Word: normalization
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...Housing prices cannot go to zero, so, at some point, the rate at which home values are dropping will slow. Resale rates may go up, but buying homes which have been in foreclosure for months is an incorporeal piece of information. If buyers start to purchase homes on the normal economic basis of being a transaction between private buyer and private seller then the market will have something to celebrate. (See pictures of renting a modernist house...
...Bank stock bulls rest much of their case on the fact the write-offs at financial firms are slowing and the Fed is putting enough money into the credit system to restart the normal cycle of borrowing and lending. That may well be true. Those pushing bank stocks as a great investment would also say that, even though a stock like Citigroup (C) has had a great run, it is down 90% from its 52-week high. That makes it a bargain...
...interview earlier this year, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said that she envisioned that January programs would either allow students to explore interests they could not during normal academic terms or help them build non-academic skills. Hammonds said the College aims to announce plans for the period by the end of the academic year. Yet a year after Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris and the UC first discussed possible J-Term classes during a UC meeting, the College has yet to decide which opportunities students will have next January...
...recap of an episode of Desperate Housewives, promising to finally “scratch the shiny surface [of suburbia].” This topic may seem trite at worst and overworked at best, but Boice determinedly takes a stab at originality in examining the suicide of a seemingly-normal 17-year-old boy, and the context around that event, in excruciating detail.Within the first five pages, Boice has already delivered something more gruesome than banal. Grayson Donald has hanged himself from a basketball hoop: “His lunch has already made its way through the intestine and colon...
...researchers found that every sample from a patient with ARVC had less plakoglobin and that in other types of heart disease plakoglobin was normal...