Word: homely
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...been much discussed since then. Earlier this month, researchers presented work at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, in Chicago, suggesting that H. floresiensis may have left Africa a full million years earlier than any other hominids were thought to have ventured out from the home continent. (Read "The Riddle of the Hobbit...
...steward of what he calls “Harvard’s quantitative liberal arts degree,” Brenner has overseen significant growth in a program home to a diverse body of undergraduates...
...There is no denying that previous administrations helped to create the conditions from which our current crisis stems, but a closer inspection suggests that Democrats deserve the most blame. Both the Bush and Clinton administrations (but especially Clinton’s) recklessly pushed to expand home ownership, fuelling the bubble in housing prices and its collapse. Former President Bush’s failure to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permitted the crisis in subprime mortgages to build, though congressional Democrats bear the lion’s share of blame for their obstructionism: They opposed a Bush administration proposal...
...Economists of all political stripes agree that the recession grew largely from certain issues: An unsustainable boom in home prices—propped up in part by daredevil lending—led to a rapid depreciation in home values. When transmitted through securitization, this loss of wealth resulted in a crisis of confidence in credit markets and a downturn in economic activity...
...Bush’s actions on taxation, trade, health care, education, and climate more likely cushioned the economic collapse than contributed to it. The Bush administration, the Clinton administration and both Republican and Democratic Congresses all deserve blame for their failures in financial market regulation and shortsighted home ownership initiatives. To blame Bush’s entire domestic policy agenda for the economic crisis, however, mistakes correlation for causation in the worst...