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...remain higher than the national average - especially when you count sky-high property taxes and insurance premiums that can be as burdensome as mortgage payments - while its wages are lower. Fitch Ratings warned that when a big hurricane hits, Florida's insurance market "could effectively collapse." That won't jump-start a recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...needed.” The Crimson lost its third straight Ivy game, an 8-5 defeat against Cornell, before finally notching an Ivy win later that day. The success quickly spread, as Harvard proceeded to reel off nine more wins. The Crimson used the 10-game winning streak to jump-start a 17-5 record over its final 22 regular season games, an impressive stretch that included sweeps of Columbia, Penn, Holy Cross, and Yale. Harvard hit a collective .297, good enough for second in the Ivy League. Leading the way for the Crimson was freshman Ellen Macadam...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls in ILCS After Solid Ivy Campaign | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...with a third straight hit, a double to center that scored Murphy. Dartmouth, who had just two hits in the first five innings against sophomore and starting pitcher Dana Roberts, found its rhythm in the sixth. The Big Green used a leadoff walk followed by a double, to jump-start a four-hit, four-run inning.Harvard’s response to the Dartmouth surge was a one-run bottom half of the sixth that left the Crimson still trailing by a run with just one inning remaining. Harvard started its final inning with Emily Henderson reaching base thanks...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dartmouth Mounts Late Rallies For Sweep | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...addition to repairing an infrastructure in shambles, the Coalition also needed to jump-start the Saddam-era Iraqi economy...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building a Nation | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...central bank does not act quickly enough - and deteriorating financial conditions create a self-perpetuating feedback loop with a collapsing economy - the bank may end up just "chasing the neutral rate down" without reaching the level needed to jump-start demand. Japan's experience in the 1990s provides a cautionary tale: even 0% rates failed to resuscitate the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed Fights Back | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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