Indian Express (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Whereas VPF will give you 8.5% tax-free, BNB will earn you 8.41% after tax. So both options are equally good, but since you already have a substantial amount in VPF, one would suggest going in for BNB.
g. (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
One of the things most social media junkies do substantial amount of time is read their peers rant about world and give useful hints and ideas. Since there are too many of us out there, there’s a neat trick you can do: piggy back on best stories from someone else. Image by movimente via Flickr The way [...]
Farecastblog.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... season that was. Although higher fuel prices and reduced capacity meant that prices started out substantially higher this year, they headed downward along with the economy throughout the fall. Unlike other years, buying early turned out not to be such a good idea, as prices slid until early November. Can we learn anything for Christmas travel? As you can see above, Christmas fares also dropped...
Soccer By Ives (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... The ban has not only hurt the already tainted image of Peru, but it is also costing club teams a substantial amount of revenue. "For the moment, we’ve lost $500,000 which we would have earned through qualifying for the (Copa)Libertadores.” said Universitario general manager German Leguia. Even with the chaotic state that Peruvian soccer is currently in, the IPD has refused to negotiate...
US News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... says Kaiser President and CEO Drew Altman. “With rising deductibles, more and more people face a substantial amount out of pocket for their healthcare before their insurance fully kicks in.” About 18 percent of employees currently have deductibles of at least $1,000, up from 12 percent last year. And 25 percent of companies plan to increase employee contributions to health insurance...
ArchPundit (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... successful in thwarting this worthwhile proposal, the state retirement systems would have saved substantial amounts of money over the last five years.” The Trib covers it as well: The state could save $50 million to $80 million a year on administrative costs and management fees by merging the investment duties of five government employee retirement systems, according to the proposal....
Computer News, Tips, Tricks (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Having lots of tabs loaded in Firefox eats substantial amount of system resources and can make things pretty slow and unorganized, the guys at Visibo Limited seems to have developed a perfect solution for the problem, TooManyTabs 0.3.1 - the free Firefox add-on from Visibo allows users to save more then 50 tabs in multiple-rows as idle tabs, just above the real Firefox tabs in unloaded...
Later On (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... weekend’s story about McCaffrey and the earlier NYT story in April have caused NBC News to expend substantial amounts of time, effort and resources trying to manage the P.R. aspects of this story. But remarkably, this “news organization” has still not uttered a peep to its viewers about these stories; has not reported on any of the indisputably newsworthy events surrounding the Pentagon’s...
The Mahablog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
A substantial amount of money was just wiped out of one of my bank accounts through bogus charge on a debit card. The charge was made by HighBeam Research. I reached the company on the phone and was told the money was for an annual subscription fee. I said I was unaware I was a [...]
Uncommon Misconceptions (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... be recovered in the sales price. I just hope it cost the judge and his partner somewhere near that amount as well. It would be nice if they ended up paying a substantial amount for stealing their neighbor’s land.
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... from the United States that they’re requesting, it’s unlikely that they would be able to spend a substantial amount of it on international activities. Yet the European Union’s competition regulations would essentially prohibit the Swedish government from supporting its own auto industry, a sort of catch-22 that could leave the two brands in limbo. Frank Nilsson, a spokesman for Sweden’s...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
They forced their way behind the counter to the safe and got away with a substantial amount of cash, driving off in a car believed to be parked outside.
Planet Bods Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
So about two months ago, a substantial amount of my money ended up stuck in the British operation of a failed Icelandic bank, known in the UK as Icesave. Well after a bit of a wait - and nowhere near as long as most people originally expected - my cash has now been returned.
IOL (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
About 3 000 tons of South African perlemoen (abalone) were landed in Asian countries last year - although the local commercial perlemoen industry produced only 1 000 tons and the quota for wild perlemoen was a mere 125 tons.Close on two-thirds of the South African exported perlemoen was probably illegal.Some was exported from South Africa, but a substantial amount was exported from Mozambique...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... a series of alleged breaches of procurement rules in the Fás Corporate Affairs Division involving substantial amounts of money. Mr Craig was the director of the division during the period concerned.As an example of what he says is wrong with the report he cited its findings about a website, jobsireland.com, which he had a key role in creating. The website was set up using outside...
