Word: mets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...well do you think HAMP is working overall? The interim goal of having half a million homeowners in trial modifications has been met. That's a good thing. Unfortunately, for the next couple of waves of foreclosures, the program really isn't optimized to be terribly successful at preventing foreclosures. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...their pain as well as their day-to-day roles - are worth. Appointed 25 years ago to distribute about $200 million to Vietnam vets poisoned by the herbicide Agent Orange, he has become the Solomon of settlement. As head of the 9/11 fund, he held town-hall meetings and met one on one with countless grieving relatives to explain his bottom line on the lost years of mothers and fathers and daughters and sons. "He recognized the astounding amount of sensitivity of the assignment," says former Senator Charles Hagel, who supported Feinberg for the position. "By all the different assessments...
...next day, I met a friend at a bar to watch a Yankees playoff game. When I went to order a beer, I remembered my week of frugality and told the waitress I couldn't have one because of its fixed price. So she gave it to me at the happy-hour price. This was the kind of sale I could handle. You just mumble, "Can you do a little better?" instead of mailing in receipts and filling your key ring with bar codes. Sale mavens are people who like rules and finding loopholes and outsmarting systems, whereas...
...plan, and it will be many weeks' worth of amendments before it is known if Democrats have the votes to pass it. Even if it fails, says Senator Nelson, Schumer will have no problem adapting to the political reality. "Chuck is the most pragmatic man I've ever met," Nelson says with a laugh. Yet it's clear that Schumer is a long way off from calling his public option a lost cause just...
...exactly 30 people who participated, about 40 percent were CSA members and 60 percent were not. Based on information gathered from the 15 guys FlyBy met, we compiled some additional (completely anecdotal) statistics...