Word: unload
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...While the Beanpot has no effect on Harvard’s Ivy League title hopes, it does reward its winner with Boston-area supremacy and bragging rights for a year—an intangible prize, yet certainly one that a squad at full strength would unload its most effective weapons to obtain...
...TARP companies," said Scott Talbott, vice president of the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents Wall Street's interests in Washington. "The loss of these employees will weaken TARP companies." The compensation crackdown already has other private sector players thinking twice about partnering with the Administration to help unload the banks' toxic assets and get the credit markets moving. (Read "Freddie Mac: Government's New Black Hole...
...take months, or maybe a year. The big bank got a cash infusion when it sold a part of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley. The plan for the creation of a new Citi was based on its ability to limit its losses so that it could buy time to unload other parts of its family of financial companies...
...each week. And Martinez says that in Tucson alone, the average number of new members per month has jumped from 250 to 450 - an increase of 80%. She also says she knew the economy was reaching a new low last month when she posted that she was looking to unload a few extra sweet potatoes the day before Thanksgiving. Within minutes, she got responses from more than 10 potato seekers. And within four hours, the recipients arrived at her home to take away the handful of ingredients...
...people post items when they were in the process of upgrading, offering, say, to give away a desktop computer if they were buying a laptop or an old sofa if they were getting a new one. But today, as consumer spending has plummeted, Martinez is seeing fewer offers to unload such big-ticket items. "What you can sense is that no one is buying anything new," she says. "They aren't upgrading, so there's nothing being passed down...