Word: shelling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rivera, the owner of a title company, allegedly created a shell firm whose name (Rookery Park Estates PH) mirrored the real corporation that owned the townhomes, then acted as owner and seller of the townhomes when filing the loan applications - all without ever buying a unit. Louisma allegedly used his chiropractor business to falsify borrower names and incomes (making it seem they were his employees). The duo's accused associate, Michael Acosta, a Boca Raton property appraiser, allegedly filed paperwork listing the value of each townhome at $400,000, as Rivera put together a plan to buy them...
...artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy day. Our commanders told us to fire off as many rockets as we could." Mohammed was injured shortly before midnight by an Israeli artillery shell two minutes after he fired his ninth rocket under a glaring full moon...
...watch video on their phone, according to Nielsen Mobile, which is nearly 10 times the number that watch video on other cell phones. Three out of four iPhone users are men with above-average incomes, and iPhone users spend heavily on entertainment. More than a third of iPhone users shell out more than $100 on phone and data charges every month, as compared with just one-fifth of other cell-phone users...
Officials in Brussels and other European capitals appeared shell-shocked as they absorbed the news they had dreaded to hear on Friday the 13th: Irish voters had rejected the Lisbon Treaty aimed at updating the European Union's creaking institutions...
...optimist and pessimist feminists. Peter Beinart explains why Obama would be foolish to be baited into a trip to Iraq. Jackson Dykman creates a revelatory graphic map of Clinton's and Obama's results by county across the country. And we have terrific behind-the-scenes pictures from Callie Shell with Obama and Diana Walker with Clinton...