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...like to play guitar, and I like to plunk away on the piano. But I wouldn't hold your breath...
...Industry analysts say decisions by several big-name tech companies to plunk down billions of dollars on deals in recent weeks is a sign that senior executives believe the economy has bottomed and that buying now is better than buying later. "It's clearly a sign of renewed optimism" in the market and sector, says Peter Bell, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm in Boston...
...have at least $1 million equity in their home as well as a minimum net worth of $2 million). Those prospective readers are so psyched about the wealth-management advice they get in their free bimonthly that they tell their rich but less-favorably-zip-coded friends, who then plunk down the $20 at a newsstand. "If there's six degrees of separation between all of us, there's about one degree of separation between high-net-worth individuals," says Williams. "We think the news will spread pretty fast...
...despite Gharbi's innocuous characterization, and La Vie en Rose's romantic name, the prostitutes who plunk down cash and collect their keys at the beginning of their shifts describe their work as tough, lonely and often sordid. Ivana, a 27-year-old Dutch woman, says she began working as a prostitute after spending two years in jail and finding no other employment when she got out. Now, she says, "I switch my mind to zero when I work." Irina, a petite Ukrainian, says she has made "a lot of money" after 10 years working in De Wallen and continues...
...cave is a gigantic challenge to managing the logistics of the pilgrimage - not only is it perched 4,000 meters (12,000 ft) above sea level where rain, snow and landslides are common, it is also plunk in the middle of the insurgency-ravaged Kashmir Valley. And with ever greater numbers of pilgrims coming in (so far this year, over 500,000 pilgrims have already visited) the government reasoned that more temporary shelters were required. And so on May 26 the ruling Congress-led government of Jammu and Kashmir decided to divert 100 acres of forest land to erect such...