Although they made more money per transaction, attractive agents carried 17 fewer listings and made 11 fewer sales, on average, during the seven-year period.

WSJ: In Real Estate, Looks Can Sell

Although the kids never made much money, and their yearly IRA contributions were limited to the size of their earned income, the parents explained that, and told their children they would max out their contributions.

WSJ: It Pays to Stock Kids' IRAs

Meanwhile Goldman Sachs and Allianz Capital would love it to be known, from this example, that although they might have made more money if they had found an industrial buyer, they can be fairy godmothers to family firms who might be wary of using private equity.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Although the amount of money she and her husband made hadn't changed since the year before, they were beginning to stretch their budget.

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The full cost of creating the new capital has not been made public, although Mr Nazarbaev says that most of the money will come from foreign investors.

ECONOMIST: Welcome to the tomb��er, the capital

And although slavery itself was certainly profitable, it is less clear whether Aetna made money from insuring it.

ECONOMIST: Slavery and the law

"The history of this company is that although they've always had investment successes, any money they've made in anything has been poured down the drain, " says Eugene Fox, a principal at Greenwich, Conn.

FORBES: Death Grip

Whatever Mr Wilson was seeking to say about money in his book, it made him a rich man, although he would occasionally grumble that lawyers, accountants and the taxmen took a large slice of it.

ECONOMIST: Sloan Wilson, American novelist, died on May 25th, aged 83