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...really. More than anything, these kids are more aggressive, and it's getting harder to take the aggression away from them. Their style today is, "Bet, bet, bet." You can't bluff against that; you have to sit back and play smart poker and let these guys bury themselves. For me, this means not playing as many pots but playing them aggressively when I do come in. I call it being "tight-aggressive...
...created when cities and states repair existing roads than when they build new ones. Highway-maintenance projects not only put more people to work more quickly than building new roads does but also keep costs down in the future. But according to one recent study by a nonprofit smart-growth advocacy group, roughly 31% of the state-certified first-round transportation funding in one $27 billion highway fund will go not to maintaining existing roads but to building new highways or adding lanes to old ones. Kentucky, where 38% of roads are in poor condition, is spending...
When the outlandish stock-market events of 2009 are tallied up, the initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong of Chinese herbal shampoo maker Bawang International will be a standout. Within 10 minutes of the June 22 opening of the subscription period for shares, one local brokerage, Bright Smart Securities, was swamped with the equivalent of $129 million in orders. In all, the shampoo company received more than $9 billion in orders from Hong Kong retail investors for an IPO that initially sought to raise just $215 million...
...both sectors this year, but if Congress lacks the stomach for comprehensive reforms - and these days it's looking like Kate Moss in the stomach department - a more modest effort to realign perverse incentives could take a serious bite out of both crises. (See pictures of Cleveland's smart approach to health care...
Twenty-one years ago, Frears, Hampton and Pfeiffer got together for another bedroom drama set in France. Dangerous Liaisons raised the former Grease 2 star from the ranks of the extremely pretty people who make movies into the category of highly respectable Oscar-nominated actress. It was a smart career move for a 30-year-old woman. Chéri is the smart move of a 51-year-old actress, and that is a radically different thing...