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...might take even longer for true strength to be evident in the housing market. "Recent estimates suggest that it would take about 33 months to clear all troubled mortgages at the current pace of liquidations," wrote Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Hanson in a recent note. Alex Barron, founder and senior research analyst at Housing Research Center LLC, has similar worries: "We need to be concerned about the homes that are significantly underwater but haven't yet defaulted," he says. "It may take another two, three or four years before we're well on our way towards a real recovery...
Against more traditional man-to-man defenses, Harvard’s dynamic scorers might have a clear path to goal after beating their defensemen, but the Big Green’s zone defense is designed to clog up the space around the goal, making one-on-one skills less important than strong passing and fluid ball movement...
Most museum staffers agree that the new state-of-the-art space in Northwest has clear functional advantages over the aging facility it currently occupies: foremost, a new heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system that will keep temperatures and humidities stable throughout the year to protect sensitive specimens like skins and skeletons and to prevent insect infestations...
Then again, he might not have. Asking "What would Adam Smith say?" is a lot easier than conclusively answering it. It is pretty clear, though, that he wouldn't just shout, "Don't interfere with the invisible hand!" and leave it at that...
...huge fleets of hot new warplanes being built by - well, new perpetual bogeyman China or former perpetual bogeyman Russia. Rather, the haste is being driven by Pentagon concerns over looming shortages of F-16 and F-18 jet fighters. And what's causing those shortages? Gates made it clear that the current planes must be retired in order to save money so the military can pay for the F-35. "The Air Force, in order to be able to afford the modernization, is going to have to retire some older aircraft," he said. "That's just a fact of life...