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...Delaney-Smith is implementing a new system to get the most out of her team’s talent—and the speed of its two starting guards in particular. The new offense will use fewer set plays and stress spontaneity, increasing the importance of Berry’s decision-making...
...obstacle was not an opposing player, but instead something much more innocuous—his back. Magnarelli suffered a stress-fractured vertebra and was placed into a back brace...
Earthquakes can't be stopped; they are a natural process that occurs when too much stress builds up between convergent tectonic plates under the earth's surface. The plates suddenly slip and the ground rumbles with the release of friction. Geologists have found evidence of earthquakes in California that go back thousands of years, although the first strong, documented earthquake occurred in Los Angeles in 1769. A violent earthquake in the 7.9 range toppled trees and buildings around Fort Tejon - a mountainside Army base - in 1857. As severe as the quake was, the state was so sparsely populated...
...program doesn't forgive principal, only defers it, which may not go very far at a time when some 18% of mortgage holders owe more to the bank than their house is worth. "If all they're doing is lengthening the loan maturity, it may reduce the economic stress a little bit, but it doesn't deal with the main problem, which is you have an underwater loan," says Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California...
...things we sell, these ‘affordable extravagances,’ people will still have their occasional five-dollar ice cream cone or eight-dollar cigar.” But he also acknowledged that his store increasingly depends on the University for customers, and that increased economic stress and rising unemployment could deter some customers who live farther away from the Square.“In the old days, people would come into the Square to shop, but now we depend on people who are already in the Square,” said MacDonald. “I don?...