Word: macs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...1970s, a lot of very smart Wall Street types managed to create a shadow banking system to finance more aggressive, risky and profitable investments, including novel vehicles based on the bad home loans peddled mostly (although not exclusively) by nonbank mortgage firms. (The government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought into the high-risk innovations of the shadow banking system around 2005 by buying a bunch of now-toxic mortgage-backed securities...
With the beginning of summer, mats enter storage and Crimson singlets find their way to the back of closets, as the collegiate wrestling season draws to a close. Yet, far away from the bannered walls and bright lights of the MAC, the members of Harvard wrestling enjoy no such hiatus. After suffering unprecedented injuries in the ’07-’08 campaign that deflated a promising year, the Crimson has worked tirelessly, running, lifting, and adapting, to achieve its full potential...
...Whichever path the Crimson follows this season, all roads lead to the final dual meet against No. 4 Cornell, in which the MAC banners of past glory could very well bear witness to a new chapter in the tradition of Harvard wrestling...
...would have heeded your warning. But this was Commencement, and your audience was too busy thinking of all the drunken Facebook photos they would have to de-tag before moving to Manhattan. They were gone, President Faust, but at that moment you figured that by crippling Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG and WaMu you could save future Harvard students from pursuing careers they cared little about...
...help her mother care for her father, who has Parkinson's disease. Even with a paid internship, Makolin says, it's tough to pay for ever-pricier food on top of an increasingly expensive commute as well as her own housing and utilities bills. "My dollar box of mac and cheese isn't a dollar anymore," she says. Like many food bank patrons, Makolin says the food bank has enabled her to stay in school...