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...baby sitter. Most of the denizens of this working-class town are searching to get or keep jobs most people would flee from - making the mortgage or feeding the kids is for them as great a quest as anything Frodo ever faced. That, and putting a down payment on a little emotional security. A congenial body in a motel-room bed can keep the chill away; a congenial heart may be too much to hope...
...Georgia is serious - and the legislature's resolution allows the issue to be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, which settles such disputes - Tennessee is very likely to demand payment for the land. The current value is more than $2 billion...
Still others, in a sign of the depth of distrust for developers of such suburban projects, suggested the fires were deliberately set in an effort to get some financial return, via an insurance payment, on the homes - none of which had sold since their opening last summer. Gutt, the FBI special agent, said authorities were not ruling out any possible motives, noting that the banner and other unspecified evidence recovered at the crime scene had been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. "I don't know where the facts will take the case," he said...
...After shooing workers into Big Labor’s arms, Obama will shame businesses with the Patriot Employer Act. It offers a one percent tax credit to companies, but under a heap of conditions, including a pension plan that matches five percent of worker contributions for every employee and payment of 60 percent of each worker’s healthcare premiums. Worst of all, businesses’ foreign divisions will have to pay the U.S. corporate tax rate, instead of their host countries’ rates. At 35 percent, our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the developed...
...will not be enough," says Riati, a 45-year-old woman sitting outside the 16-ft.-wide (5 m wide) cubicle where she lives with her husband and sister. Riati says she turned down Lapindo's offer of 40 million rupiah, or about $4,500 - with an initial payment of 8 million rupiah - because she says even the full amount is not enough for her to buy a new home. Teryana, the Lapindo vice president, says the company hopes the holdout villagers can be persuaded to accept the compensation scheme...