Word: bells
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...such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California - all areas with large populations of illegal aliens - but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that may have helped bring this situation about. Kathryn Bell, Frisco, Texas...
...Washington Worrying Words for the Market As they scramble to soothe panicked traders, George W. Bush and his financial team might consider a strategy of silence--at least during market hours. A look at their recent speeches suggests that saving their remarks for after the 4 p.m. closing bell might be a bit easier...
...such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California--all areas with large populations of illegal aliens--but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that may have helped bring this situation about. Kathryn Bell, FRISCO, TEXAS...
...insulate American studies from public opinion. According to ucas, the body that handles applications to British universities, the number of people wanting to major in the subject has plunged from 1,086 a decade ago to just 381 last year. "Students see us as apologists for America," says Ian Bell, a professor of American literature at Keele University, where enrollment in the American-studies department has halved since Bush took office. "They don't want to be branded by the degree." Interest has been so low at Lancaster University that administrators have decided to phase out their program...
...normalcy was the 3.5% loss in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, compared to the much smaller drop in the Dow and S&P. The indexes had been moving pretty much in tandem, but broke their lockstep on Tuesday on concerns about slower growth at Google, Intel's after-the-bell third-quarter earnings report, and how much companies will be investing in technology next year. Though a sharp drop, it was a hopeful sign that investors may have returned to caring about stocks' fundamentals and have left the sphere of fear that had been dominating the market's swings...