Word: holdup
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...didn’t see anything,” she said. “It wasn’t a holdup. It was quietly done...
...daily l'Equipe, a reference to the notorious hand punch Argentine striker Diego Maradona admitted he'd used to score the winning goal over England in a 1986 World Cup quarterfinal match. "Les Bleus: Hands Up," echoed Libération in its coverage of what it called France's "holdup" of the Irish team that had utterly dominated Wednesday's game prior to Henry's pawing of the ball...
...compete with private insurers ... Now, if you look at the results, the 80% of all the various bills that are out there that people have agreed to reflect our - most of our ideas from the start of this process ... But the 20% that right now is still the holdup would have been a holdup if we had put forward a plan, hadn't put forward a plan, had left it to Congress, had written it ourselves - because it represents some long-standing ideological divisions in our Congress and, frankly, in our society ... We've put forward what I continue...
...there's more to the holdup than a bunch of big companies dragging their feet. As the GAO report points out, Treasury itself has taken its time - perhaps legitimately - in rolling out details of the program. Only in late April did servicers get guidance on how to handle second liens. In May came information about dealing with geographic areas where home prices continue to decline quickly. Other details, like the process for modifying loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration, continue to emerge. It seems that writing the fine print for a program meant to spend up to $50 billion...
...with some regional variation then we'll get it right. And I think that the committees are working on that. That's the kind of detail that we had anticipated working through in conference. If it turns out that Congress just can't get there and that's the holdup, then we'll give a very definitive idea of where we need...