Word: modeste
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...Administration have not made up their minds about what to do if the banking system suffers more stress or begins to collapse as it threatened to do late last year. The results from the bank "stress tests" showed that the capital needs of America's banks are modest, about $74 billion, compared to more pessimistic figures provided by the IMF and bank experts. Banks may have the option of asking the government to convert preferred shares owned by the taxpayer due to original TARP investments into common shares, or they can raise private capital. That could completely negate the need...
...small improvement in housing demand. The National Association of Realtors seemed to confirm his observations when it announced that the index for pending home sales went up in March. This data helped send the stock market higher as it stays true to form by rising on the most modest news...
...Home prices will not get better until the elements that made housing prices perform so well for almost ten years return. Those elements may not come back with the force that they had in 2003, 2004, and 2005, but they must make a modest recovery for housing to recover. People have to be able to believe that they have some meager job security. A bank has to tell them that it wants their business. And, they have to feel that they can, if only rarely, get a raise...
...collective fascination with one another’s failures. Suburban desperation is no new project for novelists and with his riskless and stilted prose, Amidon does little to build upon the motif. Tired and clunky language encumbers the novel, and thus, like the characters within, it never achieves its modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler is a man to look out for. Cutler has all the trappings of a villain—wealth, secrecy, and even a hairless cat. When...
...know the story. With the flurry of acceptance letters comes inspirational, vomit-inducing stories in local papers. You know, the ones extolling the admitted students' virtues (brainy, friendly, well-liked, and modest!), detailing the horrible, horrible dilemma of being accepted to multiple schools with various scholarship options (Harvard?! or Princeton?? or Stanford??? or a FULL RIDE TO [insert state school]?!?! OMG MY LIFE IS SO DIFFICULT!! FML!!), and of course, FlyBy's favorite—recounting highly storied anecdotes from their time as a precocious child budding with Ivy League potential ("Alfonso was always the first to finish coloring...