Critical to the approval by the Comptroller was a pledge that half the rooms would be used by its own employees, thus making the project a bit less like a property speculation and more like the routine addition of a facility.
We can't go back to the type of pay structure that incentivized wild speculation like we had before this economic collapse.
Rumors of a Palin series have been circulating for weeks, with early speculation that broadcasters like NBC may have interest.
Which will be a great annoyance to some who have been campaigning for just this tax as they would like it to reduce commodity speculation.
Football is a results business, but on TDD nothing gets you going like all the rumour and speculation, wondering just whether Robbie Keane will move back to Tottenham from Liverpool.
There has been speculation that companies like Apple have been reluctant to introduce video products for the living room because they don't want to have to pay TiVo royalties, or wind up being sued by TiVo if they don't.
The director Roger Donaldson and the veteran writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Fresnais have mixed these real-world events together with speculation and what feels like the party gossip of many decades.
Many are discussing how regulation can help avoid another bubble of speculation and stud-like risk assumption in the future, but the best protection may be right in front of us: gender-balanced teams at the top.
At the time, the experiment looked like the start of something big, and speculation about a Nobel prize was by no means fanciful.
Speculation has suggested that Flynn would like to team Brewster up with former Celtic defender Jackie McNamara, who is out of contract with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer.
We already caught sight of a slightly mysterious, 3G-equipped Lenovo netbook last month courtesy of the FCC, and it looks like Lenovo itself is now adding to the speculation, with a recently revealed user manual all but confirming an updated S10-2 netbook.
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We have some, but few, written accounts of these cultures before this time period, but earthworks like the great serpent mound have been sources of speculation for centuries.
There's also a call for the G20 this autumn to co-ordinate action in a bid to bring down inflationary pressures, which looks like a heavy hint that the oil price and speculation in other commodities should be constrained.
Despite some very heated speculation about the future of targeted cancer therapies like Avastin and ImClone 's (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) Erbitux, there are very real concerns that biotech medicines are expensive and may not be as widely used as investors hope.
It was Alan Greenspan, as chairman of the Federal Reserve, who decided that central banks like his should not try to dampen down the sort of speculation that leads to bubbles in the first place.
This might not seem a big deal, but it is the first time science has proved what was hitherto mere speculation: that the brain, when dreaming, behaves like the brain when awake.
JCPenney was up more than 10% midday, thanks to couple of key news items, most notably speculation that the company could transform itself into an REIT-like company.
Stanford seems like a lock for an at-large to the Fiesta Bowl, and speculation was that Michigan would receive an at-large bid to the Sugar.
Although EGS is truly the wild west of energy speculation, its outsized long-term potential is what has investors like Google most excited about companies like AltaRock.
Property prices have rocketed higher, and government measures designed to rein in speculation and price increases haven't had a big enough effect for people like Ms. Niu to benefit.
WSJ: In Shanghai, High Prices Keep Lid on Real-Estate Stimulus
Now there is some speculation that he wants to change that and that he's spoken to people like yourself about that.
And earlier this year, trivial matters like his decision to grow a beard and wear it on-screen was a matter for press speculation.
There has been some speculation that the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) could see interest from a company like NYSE Euronext or LSE, but the ICE is almost as big as NYSE Euronext, so there are significant hurdles there.
The speculation is driven by officials who some believe are sacrificing tiny so-called peripheral European economies like Greece, Ireland and Portugal, in an effort to stop the bond vigilantes before they get to a country that could really cause banking problems in Germany and France like Spain.
With notable exceptions like Wang Jianlin, big property developers in China have had a rough year as the government has moved to curb speculation.
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It's why speculation about Apple's next move is so rampant: we may not know what it will look like, but Apple users know it will run the Apple software they know and love.
Scientific speculation has led to the appearance of everything from airborne jellyfish drifting through alien skies to heavily armoured crab like creatures scuttling across deserts warmed by distant suns, on television and cinema screens.
It now issues guides to a dozen European countries, and while its annual ratings may not inspire quite the same feverish speculation in Pisa as they do in Paris, Michelin stars, wherever bestowed, shine in food circles like a well-glazed sweetmeat.
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