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...sales price if the buyer will accept a house with one or two unfinished rooms. Allstate S & L, taking over a tract of $45,000 homes from a bankrupt developer in Whittier, Calif., even gives a free Mustang to buyers who make a 20% down payment. Still, a few builders are thriving. With ample lines of mortgage credit, Long Island-based William J.L. itt expects a 20% increase in sales (to $89 million) and profits, has just announced plans to expand into the Chicago area...
...relatively well-heeled customers will have nothing to do with untaxed liquor: the amount of cash involved is far too little and there is too much uncertainty. The police, for whom it is the simplest of errands to run someone in for possession of untaxed liquor, refrain on payment of a staggering $8 per week for each patrolman...
...most states, payment is made only after disciplinary action has been taken against the guilty attorney. The clients' security fund, says Chairman Williams, is "a debt of honor and part of our responsibility to the public. Our success has been excellent. The public response and feeling of those who have been reimbursed has been very, very warm." Still, being lawyers, the men running the funds have hedged their bounty with "certain basic principles" in fine print. ''Negligent acts or conduct" by lawyers, for example, rate nothing from the funds and, cautiously adds the A.B.A. committee, "payment...
...documents regarding Vermeer's life are scarce, testifying mainly to his baptism in 1632, his financial straits, and the fact that when he died in 1675, at 43, he left his widow and eleven children a bread bill of 617 guilders, for which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars...
...Assuming the standard 10% deduction and an average state tax payment...