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...permits for new homes were issued here, even as only 30,000 jobs were being added annually. "Now," Dhawan says, "it's catching up." The shrinking corps of real estate agents here are taking desperate measures, like offering two-bedroom condos for the price of a one-bedroom unit...
...named in order to protect her relationship with the University. “We’re not naive.” In February, HCL displaced 17 workers in the Widener serial services division to a Central Square facility currently occupied by HCL’s technical services unit as part of an effort to help reduce its budget for next year by $12 million. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Development's Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of "noncooperative" countries. That year Guatemala finally criminalized money laundering, setting prison sentences of up to 20 years and requiring banks and other financial intermediaries to report suspicious activity and implement "know your client" policies. The law created a special unit within the banking superintendence, which has the authority to obtain information related to any business transaction potentially involving laundering...
...cost of what are called "extreme weather and marine" satellite phones from one of the two premier global providers, Iridium and GlobalStar, is $1,200 per unit. The cost of calls per minute is $5. Total cost for phones comes to $60,000 based on each team of pirates having two phones, and all of these probably get replaced each year due to damage. Assuming 100 minutes a month per phone and the total cost of airtime...
...Last week, however, the p.r. team went on the attack. It came on the eve of ex-chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg's congressional testimony critical of the firm's current leaders and the bailout strategy. Reporters were given a document outlining Greenberg's role in creating a ruinous AIG unit and his 2005 ouster. A press release questioned why he should have "any credibility." Ashooh said the document was prepared internally, not by p.r. firms, and was intended to correct "misinformation" spread by Greenberg...