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...retirement income. Ursula Linke, 60, of Silver Spring, Md., and her husband, tired of earning a relatively paltry 4% to 6% on their annuities, moved their entire life savings of $700,000 into viaticals sold by Liberte Capital Group of Toledo, Ohio, which claimed to pay 14% on a one-year maturity. "We wanted to have a sound investment, retire and have some peace and tranquillity," says Linke. After the first few quarterly payments arrived from the company, the money suddenly stopped coming. Liberte Capital blames its escrow agent for the problem. Now Linke and her fellow investors' money...
...amid concerns that the FLA is too soft on industry, Harvard has also made a one-year deal with four other universities to coordinate sweatshop policies and monitoring systems. It has also hired an accounting and consulting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, to conduct the oversight...
...regional cuisine. There's absolutely nothing within walking distance, and no connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...
Williamson has been a member of local Democratic groups, tenants' rights groups, building preservation societies and other local activist groups. He wants to restore and extend affordable housing, put a one-year moratorium on commercial real-estate developments, renegotiate the "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement with Harvard, and look for a new city manager...
Teachers are signed to one-year contracts that need to be renewed annually. They are required to arrive at school at 7:30, half an hour before school starts, and stay until 3:30, half an hour after school ends. They attend at least one full faculty meeting per week. They must contact with their students' parents on a weekly basis...