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Meanwhile, the outlook for the entire industry remains grim. Show rooms across the country are empty. Furthermore, in spite of Monday's huge upturn on Wall Street, GMAC, the finance company owned jointly by GM and Cerberus, did not loosen its strictures on credit, announcing it would not underwrite loans for any customer who did not have a credit score of at least 700, effectively shutting out the majority of buyers. Said GMAC spokeswoman Sue Mallino: "The company currently expects these actions to remain in place until the credit markets stabilize and accessibility improves...
...copies of a photo that one of their other roommates found embarrassing and taped them to every possible surface in their suite (and put a couple up in Annenberg). On another occasion, he covered a roommate’s room in miniature green army men. In spite of his severe and progressing condition, Friedman remained committed to being a normal college student. On top of his regular course load during his freshman year (his illness forced him to scale back slightly on his classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote...
...about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them at home and take care of them, and they went broke and the kids are in jail...
...album’s message. While it’s refreshing to hear a person reject the misogynistic hip-hop image, he sacrifices too much of his “eclectic eccentricity” (touted in “Lookin’ Fly”) for conventional tropes. In spite of his best efforts, MURS’ shit is not as raw as his moniker promises.Of course, in response to these complaints, the no-longer-underground Nick Carter would say with uncharacteristically good humor, “Oh you mad cause I’m stylin?...
...spite of these small road bumps, however, I have made some progress. You can often find me sporting Converse sneakers (laces self-tied), and if I were unfortunate enough to live in the Quad or have an athletic bone in my body, you can rest assured that I would be the proud owner of a two-wheel bike. I can stay afloat in a pool, and somehow I did learn to do a cartwheel. I even welcome my future of battling photocopy machines and printers with open arms (I make no promises regarding fax machines however—these remain...