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...foreclosures and subprime home loans. The cities are also supposed to acquire the properties at a discount of at least 5% from current market value. But one of the risks of that stipulation, say housing experts, is that if the houses are bought up at too deep a price cut, especially with housing prices so depressed right now, it could force surrounding property values further down and instead exacerbate neighborhood destabilization. That's another reason many cities would have preferred a focus on efforts to prevent foreclosure and keep existing families in those homes. Another problem is that...
...worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is - farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen at least 50% since its peak. Revising the bill is a good idea, but in doing so, we must realize that we will make food more expensive, since some farms will go broke. Sometimes these issues aren't so black...
...independent research seminar. (He says that he still considers himself “a semester behind” in the field.)“I would like to go more into physics and get farther ahead,” he says. “But I consider that the price of [playing] music. Otherwise, I would be taking five courses.” “I don’t know how he does it,” says Daniel P. Gurney ’09, who used to play with Campbell during freshman year. “He?...
...horde of scantily-clad freshman girls to gain entrance. You can always get into option three—House parties—provided you pay a fee. And who wouldn’t want to get down with a sweaty mass of questionable fellow students for the low price of 10 dollars? (Alcohol sometimes, but not always, included if you’re over 21). The crowd at House parties consists of two types of people: freshmen and the sketchy upperclassmen who want to hook up with freshmen. If you don’t fall into those two categories, save...
...determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director of the Cambridge Schools public information office, explained the program’s former standard by giving the example that if 60 percent of a kindergarten class received free or reduced price lunches this year, it would be acceptable for 50 to 70 percent of a kindergarten class at the same school to be in that demographic next year. Controlled choice allows parents to submit their top three choices of schools, but due to required demographic ratios, some students are placed...