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...woman has got her man she folds away her advertising flags and takes down the billboards. Like any precious object that has been snapped up, she is no longer on the market and any further allure would only complicate matters. If only our buyers would appreciate this and not start looking around at other billboards when they realize that theirs no longer has any frills. After all, we really are doing it for them! Patricia McCandless, Burleigh Heads, Australia
...Little Big China Those caveats are important. But China's technocrats are well aware of the risks they are running. "They came into this [crisis period] with eyes wide open," says Barber, recognizing that loans being granted in a relatively weak economic climate could start to go bad in droves. The country's once shaky financial sector was cleaned up several years ago - in 2007, nonperforming loans amounted to just 3% of total bank assets - and vehicles set up to deal with China's last banking crisis still exist. In other words, Beijing thinks its financial system is strong enough...
...love Netflix, the online rental service that delivers movies and TV shows to your mailbox. Since its start in 1999, the company has sent more than 2 billion discs to its 10.6 million subscribers, who return them in the familiar red envelopes for more titles. (Think of Amazon.com but as a DVD-lending library instead of a bookstore.) Wall Street generally likes Netflix, whose Nasdaq stock price has more than doubled since last fall, and so does the public; the company has the No. 1 customer-satisfaction rating among online retailers. (Richard Corliss on how to improve the DVD giant...
...accountable but rather had to be self-sustaining through premiums and that had to compete with private insurers ... Now, if you look at the results, the 80% of all the various bills that are out there that people have agreed to reflect our - most of our ideas from the start of this process ... But the 20% that right now is still the holdup would have been a holdup if we had put forward a plan, hadn't put forward a plan, had left it to Congress, had written it ourselves - because it represents some long-standing ideological divisions...
Selling their old place still won't be easy. A smattering of opportunistic buyers - while a good start - doesn't unlock an entire market. Thanks to falling home prices, some 20% of mortgage holders nationwide owe more than their house is worth. Many of them are trapped, unable to move - to resettle in Boise, say, and buy the Judges' old house...