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Property taxes in Costa Rica are lower than in the U.S., capital gains are tax free, and the dollar's value against the local currency, the colon, has enjoyed a steady upward trajectory that keeps pace with the increase in the cost of living. On the other hand, sales tax is a steep 13%, and heavy import duties are levied on some assets, like cars. Complicating many financial transactions is the Costa Rican banking system: waiting for a check to clear requires extreme patience...
ENDURANCE TEST When it comes to naming their albums, musicians' imaginations are limited. Time, on the other hand, is elastic. Though all the following artists named their albums Forever, they exhibited vastly different degrees of staying power...
...well executed by director Martin Campbell (The Mark of Zorro). Thereafter, though, Vertical Limit consists mainly of variations on a theme. If your tolerance for seeing lots of people hanging by their fingertips from icy cliffs is high, you may enjoy the film. On the other hand, when its principals are not so engaged, they are talking through painfully obvious moral dilemmas stated with laughable earnestness in the overwrought script by Robert King and Terry Hayes...
...other hand, the remaining three (Rehnquist, Kennedy and O'Connor) have demonstrated a willingness to be swayed. And so as the Bush and Gore teams presented their oral arguments before the bench Monday morning, the lawyers were likely to be focusing their energies on those judges in particular...
David Boies went into the U.S. Supreme Court Monday looking to peel an O'Connor or a Kennedy off the 5-4 majority that put his client's dreams on hold over the weekend. But he may find his arguments for a hand count winning over a much larger crowd - and on different terms than he was hoping...