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...road this past weekend to influence the fortunes of two 27-year veterans of Congress, who simultaneously entered the House in 1983 and the Senate in 1987 and who are now facing the toughest races of their careers. Palin spent Friday and Saturday morning in Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz., to help save the job of John McCain, the man who put her on the political and cultural map when he added her to the Republican ticket in 2008. On Saturday afternoon, she touched down in the outskirts of Searchlight, Nev., birthplace and residence of the Democrats' embattled Senate majority leader...
...epicenter of the boom and bust, prices have bottomed in many of its markets, especially for entry-level buyers. "Whenever a foreclosed property comes onto the market [in California], usually there are 10 people ready to jump on it," says Yun. The weakest markets include Florida, Las Vegas and Phoenix, which saw the largest pricing gains in the bubble years, as well as Michigan and Ohio, where job losses have been...
...While many analysts believe the market has stabilized, they emphasize that housing has a deep hole to climb out of. Since the housing peak in July 2006, home prices have plunged 30% on average, with certain bubble markets such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and parts of Florida seeing prices plummet more than 60%. Losses from the housing meltdown totaled $7 trillion at the end of 2009, according...
Attaining All-American status was only the crowning jewel on the co-captain’s already-decorated college career. The Phoenix, Ariz. native has received the Sharon Beckman Award, given to Harvard’s most outstanding swimmer, for two consecutive seasons. In her main event—the 1,650 free—Clarke has posted top-30 finishes at the NCAA championships all four years. Although she is the first female Crimson swimmer to gain All-American status since 2006, Clarke is the first to specifically do so in the 1,650 in over 18 years...
Andrew Herzberg, along with his brother Kenneth, both former investment bankers, came up with the program after seeing sales grind to a halt on thousands of newly constructed and half-built single family homes and condos in markets such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and parts of Florida. The aim is to assist developers and homebuilders clear unsold inventory, which - at least theoretically - should then help to stabilize home prices industry-wide. (See the best business deals...