It's rather good value when you consider that, two weeks ago, the best five-year fix was 4.69 per cent from the Portman building society. The Woolwich deal has no extended redemption penalties, is available up to 95 per cent loan to value, and the arrangement fee is average.
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Portman says all the right things, but I have to admit that so far I don't see the action.
Portman, speaking after the meeting, said it was proving difficult to balance the demands of many different countries. There are 148 members of the World Trade Organization, which reaches decisions through consensus. Without having all the pieces of the puzzle together, ... it is difficult to agree on one piece.
Director Portman will be inheriting the most dire long-term fiscal outlook we've ever had. The first baby boomers retire in 18 months, and the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid costs are set to explode. On top of that, he'll be dealing with a Congress that's absolutely addicted to runaway spending and pork.
The problem is that she does not have the profile that Portman does, and I am afraid that will be read abroad as a downgrading of the trade portfolio.
Ambassador Portman will take steps to help forge a consensus and to move the negotiations forward.
This does not bode well -- ha, ha, ha -- for Bush's trade agenda. What a tragedy. You don't take out a very effective player like Portman, who has good relations in Congress and on the international scene, when this whole agenda stands on the precipice, without knowing what that means.
As Ambassador Portman has noted, we continue to believe it is in the interest of the United States and Canada to reach a permanent, market-based negotiated solution and had been preparing for these talks with this goal very much in mind.
The line readings of Portman and Lloyd are often flat, or flat-out wrong.
We think it would have been difficult with Portman. Now it's close to impossible.
The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that she was born in Jerusalem.
I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.