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...Commonwealth sold the house to Andrew Cabot, who promptly resold it to Elbridge Gerry, Class of 1762. Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dearly loved his “Mansion House” at Elmwood, and it was in the house’s parlor that he stood on March 4, 1813 to take the oath of office as Vice President of the United States...
...clothes and a plane ticket-but the payoff is upwards of $1,000 in Bucharest and $5,000 in Rome, plus prostitution profits generated along the way. The beauty of the trade, as one investigator puts it, lies in the fact that the victims can be sold and resold, producing income almost indefinitely. "It's better than mutual funds," quips the official. The iom figures the worldwide annual turnover from sex industry trafficking ranges from $6 billion to $12 billion...
...stripped of various coatings so it can be sent to monitor makers that will re-form the rubble into new displays. MBA Polymers in Richmond, Calif., feeds whole keyboards and joysticks into its machines. The metals get siphoned off, then the plastic is melted into tiny pellets, which are resold for use in industrial flooring, auto parts and office supplies...
...kind of privatization that gives sell-offs a bad name. Part of the bank was privatized by the voucher method. Although the state kept a majority stake, that share was subsequently diluted. In 1998 the state unloaded its remaining stake (36.29%) to Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, which resold its shares to a passive Dutch shareholder. At no point did the bank have a strategic investor to oversee its conduct. Depositors panicked last June and took out some $440 million in deposits in just three days. On June 16, two dozen members of the Czech antiterrorist police, wielding submachine guns...
...added 20% to his bottom line. And here's the best part: most of the outlaw commodes sold in Windsor are made in the U.S. by companies like Kohler and American Standard. The high-flush models can still be produced for export, so long as they are not resold in the U.S. And thanks to NAFTA, they are duty free...