Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.

WSJ: Your E-Book Is Reading You

He assumed that he could deregulate 12% to 15% of the apartments a year, a laughable figure that embittered even those residents whom management's private detectives didn't try to evict. (Mr. Speyer's firm, tellingly, had made its name in commercial real estate, not residential.) Mr. Speyer had overestimated cash flow and the pool of would-be affluent renters, and had underestimated maintenance costs.

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But when prospective sellers, including German Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm, checked, they learned Shapiro had no operations, no cash reserves and a pool of private stock of unpersuasive value, says Bowthorpe.

FORBES: Corkscrewed

The top placing StarCraft II finishers from the MLG Winter Regional Online Qualifiers and the top eight finishers from the MLG Pro Circuit 2011 National Championships held in Providence last November, will advance to the MLG Winter Arena in New York City, February 24-26 where they will compete for Pool Play placement at the MLG Winter Championship competition and cash prizes.

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Operators, known as hawaladars, pool remittance cash with funds from their other businesses and deposit them into traditional bank accounts or dollar-denominated accounts in Dubai or other financial centers.

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Gillette's hobby is to visit pool halls solo in dangerous neighborhoods and, with no cash in his pocket, challenge desperados to big-dollar games.

FORBES: Making a Killing

Critics lodge a number of complaints, saying that these plans would increase future budget deficits, hurt the sales of annuities and the cash value of life insurance policies, lessen the attractiveness of tax-exempt bonds and wouldn't actually increase the pool of savings.

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