Word: crediteer
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...credit, Bono never stops noodling with ways to make a connection. He slips into characters (a soldier in "White as Snow," a journalist in "Cedars of Lebanon"), scats like a young Beat poet and, in a moment he will probably regret, impersonates your office IT guy ("Restart and reboot yourself") on a ham-fisted attempt at life-coaching. Multiple times he asks, "Let me in the sound," as if looking for a place to hide...
...could, in retrospect, see the makings of the bust in all this. The shows depicted an economy that no longer made stuff but devised services. They also sold a credit-hooked country the idea of "masstige," or mass luxury. If you couldn't afford couture, you could at least splurge on trendy clothes...
...fact is, most of the Floridians seeking affordable housing still can't muster the means, credit history or job security to land a mortgage - even for a $100,000 fixer-upper - especially with lending requirements tightening in the wake of the subprime catastrophe. This is, after all, low-wage Florida: housing costs may be falling - in exorbitant South Florida, they've tumbled 45% since the median cost peaked at $375,000 two years ago - but take-home pay isn't rising. Unemployment, in fact, is at 8.1%, Florida's highest level in two decades...
...many of those condos and McMansions are now homes for little more than the ghosts of greed and stupidity. Federal Housing Administration loans, which have more lenient credit and down-payment requirements, can help some low-income buyers scoop up some of those units. "But most of those homes will never be available to the people we serve," insists Lloyd Boggio, a Miami developer and chairman of the Florida Coalition of Affordable Housing Providers. Some communities are using federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds to buy up foreclosed homes and convert them into rental units, but they say it's hardly...
...politician traveling in Africa for a charity event when the loss of your wallet leaves you stranded without cash or credit cards. Who you gonna call? Would you mass-e-mail voters back home begging for a quick loan? Hundreds of constituents of British Cabinet minister Jack Straw found this message waiting for them. "I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money and other valuable things were kept. I would like you to assist me with a soft loan urgently with the sum of $3,000 US Dollars to settle my hotel bills...