Though the 50 or so diners in the back room of the Palm's West 50th Street branch in Manhattan looked like any random sample of humanity, they represented far more — in fact, they were the key figures standing between the restaurant and the couple visiting from Phoenix who want a little pretheater dinner advice, or the weary businessman just hoping for a decent, expense-account steak.
To find the best of the tax-advantaged bunch, we ran screens in the Morningstar database, looking for funds with big tax cushions, decent expenses and above-average returns.
Because third-party developers can keep all the revenue they generate, the Agarwallas are currently pulling in about $25,000 a month from advertising, according to Jayant, resulting in a "decent profit" after expenses like hosting, labor and server costs.
The lure of decent money and expense-free living is hard to forget when you need to earn a dollar, and he had to swear off winter seismic on three separate occasions before it actually stuck.
"I get so caught up in my ways/ Sometimes I overlook the simple plains," runs the opening line of the Portland, Oregon art-rockers' fourth album, an obliquely fitting sentiment for a trio whose busy experimentalism previously came at the expense of decent songs.
And it has done so with no sales load and a decent (1.24%) annual expense ratio, meaning his investors get to keep more of the fund's bounty.
But for many, the relationship proves to be very hard, because academe can be a very difficult partner: demanding years of loyalty, devotion, and one-sided exclusivity but refusing to fork over such necessities of an equitable relationship as long-term commitment, honesty, and a decent share of household expenses.
They are the people who are given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands".
Benefit cuts are justified with the urban myth of the feckless and undeserving living in luxury at the expense of the decent and hard working.
A letter to the Telegraph says giving profit-making companies access to state funding will create a system in which institutions pursue short-term financial gains at the expense of a decent education.
Even if France complicate the equation in Cardiff, England will probably still require a 30-point win, a rose-tinted scenario at the best of times let alone at the expense of a decent Irish side on St Patrick's Day.
