For good measure, the House bill also gets the ball rolling on tax increases on foreign-source corporate income.

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"It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball, " Renner said.

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"Foreign exchange has had a very negative effect on housing demand and will have an effect on house prices, " says Michael Ball, author of the RICS' annual survey.

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Secret Service dogs make routine runs on White House grounds throughout the day, every day, Ball said.

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The auction house said he left his collection to his partner David Ball, who has just moved to Morocco and could not take it with him.

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If it had been my call, I would have punted and told the guys in the Capital that the ball was in their court to get their fiscal house in order, because that is the main source of the problem.

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Try this analogy (thanks to Veritasium.com): if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 24 feet away, and the Sun would be like a house nearly two miles away.

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It has a 9, 700-square foot Tuscan-style house, equestrian facilities, a basketball court, a skeet-shooting range, a bocce ball court and an olive farm.

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This year's ball, the fourth such extravaganza, will be held on July 27, at the Monaco opera house.

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We mixed martinis by headlamp and ate three different just-add-water camping meals from AlpineAire and Mountain House on a white tablecloth, followed by ice cream made fresh in a contraption that looks like a hamster ball.

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