Word: headful
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...Chase spokesman Tom Kelly. "We're not really equipped to be landlords." Lenders are sitting on nearly half a million repossessed houses nationwide, but getting rid of them quickly, even if that means taking a hit on price, seems to be the preferred response. A recent presentation by the head of Chase's retail-financial-services division showed that the company's servicing portfolio went from having about 52,000 repossessed homes in September 2008 to some 30,000 in September 2009. Over that period, the average price at which the firm sold houses from that stock dropped from...
...Wednesday night, and the band members of White Noise were practicing in the cramped room in Eliot basement. With just two days until the Battle of the Bands at the Queen’s Head, the band, which won three years ago when its members were freshmen, was determined to take over again...
...lead singer. They met as freshmen and dominated Battle of the Bands in 2006 with their song “Respect Lithuania”, which they sang again at the Battle of the Bands this year, in the dark, wood-paneled setting of the Queen’s Head...
...that I had the right equipment. I relished the moment when, curled up in a chair on the first floor reading room, engrossed in George Eliot, I slowly removed my glasses with a nonchalant sigh and rubbed by tired eyes, before carefully placing the glasses back on my head and returning to my book. That act wasn’t just for my own twisted self-satisfaction; it was a means of communicating to all the other four-eyed intellectuals in the library that I was one of them. It was a way of saying, “I know...
Karel Lannoo, head of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels, hopes that's true, but says a Tory win and an anti-E.U. drive in Britain is "the biggest source of concern and discussion within Europe today." Indeed, Lannoo says that the ambient buzz "may be what [Lellouche] found himself echoing, however undiplomatically." Given the likelihood of a Tory win, however, it may not be the last time Lellouche feels moved to address the issue - and next time, he may not be alone in doing...