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...fortunately for us, it happened to her going into her junior year.”But to fully understand how she made her great leap forward, one must first look backwards. Hagner arrived in Cambridge in 2006 as a highly-touted recruit, and by no means was she a bust in her first two seasons.She started every game as a rookie, scoring once and turning in three assists. She made 15 appearances her sophomore season, starting eight, and matched her previous assist total.But there was still something missing. Here was a two-time high school All-American, named by Soccer...
...earful. Richard Parkus, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, said he thought two-thirds of all commercial real estate loans due in the next few years - hundreds of billions of dollars' worth - could go bust. Jeffrey DeBoer, president of trade group the Real Estate Roundtable, fretted that problems in the lending business could cost the nation thousands more construction and real estate jobs. Next up, Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York expressed worry that the country was headed for a lost decade of economic stagnation...
...contrast, Saudi Arabia's institutional memory of the boom and bust cycle served it well during what was the kingdom's third great oil boom of the past four decades. After the high prices of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia's economy went through a long-drawn-out slowdown as oil revenues plummeted for most of the 1980s. After a spike when Iraq invaded Kuwait, prices weakened again in the 1990s, even as Saudi struggled to pay off its (large) chunk of the bill for the first Gulf War. At the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, oil prices...
...this day and age, why do you still celebrate the 90th anniversary of the October revolution," asks Surjit Bhalla, a financial pundit and anchor of the show "Tough Talk" on NDTV, one of India's main cable news networks. "How many democratic parties in the world have a bust of Stalin in their headquarters...
...recession is 16 months and counting, developers are facing the same problems that individual homeowners began facing two years ago. With vacancies in malls and office buildings around the country on the rise, more and more developers will be unable to pay their mortgages. And as those loans go bust, so too will more and more of our nation's smaller banks...