Word: makeshifts
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...little is likely to be done inside the Beltway - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman Sheila Bair is still pushing for a homeowner-relief plan - local leaders are looking for makeshift solutions at the grass roots. One notion is to let cities use NSP money to leverage lenders into helping more borrowers avoid foreclosure. Since lender banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner...
...Shopkeeper A short walk from where Lu's daughter died, a temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses with gray, Styrofoam-lined aluminum walls and concrete floors. A school, bank, police station and local government headquarters are all packed into these oversized gray boxes...
...20th century, Americans were already saturated in a visual culture—a culture that enticed consumption on every street corner and was epitomized, interestingly enough, by the urban department store window. The department store window, as we know it today, was a modern innovation. While the makeshift window displays before the mid-1880s consisted of products casually strewn on top of boxes and crates, the department store windows of the 1920s experimented with novel techniques of color, glass, and light to amplify the allure of a product, ultimately trying to increase shoppers’ superfluous desires. Not only...
...Tuesday night, Barack Obama’s presidential victory brought much jubilation to the streets of Cambridge, with students, local residents, and other ecstatic revelers flooding Mass. Ave. and Mt. Auburn Street to hold makeshift parties upon hearing that the junior senator from Illinois had achieved a historic victory...
...speed-dating event hosted by the Radcliffe Union of Students last night, 32 undergraduates dated every other participant for as long as the kitchen timer allowed them to. But as soon as it chimed three minutes, students shifted down a seat to meet their next potential special someone across makeshift tables adorned with long-stemmed carnations...