Word: voluntaryism
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Up to now, the main such effort has been a voluntary deal announced last December by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in which mortgage lenders agreed to freeze interest rates for certain subprime borrowers. But thanks to the Fed, high rates on adjustable-rate loans are no longer the big problem...
Pakistan is straining under the burden of hosting more refugees than any other country last year, but Guterres says the UNHCR has secured a promise from Islamabad not to force any back to Afghanistan. Of the 130,000 so-called voluntary returns so far this year, he said, 10% have...
The 1993 deluge that swamped Iowa and much of the Upper Midwest was supposed to be a 500-year flood. Fifteen years later, Iowans are rethinking that judgment. In a spring of calamitous weather, the state's can-do stoicism was tested by two tornadoes; one tore through a Boy...
Not that it's an easy one to fix. Most of the nutrient pollution that ends up in the Gulf comes from the hundreds of thousands of farms in the Midwest. The only sure way to shrink the dead zone is to reduce the amount of fertilizer running off those...
Now that the fierce rain storms of recent days have stopped (temporarily we're told), for those of us who are relatively high-and-dry there's a strange disconnect between what we see out our windows and what we know is going on just a few miles away. As...