Word: decking
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...watched the co-ed competition from the deck of the MIT Sailing Pavilion. Joining me were a fair number of parents and siblings, easily identified by the team-specific fleeces and hats they were wearing...
...slowed in August, according to Case-Shiller, and in September, existing home sales rose 6% nationally. That means buyers are finally being lured to the market by low prices. In Los Angeles, and even in Miami, there is evidence that the housing market is lifting its head off the deck, even as foreclosures continue to pile up and prices edge downward. Some banks are grudgingly agreeing to short sales--that is, selling below the mortgage amount--and doing some workouts. For owners, buyers and policymakers, such signs of a recovery raise a big question: Will a recession that is gaining...
...usual, he's been up since dawn, fishing for a living off the coast of Kaikoura, a town in the north-east corner of the South Island. Blast, it shouldn't be this cold in October. And seagulls keep pecking at the crate-loads of hoki stacked on the deck of his boat. He's also been let down by a helper who's scampered before the day's work is done. Which gets him started on how, as he sees it, the government favors certain types of people. "Basically, people who haven't got a lot," he says...
...Angeles (and even in Miami), there is evidence that the housing market is lifting its head off the deck, even as foreclosures continue to pile up and prices edge downward. Properties are at least moving again there, many at 30% to 40% off even last year's lowered prices. "In Los Angeles, one year ago, the median home price was $582,450; this September, it was $376,790," says Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of Realtors. That may sound awful, particularly if you're the seller, but it may represent a clearance level - i.e., prices...
...young boatman who grew up in the household of an aristocratic Frenchman; Neel, a fading maharajah—but by the end of this novel they have only just come together onboard the real ship. The volume’s closing image is of Deeti and Zachary on the deck of the Ibis, the first physical meeting of the two, but one that Deeti has foreseen.In its plot and construction, the novel encompasses a great deal. The spin and swirl of an era of infinite possibilities and insufficient reason come through, as do the twin intoxicants of opium and love...