Word: fixes
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...opting for that higher rate, though, homeowners win only if rates rise. If rates remain stable or fall, the ARM is by far the better deal because the rate starts out low and automatically adjusts downward without the cost of refinancing. Beyond that, Greenspan said, fixed-rate borrowers pay an excessive premium. In high finance there is a quantifiable cost to fix a rate for 30 years. Home-owners pay about 1 percentage point on their loan rate for it, while mortgage lenders (which must hedge their rate risk) pay less than half of that. Over the past 10 years...
...aides say the week's events were carefully choreographed to underline Abashidze's authoritarianism and stir up voters in Saakashvili's favor. Saakashvili believes Abashidze's party will be wiped out at the polls, allowing the new legislature to curb Ajaria's autonomy. If Abashidze tries to fix the vote - as Shevardnadze did in November - Saakashvili's supporters in Ajaria will launch their own revolution of the roses. But even if the best-case scenario pans out in Ajaria, Saakashvili has two much more difficult nuts to crack - South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which have been resisting Tbilisi by force...
That’s madness. And one way to fix it is to level the playing field and make March meaningful for more than just two teams by instituting a conference tourney...
...communicate better with Cambridge’s varied religious organizations. Throughout this whole sordid ordeal, Father Woodruff has cited lack of communication as the UM’s most grievous offense. If the ACOI had been clearly denied admission to the UM, then Woodruff could have taken steps to fix his church’s application. The United Ministries’ mission is to “honor the religious freedom, human dignity, conscience, personal spiritual welfare and the religious tradition of every person to whom they minister.” We eagerly await the day when they...
...over-zealous pursuit of illusory weapons in Iraq, and his under-zealous pursuit of a peaceful settlement in Israel, any plan he proposes for the Middle East is bound to be regarded suspiciously. The damage to our reputation wrought by the Iraq war will be hard to fix, but the president must make a credible effort to get Sharon and the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table. Until he does, the GME initiative will...