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...issue as far as rental housing is concerned. Our apartment company continues to rent at 95%. We continue to see same-store-sales increases from one year to the next. I don't think that the unsold inventory of houses will have any dramatic effect on the apartment-rental business. The cost of owning is helping the rental-housing business today, and it will continue to do so. I don't expect any significant competition from unsold houses...
...polls are to be believed, running with Clinton is something to which Democratic candidates had better resign themselves. And in that case, warns a purple-state Democrat, it's better to keep your misgivings to yourself. "No one wants to talk about her down-ticket effect for fear she'll win," the official says, "and she'll take...
...Brooklyn Museum Here are a wealth of items based on indigenous art from the Americas, as well as the art of Japan, China and Ancient Egypt. Prices go from $15 for a silver-effect Peruvian bird pin - modeled on a motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent...
...What's more, even the changes in the guidelines will have only a limited effect unless the sentencing commission makes them retroactive - an issue it is expected to discuss at a Nov. 13 meeting. As of now, the new guidelines will affect only new offenders. If the commission decides to go retro, the move could shorten the prison terms for some 19,500 inmates by an average of 27 months...
...Crack offenders have traditionally been treated more severely than those caught with powdered cocaine, a disparity that has weighed heavily on the minority community: last year 82% of crack offenders were black, while 72% of powder-cocaine offenders were white or Hispanic. The new federal sentencing guidelines, which took effect Nov. 1, are expected to drop the average prison term for crack offenders from a little over 10 years to less than nine...