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Cosmetic surgery business sags as purse strings tighten
After years of steady growth, the multibillion-dollar industry has hit a rough patch. Consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 5, 2008
It used to be a high point of Goldy Anthony’s life. Every six weeks or so, as a kind of personal [...]

At Corra we started running background checks for singles and daters because a fair amount of our female friends insisted we do so. For their protection.
Most of these women were successful women from their mid-thirties to their early fifties. They have money, status and plenty of clout. In business, they [...]