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...Angeles (and even in Miami), there is evidence that the housing market is lifting its head off the deck, even as foreclosures continue to pile up and prices edge downward. Properties are at least moving again there, many at 30% to 40% off even last year's lowered prices. "In Los Angeles, one year ago, the median home price was $582,450; this September, it was $376,790," says Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of Realtors. That may sound awful, particularly if you're the seller, but it may represent a clearance level - i.e., prices...
Shortly after the beginning of the challenge, Guest frantically searches the $1.50 per pound pile of used clothing at the Garment District (she was, after all, on deadline...
...much as a glance at my qualifications, tossed it in the shredder for sustainable recycling.So I set my sights lower: ever the ambitious young upstart, I accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back, but the response was invariably a flat rejection or, once, a confused call from a hardware store clerk who inexplicably assumed I came with Y chromosomes and could lift 200 lbs. I was so desperate at this point...
...take a breather, and after hitting the links, begin to hit the books. “We’re taking a couple weeks off to put in couple of extra hours into schoolwork,” Sheldon said. “It’s starting to pile up.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...option that raises political problems for Zardari - and also on economic reforms that might prove unpopular. There are clear and challenging downsides to any of the choices available to Pakistan's leadership right now. And playing for time may not be an option in the face of that dwindling pile of foreign exchange reserves...