Word: collected
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...acknowledge the toxicity of the new mortgage, the broker then sells off this debt to investment banks, which collect mortgages in bulk, securitizing them as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). These CDOs are packages of mortgage-backed bonds, securitized from pieces of mortgages. As such, they can contain varying qualities of mortgages, despite tranches—or divisions of CDOs—that are intended to rank based on risk. Rating agencies are also to blame, because they facilitate the bank’s sale of securities to institutional investors. Many funds are restricted to buying only the highest quality securities...
...with Tootsie Rolls taped to the cards kids hand out. I have no problem with the holiday for 8-year-olds, now that it has shed its Darwinian savagery. Children are expected to bring a valentine for every classmate, unlike the days of our youth, when the teachers would collect the cards in a big red box and then call out names one by one, in a public accounting of exactly how many friends each child actually...
...pump is officially a flood-control project for poor Delta communities, but more than four-fifths of the economic benefits calculated by the Corps would go to flood-prone farmers who already collect gigantic subsidies to grow soybeans on marginal land. And the federal government is on the hook for the entire $220 million bill, because Mississippi Republican Senators Thad Cochran and Trent Lott slipped through a provision waiving local cost-sharing rules for the project...
...percent of the ISBNs for this semester’s courses. But Staff said that even the scanner has limitations—it cannot read ISBNs on used books because the used sticker covers up the original identification number, for instance. CrimsonReading is also using other methods to collect the numbers, including submissions from students and software written by UC representative Michael R. Ragalie ’09 that automatically scans course syllabi for ISBNs, according to Hadfield. CrimsonReading has expanded its operations in other ways as well. Its redesigned Web site features a new course shopping tool that includes...
...point of all these activities is to collect as many names as possible of potential supporters and then badger the prospects until they cast their ballots. Those Yale studies found that pleading doesn't become ineffective until after the third appeal. Washington University sophomore Charlie Bittner, 19, told the group he planned to take the personal approach even further. "I will lead groups every 30 minutes from a spot on campus to the polling place," he said. "People feel more comfortable if they're part of a group...