Word: roundness
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...According to the First American CoreLogic report, the states with the highest percentage of negative-equity borrowers are the usual suspects. After Nevada (55.1%) and Michigan (40%), Arizona (31.8%), Florida (30.3%) and California (29.5%) round out the top five. Those statewide averages, though, mask a lot of local variation. One pattern: exurbs, where homes are newer and loans more likely to have been signed during the bubble years, are harder hit. For instance, in the metro area that includes Los Angeles, 23% of homeowners are faced with negative equity. Fifty miles to the east, in the area that includes Riverside...
...some of the financial firms that many market watchers are concerned that some of the largest banks will go bankrupt unless they get significantly more government assistance. Indeed, the government last week released a plan to help boost Citigroup's common equity by $50 billion. It is the third round of financial help the government has provided Citi in less than six months. Still, the bottom lines of banks, while ugly, are expected to look significantly better in 2009 than in 2008. And that's not something that can be said of other sectors...
...Cold War—a victory that was accompanied by the wholesale economic collapse of the entire region. And the Russian leadership is highly aware of the stakes at hand. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of initiating “a new round of arms race,” and Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has warned that Russia is “not afraid of… a Cold War.” Hopefully Medvedev’s threat relies more on bravado than truth, but this assumption is not a risk worth taking...
Before coming to Harvard, Rogers was drafted by the New York Islanders in the fourth round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. The prospect is a well-rounded player known for his shooting ability and passing vision...
This weekend, the fifth-seeded Crimson will face last-place Brown in a best-of-three series in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs. In two games against the Bears this season, Rogers did not score and Harvard tied both contests. If Rogers nets one this time around, the final result will probably be different...