Word: tad
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...though, it's history. With each new market minipanic this year, interest rates have gone up a tad, lending standards have gotten a little tighter, and the easy-money era has receded further. Rates are still low by historic standards, and some kinds of loans are still cheaper than they were last summer. But the economy was growing at more than 3% then. This year it has sputtered. Interest rates are supposed to sink when that happens. They haven...
...First, the press likes Bloomberg himself - he's one of us (just a tad richer), having earned his fortune running his eponymous media company -and many of the biggest players in New York and Washington media circles are chummy with the dinner-party-charming Mayor...
Little wonder, then, that Yuma is a tad giddy these days. "Bill Gates isn't coming out here to open a Microsoft plant, so we have to use what we have," says Doug Sanderson, Yuma's city manager. "The ethanol operations are a good synergy with our corn, water, waste treatment, hardworking people, our transportation. It's a good...
...then suddenly flex. How can a player who entered the Aussie appearing, to put it gently, a tad robust still romp to a title? "I have a big ass, I have big boobs," says Williams, who is 5 ft. 9 in. and listed at 135 lbs. "It's not common for athletes to have those assets. I'm never going to be a size 0." Williams admits she wasn't in top shape--and still isn't--but don't call her overweight. She prefers "bootylicious." Which makes the Aussie win even more delicious. "I've never seen anyone play...
...lenders to route a percentage of revenue from student loans back to the schools, with the funds often explicitly directed into financial-aid coffers. Congress and at least two states are looking into these inducements, which New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo calls "kickbacks"--a label that seems a tad unfair if the money helps cash-strapped students rather than enrich officials. But with the spotlight now on student loans, critics are clamoring to reform what has become an $85 billion industry...