Staff members of the House and Senate tax-writing committees are busy putting together legislative drafts that may determine the fate of real estate's most prized tax benefits — first and second home-mortgage interest deductions, property tax write-offs, capital gains exclusions and others.
Gallinari, a 22-year-old sharpshooter, is the Knicks' most prized prospect, and he was Walsh's first draft pick as the Knicks' president.
Canada is the world's third-largest wheat exporter and the leading exporter of durum wheat, the variety most prized by pasta makers.
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The £250,000 Wolfson Prize, the second most lucrative prize for economics after the annual Nobel prize, went to economist Roger Bootle, from Capital Economics, who is now on the IEA's judging panel.
The children's finger paintings are the couple's second-most prized possessions after the ad exec's award for a digital campaign for Wet N' Tasty canned dog food, which helped revive a major brand that nearly went under following a salmonella scandal.
From its somewhat cloudy press statement, it seems that Whitbread may be thinking of moving sponsorship of the country's second most prestigious literary prize on to one of its subordinate brands.
In 1986, "Thérèse," his intimately-lit film about a novice and her passion for Jesus, moved audiences at Cannes, and won the Prix du jury, the festival's third most prestigious prize.
Lord Mandelson, who may have now pipped Harman to the prize of second most recognised figure in the Labour cabinet, is no real rival.
In the run-up to Christmas, Mr Hessel's call for a "peaceful insurrection" not only topped the French bestsellers list, it sold eight times more copies than the second most popular book, a Goncourt prize-winning novel by Michel Houellebecq.
