Word: busting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presidential candidates are contemplating such a move. What is likely to be on the next Administration's agenda are measures to restrain Wall Street - which, by buying and repackaging hundreds of billions of dollars in dodgy home loans, played a key role in bringing on the housing bubble and bust...
...might think these seasons were a bust, but let me tell you what those records don’t tell...
...updates and other information. What's more, it's not the average consumer who would track down a criminal to get his TomTom or Mio back. But the fact that it could be tracked at all would serve as a powerful deterrent; it would also help authorities locate and bust larger-scale crime rings, which typically hawk stolen electronics in pawn shops, on street corners, and on websites like Craigslist and eBay. What's more, it would help authorities locate people in roadside emergencies or if they're reported missing, much like GM's OnStar service. "Two-way connectivity...
...sounds a little sleazy and desperate, it meshes perfectly with the sleazy and desperate era of the subprime-mortgage fiasco, credit crisis and housing bust. If the economy of the '70s is back, the show seems to say, then let's bring back the mores of the '70s! Throw a key party--this time with house keys...
With the U.S.'s boomiest burgs going bust, these shows already seem as dated as wall-to-wall shag carpeting. Watching a rerun of House Hunters shot two years ago is like opening a time capsule. The sellers are swaggering; home prices are rising by the minute; the buyers are under pressure to decide!, decide!, decide! before another house flies off the market. Who are these confident sellers and brokers, you wonder, and what prosperous, optimistic nation do they live...