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...grouped in villages like Dosbarrios. The scandal's widespread reach suggests that, for all the country's recent economic growth, many Spaniards remain financially naive. "There was a lack of knowledge here," says Mayor Martínez. "Very few people understood the reality of the market." In that vacuum, the promise of higher yields - starting at 6%, as compared to the banks' 2% - easily outweighed caution. "It spread from mouth to mouth," explains Martínez. "One person would tell a friend or relative about the money he was earning, and that person would convince the next." Indeed, there...
...head sustained three cracks; Geneste says the cracks aren't new. Some believe that a ridge around part of the Great Hall bears the marks of the restorers' ladders, and that the lower parts of the walls have been changed through the use of a powerful water-based vacuum cleaner called a Gregomatic...
...look at the polling in the last few years, it points in the same direction," says Will Marshall, head of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. "Even though the public is losing confidence in Republicans, they?re not sure what the Democrats have to offer. Filling that vacuum is critically important...
...Office? Didn’t they know I was finally graduating from Harvard? They must have forgotten. Otherwise, they would have called to say, “Hello, Ms. Wilf, we are thrilled that you are finally graduating from Harvard. There’s been a terrible vacuum here for the past four years. How soon can you be here...
...baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum.”At this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant...