Word: finalized
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...powers that be are taking away Jack Donaghy's microwave ovens. The cast of 30 Rock - a show about a fictional program on a very real TV network - will have to find a new target to make fun of, now that cable giant Comcast has finalized its bid on a majority stake in NBC Universal. If the plan gains final approval from government regulators, Comcast will have effectively bought a controlling 51% stake in the entertainment company from General Electric in a deal worth some $30 billion. As GE's vice president of East Coast television and microwave-oven-programming...
...trial modifications are (or aren't) being converted into permanent ones. Housing counselors report that while loan servicers have made progress in certain areas - phone-wait times that used to run up to an hour now might last only 15 minutes - there are still major bottlenecks in getting the final sign-off for a permanent modification. And borrowers are not without fault. Some 375,000 homeowners should be eligible for permanent modifications by the end of the year, according to the Treasury Department, but some 20% of them haven't provided any of the documentation necessary to complete the process...
...team have cultivated a personal brand that represents control, discipline and a hair-away-from-perfection. Allegations of numerous mistresses, Las Vegas romps, audio purportedly of his asking a woman to disengage the caller-ID feature from her phone so his wife wouldn't see it, plus a final, belated admission that "I have let my family down," do not gel well with this image...
Voter turnout for the election is expected to be low because of the unusual timing—the primary will be held next Monday, Dec. 8, and the final election will...
...argument among those who disagreed - most notably General David Petraeus and Vice President Joe Biden. He was undaunted by the military. Indeed, the greatest cause of delay was Obama's constant pressure on his commanders to justify every unit and find some way to speed the troops' arrival. The final deployment includes only three combat brigades and one training brigade - about 20,000 troops - augmented by 10,000 enablers: medics, mechanics, intelligence analysts, strategic-communications (that is, propaganda) experts.(See pictures from a photographer's personal journey through...