Elizabeth McKenzie's The Portable Veblen (4th Estate), which has received awards attention in the US, is the story of a young woman with a hilariously difficult mother and a boyfriend who's neck deep in the military-industrial complex.
Just maybe, with this hot portable occupying prime real estate in Best Buy, more buyers will view Acer as a serious computer company rather than a list of competitive specs available at good price.
Some scholars train in new, higher-earning fields, while others enroll in college for the first time, or seek out more "portable" careers in real estate, healthcare, and education.
Besides being something that people buy when they already own everything else, art shares with gold and diamonds the desideratum (lacked by real estate) of being portable.
On the Tuesday morning, we wheeled Allyson into a portable building on an industrial estate, around the corner from the hotel, and she knocked back 25ml of the foulest-tasting stuff you ever put in your mouth.
It only makes sense that Nintendo would take a hint and offer more screen real estate on their portable gaming devices.
The IRS's statistics also don't contemplate an estate tax with a portable exclusion, which means that married couples can transfer the unused exemption amount between each other without using sophisticated trust planning.
"It saves me hours of time a week," said Tom Ryan, a Washington-area real estate agent who uses a portable unit in his Jeep Cherokee.
The reason is that the estate tax exemption is not portable in 2010.
In a place where real estate is impermanent, value lies in portable assets.
