Word: spent
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...effort being spent on whipping companies into shape, though, there is much less energy going toward addressing the changing nature of foreclosure. HAMP was crafted to deal with the effects of the housing bubble: excessively easy credit let people buy homes they couldn't really afford and often with loans that carried spiking interest rates and payments...
...vague resemblance to the [Black] Panthers, except that the Panthers had been teenagers and the ones who weren’t teenagers had a youthful look, an aura of youthfulness and tragedy, whereas the members of the Mohammedan Brotherhood were grown men, broad shouldered with huge biceps, people who spent hours and hours at the gym, lifting weights, people born to be bodyguards, but whose bodyguards...
...likewise recognize that there is this endorsement may raise some eyebrows, given that Alan A. Khazei ’83, who has spent significant time and resources here on campus, is Harvard’s favorite son. However, we actually find Khazei’s preoccupation with Harvard to be curious. In an election to represent all of Massachusetts, a candidate should probably not focus so much on a university whose students are largely not constituents...
...retirement plan provides eligible faculty members with three options for financially-supported retirement within a a maximum of four years. The 127 eligible faculty members—tenured professors over the age of 65 who have spent at least 10 years at Harvard—must accept by June...
...Another factor driving the calls for a second stimulus is that nearly 90% of the original stimulus money targeted for infrastructure projects will have been spent by May, and the Highway Trust Fund could be running a shortfall in June, says House Transportation Committee chairman James Oberstar. "[It] means, unless we do something about it, we'll start losing jobs instead of creating jobs in the construction sector," he says. For that reason, one part of a proposed jobs bill would subsidize 30 states that are unlikely to meet their annual highway commitments next year and would...