Word: tolls
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Home prices have shown signs of sluggishness in Las Vegas and a handful of other markets, fueling the debate over whether we are in a dangerous housing bubble. TIME senior writer DANIEL KADLEC talked with Bob Toll, CEO of Toll Bros., one of the nation's largest luxury-home builders, who insists that any talk of a slowdown is premature...
...TOLL You're right. I am sick of it. No, we're not in a bubble. Prices have gone up because there has been tremendous constriction in supply along with tremendous immigration and increases in income for baby boomers. We're on track to see the cost of housing as a percentage of income come to the same place as it is in the U.K. and much of Europe, where they pay up to 45% of income for housing...
...nerve to officially mark the graves of all those they've lost," Azimi says. The natural disaster that struck last Dec. 26 in Bam, 300 km from the Pakistani border, was one of the 10 most lethal in recent history. Iranian officials have revised down the initial death toll from 50,000 to 26,271, but many of the surviving population of about 100,000 believe the true number is closer to the initial estimate. In 12 seconds of annihilation, the quake destroyed 85% of the city's buildings, flattening thousands of traditional mud-brick homes as well...
...civilian death toll can be routinely dismissed as an unfortunate by-product of war, an even more uncomfortable aspect for the U.S. of the Lancet study is the conclusion that the majority of the violent deaths had been caused not by terror attacks, but by U.S. air strikes. The use of air power in urban areas has become a routine part of the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq, and such attacks are typically reported as "air strikes against rebel positions." But civilian casualties are pretty much inevitable when air power is used in cities, despite the best intentions and technological capabilities...
...this made for a slower, more physical affair that ultimately played to Duluth’s strengths. The Bulldogs roster boasts three starters taller than the Crimson’s tallest member, and the hard hits and grinding play took its toll on the Harvard skaters late in the game...