Word: stops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other core issue is that too many people can no longer afford their mortgage. Maybe they took out an adjustable-rate loan that has reset higher, or they lost a job in the slowing economy. If we could stop the cycle of defaults and foreclosures, the thinking goes, we could prevent deeply discounted, bank-sold homes from flooding the market, keep losses from further impairing mortgage-backed securities and preserve property values. That's how we wind up with ideas like paying mortgage servicers to make loans more affordable and changing the bankruptcy code to allow judges to reduce...
...cigarettes cause cancer, but they also tend to believe they're less likely than other smokers to get it. And as any snack-loving dieter can attest, people can be comically inept at predicting their future behavior. You swear you will eat just one potato chip but don't stop until the bag is empty. (Read Laura Blue's Wellness blog on TIME.com...
...your mathematician boyfriend slips his arm around your shoulders and says, “Hey, I think we need to reduce your genus by one?” Do you laugh, or do you dump him? Communication: kind of a bid deal. And yet I couldn’t stop thinking about that final leap: leaving the humanities dating pool forever. No more square glasses. No more jokes about Simone de Beauvoir. The English major who was dating the engineer seemed cheerful. “I think in some ways dating outside the humanities fulfils the purpose of the Core...
...most predictable plot points. What “He’s Just Not That Into You” does best is preserve and enrich the various voices from the book. It bares women’s insecurities without sacrificing a sense of empowerment. When Alex tells Gigi to stop seeing men who are clearly not interested in her, she replies in a small voice, “So I’m just supposed to run away from every guy that doesn’t like me?...Then there’ll be nobody left...
...realized I had crossed over to the other side. My inability to control my research was like the Schmooze’s inability to contain itself on the forum. It was a testament to how integral the sandwich is to all our lives—whether or not we stop to think about it. What had started as a simple definitional question had sprawled into an epic exploration of our collective obsession with the sandwich. So, yes Adams, the wrap is a sandwich. And yes, an analysis so complicated for a dish so simple may seem ridiculous. But I dare...