Like many properties here, Burj Dubai was sold "off-plan" or before the building was completed.
The real estate market took a huge blow three years ago and many construction projects just stalled out, leaving people who had bought homes off-plan and pre-construction with nothing.
Meanwhile, 89% of off-rampers plan to resume their careers, but only 40% are able to find full-time employment.
The European Commission thinks this one-off plan could presage joint Eurobonds.
If your earnings are more modest, you may be able to use an off-the-shelf "defined contribution" plan from a mutual fund company, broker, bank or insurance company.
The Two Tunnels Group - a team of 11 cycling, walking and railway enthusiasts - first kicked off the plan to reopen the tunnels for public use seven years ago.
The Los Angeles public school system is backing off its plan to end so-called social promotion, whereby kids are sent to the next grade even though they are not qualified to be there.
Yet earlier this month the Interior Department released a new five-year plan that puts most of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits for oil drilling.
This plan - although far off - horrifies the Australian archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman.
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The business-software company adopted a shareholder-rights plan to fend off a proxy fight by hedge fund Elliot Associates LP.
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But even if a such a city-wide tech plan got off its feet, it would need to fight hard to beat the trend and not go to waste.
In the June poll only 10% of small businesses plan on new hiring, down from 14% in May, while 8% plan to lay-off employees, up from 7% in May.
Well-off Americans should be able to deduct the cost of the same quality health plan that middle-income families can deduct.
If it all works to plan, the spin-off should unlock substantial value.
On the Netflix company blog this weekend, Hastings apologized for his handling of the price hike and outlined a plan to split off the DVD-mailing business under a new brand, Qwikster.
Tuesday, Obama urged Congress to pass a short-term deal that puts off the cuts, allowing some breathing room for a long-term deficit reduction plan.
If Congress can agree via super-majority on a comprehensive, cohesive plan, then that would be added to the run-off referendum alongside the two primary winners.
Flat taxes, including the 9-9-9 plan, seem to put off far more voters than they attract.
The plan incorporates capabilities to utilize commercial off-the-shelf products such as an Apple iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S III.
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In a single three-month off-season in the summer of 2008 the whole plan changed with the purchase of the club by Sheikh Mansour.
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The mission's job is to monitor U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan that never got off the ground.
To combat the latest outbreak, officials and volunteers plan to kick off a new public-health campaign this Sunday, persuading residents to "do the 'mozzie' wipeout" by clearing out stagnant water in homes and public spaces.
To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).
Here's the plan -- the secret plan. (Laughter.) You guys, turn off your cameras. (Laughter.) Just kidding. (Laughter.) So from now until November we're going to need every single one -- look at this room!
However, many small business owners are focused on making their business successful on a day-to-day basis, and put off thinking about a plan in case the marriage fails.
An aborted plan by management to spin off its DVD-rentals-by-post business in order to focus on online streaming also backfired, as many customers balked at the resulting need for them to create two separate accounts.
Right on schedule with the whispers, T-Mobile lifted the veil off of its new price plan tier structure, Even More and Even More Plus, and from the looks of it all those leaks were pretty much spot-on.
So the question is whether the idea of RBS and Lloyds as the people's banks will take off - whether Mr Clegg can generate sufficient popular enthusiasm for the "bank-shares-for-all" plan such that the Conservative wing of the coalition decides to ignore the logistical complexities and embrace it.
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