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...different kind of credit contraction, a cyclical one. In the gaga '80s, lenders used practically every debt instrument imaginable. Junk bonds were issued in an almost endless variety of complex forms. The consumer got into the act as well. Home-equity loans and lines of credit, which are basically latter-day relatives of the second mortgages that led to so many foreclosures in the 1930s, rose from $20 billion in 1985 to $75 billion in 1988. At the same time, creditors lengthened maturities. The average auto loan is now payable over 48 months, up from 36 in 1982. Says James...
...eyes light up often. Like a latter-day Joshua, Blades is dedicated to breaking down the walls of ignorance and intolerance on both sides of the north-south border. He is a cross-cultural crusader, iconoclast and self- appointed conscience of the hemisphere who is determined to fight for truth, justice and the Pan-American way, even if it means sacrificing some of his own chances for commercial success. "I will never be a superstar," says Blades. "My role is to be different, to do what others won't do, and, as a result, my fortunes will always fluctuate...
...19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before he composed the soaring sentences of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln began his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation with this hackneyed conceit: "The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies...
...trip laden with symbolism, Gorbachev visited neighboring Finland, a dexterous nation that has maintained friendly relations with Moscow while retaining political and economic independence. "Finlandization" used to be derided as a form of latter-day appeasement that might infect Western Europe; now it is considered a model for the relationship that Poland or Hungary could achieve...
Griffin is also an active member of the Cambridge Latter-Day Saints Student Association. And after his freshman year, Griffin went on a mission and spent two years in Germany working for the Mormon Church and doing community service...