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...year, even though the average new-home price is up to $134,000. How could home sales remain strong even though loan rates are rising? One reason is that home buyers are increasingly choosing adjustable-rate loans, which have doubled in volume since this time last year. The introductory teaser rate on new ARMs is still below 6 percent nationwide on average, and individual banks in many areas are offering terms as low as 4 percent...
...probably for the reason cited by Wyoming's Alan Simpson, the G.O.P. deputy leader in the Senate. Says Simpson: "I think he'll do it -- very much in the spirit of competition. He's a lover of politics as a contact sport." And Dole is ever ready with the teaser. "I do a lot of traveling," he likes to say. "I've been to California, New Hampshire, Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa, New Hampshire...
...also recommend that the organization recruit a poster editor. The latest SafetyWalk teaser is a bit ambiguous. "Look Both Ways. Use a Condom. Call SafetyWalk," it reads. Taken one way, it's a list of fundamental precautions. In the wrong hands, though, it becomes a frightening prescription for behavior--something, perhaps, that might be detailed in an Inside Edge how-to feature...
Bush turned down hundreds of personal-appearance requests that were deemed "unpresidential" by aides, but the Clintonites say they will agree to almost anything. "The weirder, the better," said a booker. In early February Clinton appeared in a promotional teaser for a sports-blooper show on a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama. "Just watching one of my regular White House jogs would make your Hall of Shame," plugged Clinton...
...woman wasn't the first to die from the crossfire in the Central District and no article about the incident appeared in the newspaper the next day. A few weeks later, I was watching the news when they went to commercial with a teaser that said something like, "community shaken by drive-by shooting of child." I remember saying to my mother, "I bet the kid's white." I was right...