Word: lowered
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...Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners' monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications permanent kicks off, there's a weightier question to ask: Can the government's $50 billion foreclosure-prevention initiative deal with the crisis as it now exists...
...poll, which was conducted in November of this year, showed Obama with a 58 percent approval rating on his overall job performance, but on individual issues such as health care, the economy, Iran, and Afghanistan, approval ratings were lower. The President saw approval ratings of 44 percent for both health care and the economy, and approval ratings of 42 and 41 percent for the government’s involvement in Iran and Afghanistan, respectively...
Last month, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said FAS will hire at a lower rate than current faculty attrition, reversing nearly a decade of extensive hiring that has seen the faculty grow by 20 percent...
Berlusconi's current point man is Nicolo Ghedini, a somber-faced, lanky 49-year-old criminal-defense attorney from the northern city of Padua, who has served in both the Italian Senate and the lower house of Parliament. Ghedini has continued to mount a grinding defense in the criminal cases, arguing in the Mills case that Berlusconi cannot be present in the Milan courtroom for the next several months because of time conflicts with his duties as Prime Minister. Ghedini has also spearheaded an increasingly aggressive legal strategy that has included several libel suits against opposition newspapers. He declared...
...most. Students from low-income backgrounds who go into corporate law after graduation will no longer be low-income students when they are paying back their loans. Monetary resources should be directed toward those who will actually have difficulty with loan repayment, and that will be students in lower-paying public sector jobs...