Toll Brothers ( TOL - news - people ), a builder of luxury homes in the U.S., reported a 27% drop in new home contracts, which fell to 558 units.

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Sheikh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, 59, is one such top scholar and works from a Toll Brothers (nyse: TOL - news - people ) mansion in the suburbs of Washington, D.

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Some of that strength is attributable to a resurgence in home builders like NVR (nyse: NVR - news - people ), Centex (nyse: CTX - news - people ) and Toll Brothers (nyse: TOL - news - people ), all of which the fund owns.

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Rateliff maintains that Sauron first appears in the Tolkien legendarium as Sauron the Necromancer in the poem, The Lay of Leithian, and after the destruction of the tower at Tol Sirion, the Necromancer fled to Taur-na-Fuin, which he thought to be Mirkwood.

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Toll Brothers (TOL) said in November that it had agreed to acquire Seattle-based CamWest Development.

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