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Given a certain rate of consumption (1 week = 1 case) and a certain price (1 case = $10-20), it is conceivable to spend over $1000 on beer during the course of a normal year. Figuring the average life span to be around 70 years, this adds up to a sum of money that could easily purchase a comfortable home or a couple of Porsches or three ashtrays for the Defense Department. So putting to use the skills I've learned from my alma mater, I have been doing some research to determine which brand of beer I will invest...
...vote, with three Independent councilors dissenting, the Council voted to sell the plot next to the Martin Luther King elementary school to the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation (RCCC) for a token sum. The effective donation of land will enable the community development organization to build five units of housing on the site for sale at belowmarket prices of $55,000 to $60,000 apiece, said Pablo Calderon, RCCC's executive director...
...feel confident we can sell a lot of tickets for this show and have our profits go to setting up a fund for future events and concerts so we wouldn't have to shell out this lump sum again," said council member Thomas D. Warren...
...Japanese sun is also rising over the U.S. construction industry. Kumagai Gumi, a major Japanese construction firm, started $700 million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury hotel in Chicago's Riverfront Park Development and a 525-room hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Aoki America Construction is building about 1,000 homes in Raleigh, N.C., in a joint venture with a local investor group...
...mind | for the boys is a larger education. Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...