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...news about foreclosure rates is also a challenge to bank earnings and balance sheets. If the government could have kept hundreds of thousand of mortgage holders in their houses, banks would keep at least some of the income for the properties. Those same banks now face large write-offs on their home loan portfolios which may make the recovery of the financial services industry even more difficult than it already...
...weather the same degree of losses, especially as it has adequately prepared its populace for "martyrdom." As a result, it believes it is able to withstand much greater human and material losses than the U.S. A $100-per-bbl. spike in the price of oil and a few thousand Americans dead, its thinking goes, will convince the U.S. to seek a truce...
Really? Two thousand inflatable penguins that I spent all winter blowing up and signing and dating. I shipped 250 to each of the events on tour this year and people get the penguins in rounds and we have various contests. I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos...
...hers by birth. Swinton was born into a clan of warrior aristocrats whose Scottish home dates back to the ninth century (they supposedly earned the family name by clearing the area of wild boar), and who served prominently in every major British military and political skirmish for a thousand years. One recent ancestor invented the tank; another helped invent television. Over the millennium the Swintons were deeded huge swatches of prime Scottish real estate; Tilda's father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, a.k.a. the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, lives in the family estate, Kimmerghame...
...social space purchase made by the UC would likely have to be funded mostly by the capital campaign. It is unlikely that the Council will finish the year with more than a few thousand dollars outside their reserve fund...