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...kept saying, 'Sam, should she really be wearing the glasses? Shouldn't I just prop them on the top of my head?' And he said, 'Absolutely not!' So I thought, Well, I trust him completely, and this is a whole new challenge - someone has taken my eyes away. But the silences are where I have learned the most about the job that I do. They're where I learn to think...
...What other odds will you offer for this year's Oscars? We always offer what are called "proposition," or "prop," bets. This year, I took the total number of nominations for each movie and set a number for how many total Oscars the movie will win. Bettors choose to go over or under that number. So let's take Benjamin Button. The movie received 13 nominations. I hung the number at 2.5 and think the under is the favorite, meaning I don't think that movie will win any more than two Oscars overall. Another fun prop...
...sales next year. Bombardier is working on the Q400X, a 90-seater, which would be the largest turboprop in the world, to compete quietly with even bigger jets. As turbos continue to make noise in aviation, at least it's no longer the kind we've always expected. PROP-U-LAR Worldwide orders for turboprop aircraft with 20 to 90 seats
...buyers there. But if we're still not in the ballpark of normality overall--and certain market watchers think we might see prices drop an additional 10% to 15% nationally before this thing is over--then spending billions to spur on buyers won't be a magical fix. "To prop up prices above fundamentally justified levels is throwing good money after bad," says Joe Gyourko, professor of real estate and finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Overboosting homeownership helped get us into this mess, after...
...first, the Kremlin tried to prop up the currency, but after blowing through tens of billions of dollars in September and October, it changed course in November and has since begun a policy of phased devaluation. That's calling up bad memories of the ruble's collapse in 1998 and prompting nervous talk around kitchen tables about what...