Word: trading
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Programs such as foreign sales corporations are a product of Congress's attempts to legislate economic behavior--attempts that generally fail, to the detriment of the Treasury. In 1971 legislators became alarmed at the growing trade deficit--imports that exceeded exports--and the threat to American jobs. So Congress came up with a program, the Domestic International Sales Corporation, that deferred corporate taxes on export income. The idea was to encourage companies to keep jobs here...
Haven't done all your Christmas Shopping yet? Fear not! On Friday the 11th Annual Christmas Festival opens at the World Trade Center. Go bask in the joy of the holiday season and find that perfect gift for everyone on your list at the 350 boutiques which line the walls of the World Trade Center. There are many unique gifts handmade by craftsmen as well as many interesting culinary offering such as chocolate covered cranberries. Friday, 12 to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., World Trade Center (South Station T-Stop...
...result was that thoughts on plans become "based on rumor." Power acknowledges that, "It's a trade-off that I think I need to work...
...conversion rate: 1 euro to $1.20) at a time when the value of the U.S. currency has been sliding. That could help the American economy, at least initially, by boosting its exports. But if the dollar falls too far, that would make it harder to fund the swelling U.S. trade deficit and could force the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher than it would otherwise. That, in turn, could slow U.S. economic growth...
...Palace isn't? The community's primary units of currency are scripts and props, the limitless rainbow of graphical snippets used to perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says Randy Farmer, co-founder...