Word: hadn
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...since the market for private mortgage-backed securities collapsed last summer. They've been able to keep financing mortgages because of the widespread belief that if they faltered, the government would step in to make buyers of their mortgage securities whole. If Paulson and the Fed hadn't stepped in when Fannie and Freddie faltered in early June, the companies might have stopped buying loans and the housing market might have stopped functioning...
...France's bastion of high culture ever since Charles V set up his library there in about 1360. Loyrette, 56, says his goal is not to be controversial just for the sake of it. But, he insists: "In a house like this you need to open the windows. We hadn't aired for a long time...
...when it had to retire the pseudo-presidential seal it had trotted out a few days earlier. The seal - complete with a Latin phrase for "Yes, we can" replacing "E Pluribus Unum" - was such a head-slapping example of gratuitous hubris that you had to wonder whether the opposition hadn't activated a mole inside the Obama campaign. It was an invitation to ridicule that Republicans happily accepted...
...saying that the reason pregnancies at his school quadrupled this year was that a group of sophomore girls "made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together," the story made headlines from here to Australia--but no one could agree about what it meant. If only Massachusetts hadn't rejected federal funds for abstinence-only education, lamented Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. If only the school health clinic had been allowed to dispense birth control pills, countered its medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, who resigned over the contraception ban. If only No Child Left Behind hadn...
...ruling Sandinistas, however, are having none of it. Earlier this month, the government cancelled the electoral status of the MRS, charging that it hadn't complied with all the technical requirements to register for upcoming municipal elections. The MRS claims the decision was a political move to eliminate challenges to Ortega. Excluded from the polls, the dissident Sandinistas have taken their challenge to the streets - Ortega's traditional territory - and challenge him for the historical memory and mystica of the Sandinista revolution...