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...just had to have a root canal and crown on one of my molars. Because I don’t have insurance, I have had to pay $3,800 out of pocket, a huge amount for someone like me. It’s about the cost of my rent for six months. I have a second tooth that also really needs a crown, but I can’t afford it now, so it will have to wait, although I run the risk of damaging it further (and, god forbid, of losing the tooth...
...alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.com, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of a parent—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
...lunch time, and helen Clark is on to her second silly hat of the day. Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe...
...that phones are back up and life is returning to normal, my family is hunting for a place to live. My brother, his family and my mother will likely rent a house in this neighborhood until they rebuild. Me, I still get a little edgy when I hear water running in the bathtub. And I believe this storm will create one of the great migrations of Americans on a par with the Dust Bowl and the blacks moving out of the South in the 40s, 50s and 60s to the urban areas of the north...
...market earnings guidance, so the stock goes up. You focus on the short term and exercise your options and leave the public holding the bag. We have a parallel thing going on in the investment world. We've turned this from an own-a-stock industry into a rent-a-stock industry. You're in and out, and you don't give a damn about all the ownership things that are going wrong...