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...loans. The French real estate market is slowing, but the more prudent approach of French banks lessens the prospect of foreclosures, which have haunted millions in the U.S. and are one major origin of the current crisis. That's hardly a reason for smugness, either, though, since there's scant evidence that enlightened domestic practices in France or anywhere else can ward off contagion from a global meltdown...
...you’ll never know it, since she only speaks Romanian! Fortunately, we have some words of advice to help you break out of your high school years in style. What you need to do is make this first week count. Harvard students have on average a scant 2.75 sex partners during their time here. But what the statistics don’t tell you is that the first experience occurs during Camp Harvard, the other during Senior Week, and the only thing to keep you going in between is that fraction of a person you will meet...
...Proponents of such advertising point to studies that imply a correlation between ads and increased sales, but Medical School professor Stephen B. Soumerai, who is the principal investigator of the study, said that the conclusions were based on “scant data.” [CORRECTION BELOW...
...clicked off at 10:02PM local time, a scant skosh into the single hour of coverage given on all but the last night of conventions by the networks. But the networks replayed the speech. So the president was heard in spite of his party...
...began badly for Mugabe when, displaying scant regard for the poverty of his people, he arrived at parliament in a Rolls Royce, his chief adjutants trailing in Mercedes. "No wonder why these people don't want to relinquish power," an onlooker shouted at massed police lines guarding the building. "Who would want to leave such high life? The cost of these cars alone would pull Zimbabwe out of its mess...