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Motor homes, on the other hand, start at about $40,000 with basic home furnishings and rise majestically to $750,000. That's a little steep for a three-week holiday, but rolling palaces are rentable at $100 or so a day, the average charged by Cruise America, the country's largest rental outfit. Rented or purchased, RVs represent a way for families to keep travel, accommodation and food costs within a defined budget. More important, RVers can go where they want to, when they want to--no motels, no airports, no planning. And life on the road lends itself...
...which one could point out that surveys show that the percentage of smokers among college graduates is half that of people who didn't finish high school. In other words, reaching the President's goals on education would mean a steep reduction in the number of Americans who smoke, and would therefore be financially damaging to the states...
...book on Goya--but he's in no hurry to get to it. "The donkey," he says, "needs to graze a while after dragging such a load up such a hill." All of us who have worked with him on this issue know that the climb has been steep and hard. But we're sure you'll agree that the view from the top is splendid...
...cheap, at least don't pay top dollar. it's a commonsense strategy for any purchase, but one that remains difficult to stick with in the stock market. Even after steep declines in the past month, prices are staggeringly high. Consider that the companies that make up Standard & Poor's 500 sell for at least 30% more than what it would take to replace all their tangible assets, down to the last paper clip. That's a record premium...
...helps cover the annual deficit at its faculty club, which in past years has reached $700,000, and contributes toward the average $121,000 in compensation that Penn pays its professors, including a tuition-reimbursement program that lets professors send their children to Penn or anywhere else at a steep discount equivalent to half of Penn's annual tuition...