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...thoughts of today's troubled housing market conjure up images of lonely tumbleweeds blowing across streets of empty condos and "For Sale" signs, a couple of financial wizards have come up with a program they believe could breathe new life and buyer confidence into the decimated sector. It's called Sirius Value Protection - and works like a 'put option,' where buyers of new homes get the right to exercise a put that would require Sirius buy back the home at the original price after an eight-year period...
...bluefin tuna trade would likely raise consumer prices of the fish in the short term, but it may be the only thing that could prevent the tuna population from collapsing altogether. It would also represent a rare occasion when the international community proved willing to sacrifice today to protect the future. "Nothing in the fishing world like this has ever happened before," says Stevens. "It's a huge step forward...
...take data, acknowledge any uncertainties about exactly what it means, then go out and take more data to narrow those uncertainties. That's exactly why human-triggered global warming was widely acknowledged to be mostly theoretical a few decades ago - and why it's considered a scientific fact today...
...went into the boat house at night and copied the names of alumni down from the pictures there. I then went to the general directory, found their addresses, and sent them the letters. I also got money from the Office for the Arts, which I am a supporter of today. The grant gave me seed money to make this documentary and it instilled me with confidence that the project had validity. I made it in partnership with another student who was in my class. We sold it. I later got a job in L.A. as an assistant to the head...
Since then, the going has been a little easier. Amya’s condition is managed today through 11 different medications, which she takes at the public school she attends...