Word: rife
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...process, dealt a serious blow to Coleman's chances of winning the contest. When Coleman rested his case last Monday, he was arguing for the court to examine fewer than 2,000 absentee ballots. In his closing argument, Coleman's attorney Jim Langdon argued the election was so rife with error that the panel might not be able to declare a winner...
...prickly problem, though - as Dugan has pointed out - is that the available data from the OCC and OTS are rife with flaws. For instance, nowhere do servicers report what, exactly, they're doing when they modify a loan. And that, as it turns out, is an incredibly important detail since other data show that in many cases what they're doing is increasing a struggling borrower's monthly payment. The Maryland Office of Financial Regulation, which collects data on some 380,000 loans from 65 servicers, found that of modifications completed last August and September, 42% kept the monthly payment...
...Fears over Chinese imports are rife in India even though, or perhaps because, bilateral trade between the two countries is burgeoning at nearly 50% a year and the balance of trade is widening in China's favor. In 2004, when bilateral trade was $13.4 billion, the trade balance was in India's favor to the tune of $1.7 billion. But by 2006, India's trade balance had swung to a deficit of $4.12 billion, which grew to $16 billion last year. China is India's largest trading partner...
President Bush's fiscal lifeline for GM and Chrysler, announced at the White House Friday morning, amounts to a $13.4 billion handoff to the incoming Administration of President-elect Obama. The deal is rife with indistinct targets the automakers must meet to avoid being forced to repay the loan in three months, squishy conditions for union sacrifices and a deadline that can be changed under numerous circumstances. And of course the entire thing can be renegotiated at will by the incoming Administration...
...deny the validity of Arendt's subtle, brutal reading of what is surely the most terrible event in a modern history that continues to be rife with such horror. But it is an idea that has lost much of its power to arrest our attention in fictional narrative. In some of the early Internet commentaries on this film, people natter on about the effect on the boy of having sex with an older, presumably exploitative woman - as if that's the big moral issue being explored here. Well, it didn't bother Oprah, who selected The Reader for her book...