Word: hitting
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...Piano Man" right now - takes a little more time and effort. You have to get on the Web, go to the iTunes Store, find the song you want, pay for it and download it - maybe deleting another song first, if your memory is full - all before you can hit play...
...cots in a specially quarantined cabin, waiting out a pandemic flu virus that is barnstorming its way across the globe. Camp Modin was not alone; so far this summer, at least 80 camps in 40 states, including a full quarter of Maine's residential summer camps, have reportedly been hit by the bug known worldwide as H1N1. U.S. health officials were struck by a trend they regarded as unusual and troubling: a flu outbreak in the middle of summer...
...credit scores or those stretching to afford a house, were largely peddled at the height of the boom and therefore often correspond to home prices that had nowhere to go but down. However, according to Deutsche Bank's projections, a second wave of upside borrowers is about to hit, and this time prime borrowers will account for the bulk. As of the end of March, the bank estimated that 16% of prime borrowers with conforming loans were underwater. By the end of March 2011, some 41% are projected to be. And about half of those are expected...
...good" news is that the worst of the problem is fairly concentrated geographically. Places where house prices have fallen the most have been hit the worst. That includes states that saw the wildest speculation and overbuilding - like California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada - and those that have been gutted the worst economically, such as Ohio and Michigan...
...portray Clinton's visit as a great victory. It will probably say the former President's trip showed that the Dear Leader brought Washington to its knees to beg for the release of the two journalists. In fact, it shows that the diplomatic reset button is about to be hit - yet again - in Pyongyang and in Washington. Clinton almost certainly bore a message that Washington wants to talk again, in some forum. And while the U.S. might not want to "buy the same horse" now, who knows what it might be in the diplomatic market for several months hence...