Word: righting
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...STRENGTH With interest rates rising, the case for adjustable-rate mortgages gets stronger. Nearly a third of the home-mortgage market is written in ARMs now, up from 11% a year ago. Is an ARM right for you? In general, the shorter the time you plan on staying put, the better the case for an ARM. They are commonly available in six-month and one-year varieties or hybrids that are fixed for one, three, five, seven and 10 years. The shorter the term, the lower the initial interest rate...
Actually, I have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft...
...much lampooned Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg didn't do too badly). But as a former prosecutor, Toobin reserves his greatest scorn for Kenneth Starr, whom he portrays as unqualified, unprincipled, politically biased and lacking in common sense. Toobin's thesis is that the real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That may be true, but the fuller explanation lies in Toobin's damning portrait of Starr. There was no need...
...result: misplaced orders, late deliveries and some unhappy customers. And much of the marketing millions spent after Nov. 1 probably drowned in the sea of other dotcom ads. "Many e-tailers spent way too much money way too late in the season," Weiner says. Toy seller KBkids.com did things right, launching its $43 million ad campaign at the time of the site's July debut. The payoff: traffic and sales soared...
...owner of the world's most admired beer is South African Breweries, which last October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...