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...might have happened. I lived in a large dormitory room with two friends. I thought that it was something terrible and that we should be ready to meet the emergency. We packed our valises in case we needed to leave. We heard people coming closer, and we tried to lock our door. I don't know if we opened it or if they broke it, but they were Nazis dressed as civilians. They said, "Throw your bags against the windows." And they went down the hall and threw three typewriters against the windows, and then they came back and went...
...took out a fixed-rate mortgage as recently as January or caught one of the best deals in several generations when rates plunged last fall, you may be able to shave another half-point off your rate. And if you have an adjustable mortgage, now is the time to lock in a fixed rate before it rises...
...business, may agree to reset your rate for as little as a few hundred dollars in handling costs. With your current lender, you would avoid the risk of getting stuck in a paperwork jam at a new place, which might not approve your loan before the typical 60-day lock-in period expires...
Tragically, most developing nations fail to realize that these slums are not so much their biggest ailment, as their biggest opportunity. The key to solving global poverty is not encoded in complex econometrics and it does not fit the lock on Uncle Sam’s vault—it is found in the slums and rural farms of the developing world, where economists and policymakers fear to tread...
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