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...shoes than mine, even though I'm the one who's handicapped for life," says Marcelle Berthoud, 61, who has spent three years in hospitals and rehab centers since a drunk driver hit her car head on. The driver - who failed to appear at his trial - saw his initial six-month suspended jail sentence lowered to three on appeal, and the 15-month driving prohibition lifted completely. "Judges figure the driver's guilty conscience is punishment enough, and that the damage to victims is already done," says Berthoud. "Just who is the law protecting...
Housing experts measure supply in months, with a six-month inventory considered normal. The national backlog reached 9.2 months in the 1990 recession but today stands at just 4.8 months. The upshot: even if demand slackens, prices can hold if sellers simply wait a normal length of time for the right buyer to surface. Increasingly, that buyer is a new American. Greenspan can get breathless describing "the incredible rise in immigration," which he says accounts for "a third of the rise in household formation" and "has been a major factor holding the price level of homes up." Today more than...
...Success so far results from keen pricing, meticulous attention to customer service, quirky advertising and the convenience of around-the-clock access. "Pricing's really the thing that keeps them in the game," says Matt Stamski, a senior analyst at Gomez, an Internet consultancy. Egg offers an interest-free, six-month introductory period on its credit card, and afterward a modest annual percentage rate (A.P.R.) of 13.9%. Smile gives current-account holders a credit-card rate of 9.9%; non-account holders pay 12.9%. High Street banks' credit-card A.P.R.s are as high as 24.9% on a standard card...
Prosecutors agreed to a six-month delay in the indictment proceedings of two former Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers who allegedly stole invaluable research materials from...
...chatted her way through 30 on-campus interviews and sent out resumes to 50 other companies. "I quickly realized I was not going to get my dream job, and would be lucky to get a job at all," she says. The New Orleans native left last week for a six-month internship in South America to help design oil facilities for TECNA-Ecuador...