Even though neither Karin nor Chris now hold jobs, they are still giving 10 percent of Karin's unemployment check to their church.

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If the FSA was happy to stand back from giving a formal opinion on whether the Co-op was the right buyer of the Lloyds branches, will its successor body, the PRA, still hold its peace now that questions have arisen about whether the Co-op should stay in banking?

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Now that his objectives are different, does that still hold true?

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But now that the FCC may get the right to hold another auction is it still going to approve the deal?

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If that point is 10 years from now, or if you are still pulling in an income, then staying defensive from a buy and hold perspective is the order of the day.

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Twenty years from now we may still be bemoaning the fact that even though women earn 57% of college degrees, hold 85% of the consumer purchasing purse, are 54% of voters and half the workplace, they're stuck at under one-fifth of congressional, corporate board, and top management seats.

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For now then, grandkids and parents would do well to take advantage of something the baby boomers still seem to hold dear -- balance.

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But, with an electoral commission still not ready to hold a poll, the elections were deferred first to December, and have now been put off again.

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