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...Freecycle members interact by posting both offers and requests on an online. In the past, Martinez says she would typically see people post items when they were in the process of upgrading, offering, say, to give away a desktop computer if they were buying a laptop or an old sofa if they were getting a new one. But today, as consumer spending has plummeted, Martinez is seeing fewer offers to unload such big-ticket items. "What you can sense is that no one is buying anything new," she says. "They aren't upgrading, so there's nothing being passed down...
...NCUA) will tap a $41.5 billion pot of money approved by Congress in September to feed liquidity into corporate credit unions faced with mounting losses on securities tied to home loans and other lending. Corporate credit unions act as banks to retail credit unions, which are the institutions consumers interact with. In addition, the plan provides $2 billion for retail credit unions to cut interest rates on mortgages held by homeowners struggling to make payments. All of the funding is structured as loans and is due to be paid back. (See TIME's top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Scenes where the Peers and the fairies interact together are especially entertaining, as they combine personalities from two originally separate worlds together in dance and song. One particular scene in which the fairies, who are in love with the Peers, both lecture the men and beg them not to go, showcases the talents of all the actors in the show. The fairies featured the strongest and most compelling voices, especially Haile as Iolanthe, McLoughlin as the fairy queen, and Ward as Phyllis...
Luxuria's participation had already ensured record high ratings for the 10-week-long show. Interest centered not only on how a communist politician would interact with two-bit stars and showgirls, but curiosity about what Luxuria would look like without her makeup. (See pictures of Milan's 2008 fashion week...
...inapplicable subjects. But literature’s critics would do well to realize that literature is just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean but not how to use them, and these concepts without meaning gradually fill our heads like...