Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Outside of Incubus, you’re also known for your side projects: producing, playing in Time Lapse Consortium, writing the soundtrack for “Flow,” and recently your project “End.>Vacuum.” Are you working on anything new while at Harvard...
...What should happen to Fannie and Freddie now? After the savings-and-loan industry imploded, Fannie and Freddie filled the resulting vacuum to become the country's dominant providers of mortgage funding. Earlier this decade, though, Fannie and Freddie were caught cooking the books and punished by regulators with restraints on their growth. Meanwhile, Wall Street firms began buying and securitizing hundreds of billions of dollars in subprime loans too dodgy to meet Frannie's underwriting standards...
...insurgents have fallen 80% since last year - remains fragile. A lack of progress in resolving the country's political divisions could trigger more violence, especially if large U.S. units pull out, Pentagon officials say. When the British pulled out of the southern city of Basra in 2007, the resulting vacuum was filled by Shi'ite militia units until the Iraqi government sent in its improving army in March and brought the city under Baghdad's control. And Bush doesn't want to begin a major withdrawal that could jeopardize recent security gains as his successor takes office...
...Iraq, where attacks by insurgents have fallen 80% since last year. But a lack of political progress in the country could trigger more violence, especially if large U.S. units pull out, Pentagon officials say. When the British pulled out of the southern city of Basra in 2007, the resulting vacuum was filled by Shi'ite militia units until the Iraqi government sent in its improving army in March and brought it under Baghdad's control. Petraeus also doesn't want to risk a security meltdown brought on by a major withdrawal just as a new U.S. President takes office...
...Obama gradually moved further away from grass-roots organizing and into business and politics, Michelle seemed to fill the vacuum. After 18 months, she left the mayor's office to head up the Chicago office of a new charity that was forming: Public Allies, which helps place young people at nonprofits...