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...contract for four more years (after which, if he's not sold, he becomes a free agent) at a weekly wage of $240,000. Real Madrid wants to pay $120 million (of which Ronaldo would keep $12 million, the rest going into the coffers of Manchester United) to sign him - and to persuade the player to make the deal, it will raise his salary to $400,000 a week. And the mutinous grumbling of at least one of his prospective Madrid teammates is a reminder of the trickle-down economics of soccer's wage inflation: it's a team game...
...important to be careful what you wish for. It can be unsettling. Even I still don't like seeing them when I'm not ready. But we are in charge. You should tell the other side that you want to be shown some sign of, for example, your grandmother. Tell her: "Let me see you. I'm not afraid." Assure the souls on the other side that you can handle a sign, that you're not afraid. And they will show it to you. It will happen when they want; you can't call them up on a dime...
...economic downturn. The most recent round of auto-industry cuts has walloped white collar engineers and researchers who call Oakland County home. Take a drive through the hardest-hit neighborhoods, and you'll see blocks on which one-third or more of the houses have a FOR SALE sign planted in their front yard. The mix of layoffs and a depressed real estate market has forced some highly trained workers to take jobs in other states and leave their families behind in unsold homes...
...only had one woman follow through and go through the considerable effort of donating oocytes [egg cells] for research. I would characterize the number of oocytes she donated as a handful. And the results we had from those very few initial experiments were encouraging, but there's no sign of additional donors in sight...
...corruption allegations, promising to resign in the event of an indictment. Some will see the fact that he has chosen to do so now, making clear that he will not be a candidate when his Kadima Party holds a primary to choose a new leader in September, as a sign that charges may be in the offing over the case of U.S. businessman Morris Talansky, who has admitted to giving Olmert large undeclared donations...