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HOUSING. Everyone is worried about a bubble that could burst as interest rates rise, forcing millions with floating-rate mortgages to come up with more cash each month or sell. Yet when it comes to shopping right now, such troubles are a distant concern. Lucy Garrett, 55, an analyst for the Denver Public Schools Retirement System, has been in her house for 28 years and upon selling her deceased aunt's home this year realized how much equity she has built. So if she inadvertently busts her careful Christmas Club budget, she says, "I know it would be O.K. because...
...Elizabeth Garrett, professor of law and political science at the University of Southern California in LA, says it will be difficult for Schwarzenegger to get the Democrats to coooperate with him in the next year. "He is facing a very tough year. As a Republican governor with a Democratic legislature, it will be very hard to reach any compromise-they won't want to give him anything in a pre-election year. And voters aren't in a forgiving mood. "California has just spent $50m on a special election which got them nothing-everything was voted down," Garrett notes. "People...
...Vinson takes her three grandkids, ages 4 to 13, aloft regularly. From toddlerhood, they have loved it. "Years later," Vinson says, "my granddaughter would talk about flying right through clouds and how they were not solid but soft like smoke." The first time Gary Spoor, 48, took up Garrett, 4, the boy was transfixed. "Look, Grandpa," he called, "there's a train! Look--cows!" "It makes me feel 10 feet tall to bring that kind of joy to him," says the power-line superintendent from Kansas City...
...Garrett B. Nagle, who received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at A.U., says that many of the academic improvements had already begun under former President Richard E. Berendzen...
...It’s dangerous to part Harvard students from their Mexican food,” said Garrett D. Morgan...