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...entice them to pay handsomely for these loans, but investors are unlikely to pay full price or even close to it. So in order to sell the loans banks will have to recognize losses that could run as high as $200 billion for the sector in general. "The gap between bank marks on these distressed [loans] and their economic value appears to be too wide to be bridged," says Morgan Stanley analyst Richard Berner of the government program...
last spring but took a gap year. [Flybyblog thinks gap year kids...
Still, BA sees a huge gap in the market. "It's for people who recognize that transatlantic travel is something you want to do in other than economy class," says Dale Moss, OpenSkies' effervescent managing director. Business-class flyers to Amsterdam and Paris pay as much as $8,000 round-trip on legacy carriers such as KLM and Northwest. For that money, you get to board first; then you wait for the other 200 passengers to crowd in after you. Asks Moss: "Would you rather be on an airplane that has two-by-two seating that takes, what, 15 minutes...
...book exist only as prose descriptions, devoid of any psychological complexity or, even, thought. This is not typically a genre convention of the mythic allegory, and it greatly hampers Rodoreda’s attempt at the creation of a satisfying fictional universe. Whether the novel’s emotional gap is a result of Tennent’s translation or Rodoreda original work, other aspects of the novel are simply inaccessible to readers outside the Catalan culture. Recurring images and motifs are, for the same reason, often mysterious. What is the significance of “wisteria?...
...response to a question about how they would work to diminish the city’s achievement gap, both Turk and Young—who is the superintendent of Newton Public School—said they believed holding all students to rigorous standards, regardless of racial and socioeconomic differences, would result in progress in all subgroups...