Word: barbering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mortgage mania has truly arrived, to the point where rate talk is all the buzz at dinner parties. Forget tech stocks - the barber now offers tips on how to get the best refinance deal. Homeowners check rate hot lines daily and are deluged by e-mail from mortgage firms. The quotes were disappointing last week, when procrastinators lamented a surge in the average 30-year fixed rate to 6.15% from 5.98%. But rates remain near 40-year lows. There is a real frenzy: a record $1.3 trillion of mortgages will be refinanced this year...
...facilities varies widely. There is no national standard for training required to become a forensic investigator, nor any uniform accreditation procedure for labs. About two-thirds of U.S. forensic labs subscribe to an accreditation system, but it's only voluntary. "When you get a haircut," says Fischer, "even your barber is licensed...
...goal just came off a breakdown, just a small breakdown [like the kind] that Yale kept scoring on,” said sophomore back Liza Barber...
...black eye Milen Veltchev was sporting last week was not, he insists, the result of a run-in with a disgruntled taxpayer. Sure, Veltchev has had some awkward encounters during his 15 months as Bulgaria's Finance Minister. There was the time his barber, after haranguing him about a licensing-rate hike, left him sitting in the chair with his thick black hair dripping wet while the barber went next door to fetch his daughter, also a hairdresser, who gave Veltchev another earful. As one of the most recognizable figures in government and the architect of a series of unpopular...
They include the head designer of the Jaguar S-Type and Skip Barber, a famous Formula One racer and teacher of Nascar stars like Jeff Gordon, according to Sully...