China's wine company, Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine, has signed an agreement with Chile's Bethia group to buy three vineyards in the South American country for over 50 million U.S. dollars. Kong Linghui suspended as Chinese women's table tennis coach Former Olympic champion Kong Linghui has bee...
For amounts over a dollar, an American will generally either drop denominations or give both dollars and cents, as in "two-twenty" or "two dollars and twenty cents" for $2.20. An American would not say "two dollars twenty." On the other hand, in BrE, "two pounds twenty" would be ...
Being in a city afforded inhabitants protection and financial opportunities, but these benefits were received only in exchange for givingloyalty to the kingof the city, who claimed to be appointed by the local deity.Kingsruled likeglorified gang leaders,usin...
. Ariely is the author of the three New York Times best sellers Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, as well as the books Dollars and Sense, Irrationally Yours – a collection of his popular The Wall Street Journal advice column “Ask ...
A Swiss/Italian Christmas Part II: Travel Bloopers Posted by theinternationallymindedamerican underUncategorized Leave a Comment Travelers often say that after a trip the good things are remembered, and the not so good things tend to fade into the mental background. I like to call these travel ...
Besides hosting the Marathon Monday event, Webster Bank has donated more the $100,000 dollars to support the mission of the Red Cross. They have also held employee team-building events helping our Boston Food Pantry, building food bags for distributions. Their unwavering support has helped Team ...
recession & currency crises, free sea trade lanes, developments in different parts of the world. The fact that China holds billions of dollar worth of US Treasury Bonds and more than a trillion dollars in reserves and huge trade surplus with US gives credence to the predictions that in the ...
“There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it - for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.” When she died, her company was worth over one million dollars (in 1919 currency), so she ...
1990: Washington uses tax dollars to launch TV Marti, to broadcast anti-Castro messages to Cuba. It is jammed in Cuba. June. The Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture in Miami is bombed by anti-Cuban terrorist for exhibiting work by artists living in Cuba. Orlando Bosch, convicted international...
“I get forty dollars a week plus bail money.” >>> For the rest of the poem as posted today on The Common, click here. On The Mysterious Romance of Murder: "Do yourself a favor and follow Lehman's lead on this idiosyncratic tour through the noir ethos in literature, poetry, music,...