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...there's more to the holdup than a bunch of big companies dragging their feet. As the GAO report points out, Treasury itself has taken its time - perhaps legitimately - in rolling out details of the program. Only in late April did servicers get guidance on how to handle second liens. In May came information about dealing with geographic areas where home prices continue to decline quickly. Other details, like the process for modifying loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration, continue to emerge. It seems that writing the fine print for a program meant to spend up to $50 billion...
...Convicted, along with his brother, Charles, of stealing 80,000 rupees ($3,200) from a bank in Peshawar, Pakistan in 1991. The men were sentenced to have their right hands and left feet cut off, but the State Department later convinced the Pakistani Supreme Court to overturn the convictions...
Husky and hairy, with the flaming orange coloring of a bad dye job, the orangutan doesn't look like the most agile of primates. But in fact these great apes, native to the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, climb and swing nimbly through the canopy more than 100 feet in the air, their fleet-footed acrobatics allowing them to make their home in the treetops and access remote food sources, like the fruit at the very ends of branches. (Read "Kalimantan's Camp Orangutan...
...very interchangeable, a worker who thinks of downsizing as a challenge - a worker who thrives on this. This becomes the prototype, but in many ways that's quite removed from the daily lives of most American workers. Before this crazy crash of 2008, bankers always landed on their feet, almost always. Job insecurity isn't the same thing for the average American worker. They often experience downward mobility or don't land on their feet...
...area under Spain's jurisdiction. Gibraltar appealed the decision, decrying it as a breach of international law and warning that it threatened to upset plans for the upcoming Tripartite meeting (dialogues previously took place in Granada and London). "This is an additional banana skin thrown by Spain at the feet of the [negotiations] process," declared Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana. (Read "We Pledge Allegiance," a 2002 story on Gibraltar...