That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.
She gave up the well paid "boring" job in her hometown of Berkeley, California, for a full-time job with The Idea Village.
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The question is, can it also learn to do the boring stuff well?
Boring and powerful?? Well, this is simply a savings account that is ideally connected to your checking account.
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Technology stocks have been hibernating while the usually boring utilities sector has been, well, fired up.
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Don't think this means boring though - the characters are well-observed and the pace is still fast enough to keep the most mentally sluggish interested!
Chevron began drilling this ultradeep well over a year ago, with the objective of boring down to big sub-salt prospects 29, 000 feet beneath the surface.
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The mouse could have been a little weightier, and looks a little chinsey and boring against the benchmark TiVo remote, but it did its job well enough.
Save for the Old Testament look he tried on in "Evan Almighty, " he's maintained the same boring businessman haircut for as long as he's been in the public eye (and well before that, I'll bet).
It is possible that the price of bonds of the better telecoms firms, such as Telewest and Nextel, could double in the next two years even though they pay yields well in excess of 20%, a gain usually associated only with the best years of venture capital, not boring old bonds.
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