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...stopped pampering their pets now that we're in a recession? There are two things going on right now. First, when it comes to decisions about money and pets, the number of people who don't have a choice increases. People's houses get foreclosed and they have to rent somewhere and the landlord doesn't take pets - well, they don't have a choice anymore. Similarly, at vet hospitals when the vet says, "Listen we can do this procedure that might save your animal but it will cost $8,000." More people are saying, "Well I don't have...
Like people everywhere, I've been hit by fear. Fear that I'll lose my job. Fear that I won't be able to make my rent. Fear that my mother, who retires in June, will outlive her battered portfolio and need me to step in to help...
...That shaky performance may or may not have been influenced by the fact that Zappala, the owner of the two private detention centers receiving a guaranteed annual rent ($1.3 million) from Luzerne County, is the son of a former chief of the same court. Or maybe it was what State Chief Justice Ron Castile told a local columnist, in a sad commentary on the entire system: the judges found the state's figures on the unusually high rates of kids being sentenced to detention and getting no legal representation simply too hard to believe...
...burden, Peter must find a friend - audition strangers, go out on man-dates. His younger brother, whom Andy Samberg renders as a lout with a lot of pals, suggests a few leads, all disastrous. When Peter goes to be fitted for his marital tuxedo, he may have to rent a best man too. (Watch a video about Paul Rudd and TIME's Joel Stein on a man date...
...companies and retailers cut jobs and move to less expensive offices, the commercial real estate industry is collapsing with astonishing speed. None of the unfinished buildings were erected with cash from the developers. Banks put the money up for the physical location and structure, and perhaps even the rent from tenants, as security deposits in most cases. The land is no longer worth much. The buildings are half empty or unfinished and tenants are leaving, and, in many cases, defaulting on their leases. Lawsuits to get payment of those obligations are long and expensive. As often as not, the former...