It’s good to note that “extraordinary demand dates” are usually excluded, says frequent travelerNasreen Stump. “If it’s graduation weekend, the Olympics or another busy time, the guarantee doesn’t apply.” Maintaining status at multiple loyalty programs increases your odds of finding a room...
If tomorrow L’Oreal buys it, chances are you won’t want to support it anymore. Or maybe you don’t like to give your money to corporations that engage in shady practices. I’ve heard several reports of small indie beauty brands that spilled all their manufacturing secrets to L’Oreal...
Airbnb Co-founder, Brian Chesky, said, “If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.”If you’re like Brian and you’ve already thought about a solution for a ...
Houses Editor I'm houses editor for Homes & Gardens online. I've been writing and editing features on interiors and gardens for nearly 30 years, starting out at Ideal Home magazine. I've also moved house quite a few times – totting up 10 homes in 12 years during a particularly nomadic...
If the price had collapsed further after "Silver Thursday," and that the margin demands grew, Bunker would not have been able to repay the loans. The brokerage houses that had lent heavily to them would have probably collapsed. That in itself would have started a seri...
Then he became the wind,blowing the roofs of houses.After a while,he ran up against something that would not move—a huge stone.“How great that stone is!’ he thought” I wish I could be a stone!” He became the stone.But as he stood there,he heard the sound of a hammer and ...
Our pension was in the quarter of the Pont de l’Alma, but not near to the river and its beauty. All that a skimping French pension could mean in mid-winter was ours. . . . I had never known the damp, penetrating chill of never-heated houses in winter. . . . Until May, we ...
from workhouses to hospitals. by the mid-1980s, when friston arrived, it was one of the last of the old asylums on the outskirts of england’s cities. friston was assigned a group of 32 chronic schizophrenic patients, the worst-off residents of littlemore, for whom t...
Kick the BucketThis is an expression meaning death. The phase originates from slaughter houses. When a cow was to be killed, a bucket was placed under him, while he was being positioned on a hoist. Sometimes, while adjusting the hoist, it made the animals legs jerk and he'd kick the ...
JIM QUINN (author of eight books on horse handicapping): “When Bob first became a regular at the track in the early ‘70s he had a long white beard and shoulder-length hair and was known as Bob the Painter--we all thought he painted houses. Bob didn’t hide the reality of his life...