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...stay across the street, in fact, at the By the C. There is a parking lot there now, and two houses beside it have also been turned into asphalt. Most people drive to Atlantic City, and parking spaces near the Boardwalk, where the Montpelier is, are at a premium. A fourth house, now empty, will soon be torn down too. The woman who owns it was offered $300,000 last year, Shuster observes, but held out for $325,000. After she closed up last winter, someone broke in and ripped out all her plumbing; rather than replace it, she gave...
...letters all the time saying, 'I got a kid and it looks like you and it needs a bicycle now and some pencils and a notebook by next year.' " His defense: a unique form of paternity insurance with Lloyd's of London for a premium of more than $10,000 a year...
...commercially cultivated jojoba oil has yet reached the market. But businessmen are already harvesting and processing the wild bean, and demand is strong. Chief buyers are cosmetics manufacturers, including Max Factor, Estee Lauder and Shiseido, a large Japanese firm. They are using jojoba oil as an ingredient in premium shampoos, moisturizers, sunscreens and conditioners...
...very least, some court observers hope that her consensus-building experience as a legislator, with its premium on dealing with personalities, as well as the fact that she is a woman, will dissolve some of the aloofness among the brethren. There is little personal rapport and togetherness on the current court -and the Justices tend to communicate with one another only in writing. The result is often a series of individual opinions based on conflicting rationales that confuse the impact of a majority decision. Powell has called the court "nine one-man law firms." A touch of warmth and sociability...
...premium prices that the Saudis and other OPEC members command for their oil have pushed many developing nations into a state of destitution. The mountain of Third World debt now exceeds $370 billion, but the Saudis have used only a small fraction of their available revenues for foreign aid and low-interest loans. Demands are thus increasing that the Saudis do more to help...