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...houses on the market today are owned by sellers who are either behind on their mortgage or owe more than their house is worth. Banks have to approve deals in which the sale price is below the mortgage owed, often called short sales, and bankers are not typically eager to go for such sales because they result in losses for the lender. Realtors, even the ones who know how to work their contacts at banks, say it takes at least two months, and sometimes as much as six months, to hear back from a bank about whether they will approve...
...issues, he said. “We’re going to try to get these students together so that they’re not isolated in labs,” said Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “Students are eager to put things together beyond single perspectives.” The consortium—which will offer courses in energy consequences, policy, and technology next year—takes an interdisciplinary approach, reflecting the wide range of expertise, including economic and public policy, required to solve the energy and environmental...
...surrounding hanging chads and butterfly ballots, few people were watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or knew its veteran correspondent Stephen Colbert. Since then, however, the two comedians have come to be recognized by Time Magazine as among the most influential figures in American politics. Politicians have become eager to be special guests on their shows, indicating the perceived power these two men have over a contingent of relatively young, often disillusioned voters...
According to Paarlberg, Obama has toughened so as not to seem a “liberal Wilsonian reluctant to use military force,” while McCain has “softened” in order to not appear so eager to deploy American military power...
...Boston four years ago. When Obama stood before his party elders and declared that "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America," he was talking to a crowd of party faithful inflamed with hatred for George W. Bush and eager to fight every campaign as an all-out war on the Republican Party: crush them, flay them, eat their children. It was a first chance to see who were his potential friends and who would be his enemies...