Word: affordably
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...early evening in Grand Tower, Ill., and Josh Franklin, 23, was standing outside his aunt's double-wide trailer. He'd like to move away from this community of 585 people to Carbondale, a college town about half an hour's drive to the north. But he can't afford to. Grand Tower isn't much of anyplace anymore. Its last restaurant closed shortly after the great flood of 1993. There isn't a bookstore. Don't even ask about wi-fi access. "If we get a major flood," he says, "it's all over. A lot of small towns...
...their mortgages and revenge against the bankers who saddled them with too much debt ("Give the lenders back their own headaches"), there are plenty of people eager to hear more. For $695, the Walk Away Plan promises to extract homeowners from the agony of mortgages they can no longer afford or from houses now worth far less than the amount they owe. A similarly named outfit called You Walk Away croons on its website, "Before you know it, you will have this behind you and a fresh start!" Walking away is a popular phrase these days among real estate pros...
...third of his clients from losing their homes. (It probably doesn't hurt that he has an employee whose main job is sitting on hold all day with lenders.) The other two-thirds are a testament to the fact that many people took out loans they couldn't afford in the first place and that banks are up for hearing a good case--but not rolling over...
...French state is close to scraping the barrel on finance, so cuts have got to be made. Policy and money go hand in hand," he says. In other words, if France is dropping its much-vaunted posture of independence on defense, it is - at least partly - because it cannot afford it anymore...
...billed as a crunch vote, one that the government couldn't afford to lose without fatally undermining the already rickety authority of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Labour Party loyalists, keen to prevent a rebellion, pumped out that urgent message to persuade all their colleagues in Parliament to back an extension of the period terror suspects can be held without charge from 28 days to 42. The government scraped through with a victory so narrow that the larger questions over Brown's leadership have hardly been put to rest...