Word: virginia
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...roommate phenomenon is common enough that Virginia already has case law that governs what couples who are separated but living under the same roof may and may not do if they want the separation to lead to a divorce. Sex is definitely out, as is doing each other's laundry, shopping or cooking for each other and going on a date. Virginia, clearly, is not for ex-lovers...
...useful" part, at least, is confirmed by John McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer's argument that her candidate would win in "real Virginia," as opposed to the D.C. suburbs. And it certainly had something to do with why McCain and Barack Obama mentioned Joe the Plumber in the final presidential debate more than 20 times and why McCain praised him on the stump as though he were Ronald Reagan...
...giving away information to any government entity that wants it. Those sorts of relationships build credibility, and besides, RealtyTrac's business model isn't selling data; it's selling addresses of foreclosures to real estate agents, investors and home buyers. When J.D. Bondurant, a research analyst at the Virginia Housing Development Authority, was given the job of understanding which parts of the state were being hit hardest by foreclosure, he called First American CoreLogic, a highly regarded data aggregator that covers 3,000 counties in-depth and counts lenders, investors and ratings agencies among its clients. But with databases costing...
...influence of RealtyTrac goes beyond shaping public-policy responses like the one in Virginia. The company winds up having sway over the very concept of foreclosure rates. Early on, members of New York's task force thought the best way to look at foreclosure rates would be as a percentage of households with a mortgage. That was finally tossed in favor of RealtyTrac's measure of foreclosures as a percentage of all households. If the state reported its preferred figure, it would seem to have a greater problem than other states when people compared the two sets of data. "RealtyTrac...
...Virginia Sapiro, the dean of arts and sciences and a professor of political science at Boston University, was also on the panel...