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...even the home lender of last resort is increasingly ditching those with low scores in favor of people with better credit. In the last seven months of 2009, the most recent data available, the FHA, which doesn't make its own loans but provides insurance for lenders that do, backed just $8.3 billion in loans to borrowers with a credit score of 619 or worse. That's down from $39 billion in the same time period a year before. (See a report card on the stimulus programs...
Shoes matter a lot too, don't they? Yes, they really do. You can kill your entire outfit with shoes. Everybody looks better in a heel, and I know once you reach a certain age you don't want to wear a seven-inch heel or a five-inch heel or maybe even a four-inch heel, but if you could just wear a little heel, and sometimes a platform shoe could be a little easier. If you wear a pump with a platform, it could be easier to walk on, and then a thicker heel could be easier...
...dark wooden paneling and bronze chandeliers. The staff is very friendly, making sure to enforce dining restrictions so all Eliotites can find seats. The House grill is known for its delicious egg-and-cheese sandwiches as well as its succulent omelettes. The House organizes seven formal three-course dinners a year, though places are limited...
...believe what he was seeing and hearing. "Someone came up to me and said, 'We've run aground - she's finished,' " he recalls. "I was flabbergasted. They were jumping for joy and singing on the fantail." As it turned out, one of the ship's propellers had broken. But seven years later, Kaprow still cannot fathom which was worse: that U.S. sailors were openly heckling a captain or that the captain seemed to deserve it. (See the top 10 scandals...
...gravest threat to America's national security? "The present Administration," said Jim McKelvey, a Franklin County real estate developer who ponied up $500,000 to jump-start his campaign. (Another candidate, Laurence Verga, suggested "the people that voted the current Administration in.") Instead of jousting over policy, the seven hopefuls served up a buffet of popular items - pledging to slash taxes, confront Iran, try terrorists at Gitmo and close the borders. From the reaction of the raucous crowd, the candidates have their ears close to the ground. "I look where our government, both Republicans and this Administration, has taken...