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BOSTON (Reuters) - Stocks targeted by short sellers plummeted last year. The 10 most shorted stocks heading into 2011 dropped an average of 31 percent over the next 12 months. Some, like retailer Sears Holdings Corp., for-profit college company Corinthian Colleges Inc. and technology equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc., lost closer to 60 percent. So funds that specialize in shorting - selling borrowed shares and betting they will drop so they can be bought back at a lower price - must have made a killing, you might think.
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow has come through on his pledge to help schools in Joplin, Mo., replace musical instruments lost in the tornado that devastated the town last spring. The Joplin Globe reports that hundreds of band, choir and orchestra students looked on Thursday as Manilow delivered $300,000 worth of musical instruments for the high school and middle school.
... value of supplemental foods or food instruments so misused or diverted. (2) If FNS determines that... commodities; or food instruments, were lost as a result of thefts, embezzlements, or unexplain...
PHOENIX -- Cindy Vong is a tiny woman with a problem as big as the government that is causing it. She wants to provide a service that will enable customers "to brighten up their days." Having fish nibble your feet may not be your idea of fun, but lots of people around the world enjoy it, and so did some Arizonans until their bossy government butted in, in the service of a cartel. Herewith a story that illustrates how governments that will not mind their own business impede the flourishing of businesses. Vong, 47, left Vietnam in 1982 and after stops in Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, settled in San Francisco for 20 years, before coming here to open a nail salon with a difference. Her salon offered $30 fish therapy, wherein small fish from China nibble dead skin from people's ...
Cindy Vong is a tiny woman with a problem as big as the government that is causing it. She wants to provide a service that will enable customers "to brighten up their days." Having fish nibble your feet may not be your idea of fun, but lots of people around the world enjoy it, and so did some Arizonans until their bossy government butted in, in the service of a cartel. Herewith a story that illustrates how governments that will not mind their own business impede the flourishing of businesses. Vong, 47, opened a nail salon with a difference. Her salon offered $30 fish therapy, wherein small fish from China nibble dead skin from people's feet. Arizona's Board of Cosmetology decided the fish were performing pedicures, and because all pedicure instruments must be steri...
Instrumental project Members of the Charleston Metro Band and Local 136 of the American Federation of Musicians are collecting unused musical instruments to distribute to schoolchildren in New Orleans who lost instruments to Hurricane Katrina. Parents and students with unused but still playable band instruments are asked to contact Ralph Williams at 346-3431 or the AFM-136 at 561-3579. The instrument drive runs through mid-January.
Organizers want band instruments to replace those lost in storm By Bill Blankenship
Nearly two years ago the Southmoreland School Board meeting room was filled with members of the high school's marching band, who threatened to shelve their instruments if band director Dan Ebeling lost his job. Their stand didn't work out as they planned.
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