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The decision to give the building over to Harvard translates into extensive resources for renovation. "The first thing that's going to happen is that the theater is going to be restored, then the rest of the building is going to be restored--plumbing, heating and wiring," Illingworth says. "It...
Certainly, the bull market has added greatly to Americans' wealth and stimulated extra spending. Greenspan cites long-term studies showing that of every $1 made in the market, 3[cents] to 4[cents] gets spent on restaurants, vacations, curtains and other things in the real economy. Multiplied over trillions of...
But on "20/20," Van de Velde denied any negligence in the matter, saying only that she might have been anxiety-ridden due to the impending deadline. Regardless, he said it would not make sense for him to murder her simply because she was angry with him. "I don't understand...
But the principle itself translates. At some imperceptible point in the middle of the movie, Jimmy Stewart's snooping shifts from being the forgivable voyeurism of a bored man waist-deep in plaster to the important surveillance of a concerned citizen. As soon as he and Grace Kelly convince themselves...
If Asia has begun to search for new paths back up the mountain to prosperity, much of Latin America is only in the foothills. No region offers a more sobering picture of how volatility translates into vulnerability than Latin America. In 1999 it was nature that buffeted the region--El...