Word: almost
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...wants to buy a $300,000 house in Connecticut with $100,000 down. Have you tried getting a mortgage after going bankrupt? Never mind the circumstances or the size of your down payment; almost no bank will touch...
...British colony is not alone in suffering from what refugee workers call compassion fatigue. Over the past decade, the world's refugee population has ballooned from 4.6 million to almost 14.5 million. Many of the displaced have fled civil strife and hope to go home someday, like the 6 million Afghans living in camps in Pakistan and Iran. Some, like the Bulgarians of Turkish descent who are streaming into Turkey at the rate of more than 2,000 a day and the Rumanians of Hungarian origin who are seeking safety in Hungary, are too caught up in the frightened flight...
...conference did ratify a new policy of refusing to grant automatic refugee status to fresh arrivals. In Hong Kong alone, as a consequence, some 33,000 boat people will be invited to return to Viet Nam; if they fail to go voluntarily, they will almost certainly be forced to head home...
...Almost as astonishing as the basilica's size is the speed with which it went up: it took only three years, compared with more than 100 years for St. Peter's. The President, now 83, wanted the project to be completed before he died, so 1,500 well-organized workmen toiled around the clock to meet his expectations. The crew is currently putting on the final touches in preparation for a completion ceremony due to take place in September...
When Hoynes brought up former baseball offenders Leo Durocher and Denny McLain, who received swifter punishments for gambling violations "arguably less prolonged and offensive," he was ringing an alarm that has chilled baseball since 1920. The Chicago "Black Sox" threw the 1919 World Series and almost threw away the public's confidence in the integrity of the game. The club owners, acting in concert, created the commissioner's office for the explicit purpose of clearing out the gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler...