bowl promotion, and then some," Marchioli said on April 8, the day of the two-for-one offer. "And today is a profit-making exercise. For giving it away, do I make less margin? Yes. But I drive new traffic. And in this economy, particularly for Denny's, it's important to drive new traffic. It's about taking share that we've had over the years, and that...
This is where you start thinking about the insanity of war. About the false sense of security that two metal plates and Kevlar webbing offer when they are presented in glossy catalogs. About how vulnerable flesh is to metal projectiles. It wasn't my life that flashed before my eyes, but all the descriptions of wounds I'd heard from the buddies of injured soldiers. Faces blown off, shattered shoulders and mangled limbs - all the points exposed by the limits of Kevlar. What is more insane than running 200 meters through gunfire to reach the safety...
...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...