Word: seconded
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...Homes Bravo to Justin Fox for his comments on tax relief for homeowners in his article "Get Homes off Welfare" [Oct. 12]. I don't know if it is politically feasible or desirable to remove all benefits, but how about dismantling tax benefits for owners of second homes? In many European countries speculators build tax-subsidized holiday homes, and then rent them out at exorbitant rates while receiving substantial tax relief on their mortgages. The result is to price local people out of the property market while losing agricultural land to so-called residential development, which may well stand empty...
...What They're Guaranteeing in Finland: Forget life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How about the right to high-speed Internet? On Oct. 14, Finland announced plans to ensure that its 5.3 million citizens have access to a 1-megabit-per-second broadband connection by July 2010 and a 100-megabit-per-second connection by 2015. Government officials say Finland is the first nation to make broadband access a legal right...
Even in his hometown of Chicago, Keith Huff was hardly a playwriting superstar. Though the author of about 50 plays, many of them produced at respected Second City theaters like Steppenwolf and Chicago Dramatists, he still needed a day job--editing for a medical website--to help support himself, his wife and their 8-year-old daughter. Yet now he's a Broadway hot ticket. True, he has a couple of big movie stars to thank--Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, who were somehow persuaded to star in his play A Steady Rain. But they're only helping affirm...
...last book came out five years ago), but his editor at W.W. Norton, Robert Weil, thinks this book is reaching beyond Crumb's base. One sign he's right is that it's not just selling in comic book stores. Bookscan reported sales in regular bookstores increased the second week. Amazon says most of its buyers are coming from the West Coast, which is not as surprising as the cautious promotion the book got on religious blogs. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...first station is located at Building Manager Miguel Casillas’ office, where wafer cookies, candy, and cookies abound. The second stop is at House Administrator JackieWheeler’s office, who helped to organize the event. Third station is at Mindy’s, where the pumpkin-flavored cookies are supposedly located. Fourth station is at the House Masters’, Sandra and Leigh...