Word: homely
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...young guy who apparently didn't want any trouble on his beat," Alfred says. "He let me go. And off in the distance you could faintly hear music, not very enjoyable. And then we went home." (See TIME's full Michael Jackson coverage...
...those loans froze in 2007. With unemployment rising and house prices still on the wane, the bank's impairment charges for soured loans tripled, to $1 billion in the first half of this year vs. the same period in 2008. Just as worrying: a shade under 4% of its home loans were more than three months in arrears, the company said Tuesday. (The average across Britain's banks is 2.4%.) Plans to split the bank into its "good" and "bad" halves - savers' deposits and new lending in the former, existing loans in the latter, as a prelude to reprivatization - still...
...rates of underwater borrowers have been found among those people with subprime, Alt-A and option-ARM loans. These loans, often sold to people with low 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...
Back in 1963 and 1964, when I was nine years old, my friends and I were all atwitter about the first X-Men comic book, the new G.I. Joe action figure, the forthcoming Star Trek series, and the Beatles. At home I wore blue jeans and20sneakers, unlike my father or any other grownup I knew, and for my birthday I wanted a set of Mattel walkie-talkies...
...almost half a century later, American adults are going to theaters to see new X-Men, G.I. Joe and Star Trek movies, Paul McCartney was the headliner at this year's Coachella music festival, and a new George Harrison album has just been released. At home I wear jeans and sneakers, like most other grownups, and for my birthday I got a new iPhone. Computers and GPS devices are what we have today instead of Etch A Sketches and Erector Sets and Morse-code telegraph kits. Adults of my parents' generation did not bicycle, roller-skate, or play army; adults...