Word: dicey
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pulling the trigger on a real estate deal hasn't felt this dicey in a decade. The inventory of unsold homes on the market is at its highest level since the last bust. New homes are selling at a slower pace, and prices have fallen. Buyers are walking away from signed deals (and their deposits) at twice last year's rate...
...free pictorial-instruction system I grew up with, yet its world has become a lot more complicated. I rushed right in, of course, quickly throwing together a basic three-wheel bot. So far, so good. But when I loaded the software and started adding sensors and claws, things got dicey. And when I started programming, things got downright horrific. After several hours of frustration, I began to discover the rudiments of how to use virtual blocks of instruction to get the robot to move, respond to a clap, back up when it hit a wall. I finally got my little...
...care of every squad except BC. Sailing in the event were junior skipper Matthew Knowles and junior crew Cassandra Niemi, freshman skipper Andrew Flynn and sophomore crew Alicia Harley, as well as freshman skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Ashley Nathanson. The round-robin event was characterized by unseasonably dicey conditions, with wind gusts topping 25 MPH. Vermont, Bowdoin, and Tufts finished in third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively. WOMEN’S JOSEPH DUBLIN TROPHY The No. 10 women’s squad saw the third of the three weekend host teams finish atop the final order when they...
...affiliations that the law requires. "The evidence collapses as you go back in time," says Pat Barker, an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada, who is working on a similar case. "The first 500 years is pretty solid, by 1,000 it's getting dicey, and by 10,000 most of that stuff you just...
...Brazilian troops, as the guarantor of security. But the U.N. force, which was deployed in June 2004, is assigned to defend Haiti's constitution, not to take up arms against criminals. "When they leave, I will leave too," says Jean-Buteau Sévère, 34, who returned to his dicey Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel Air only after the Brazilians set up an outpost there. The gangs and private armies are likely to collude in controlling the streets--and thus the votes--in the walkup to the election. And unless that situation is eliminated, few experts believe any kind...