Word: waiting
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...core issue is that there aren't enough people buying houses. Usually, when price goes down, demand rises, but in the housing market, falling values make potential buyers fearful, sending them to the sidelines as they wait to see how much cheaper homes will get. If we could restore buyers to the market, the thinking goes, prices would stabilize, delinquent borrowers could sell instead of falling into foreclosure, and the value of the mortgage-related securities contaminating our financial system would stop being such a mystery...
...next time you see a skinny, neurotic boy,” my friend’s mother advised, “don’t date him.” Could people like us find love outside the humanities? To freshmen, this question may seem ludicrous. But wait until you actually have a concentration. You will be forced to learn the habits of your discipline: the code words, the inside jokes. You’ll still be able to talk to people from different disciplines, but it may be a struggle. Humanities concentrators have it the worst; sometimes it bothers...
...front and center of the crowd—when the policewoman in charge announced “hold the line.” Five minutes from the moment, and those around me knew we wouldn’t make it. They really wouldn’t wait for us. I watched those on the other side of the barricade trickle through the metal detectors. I could hear occasional cheers from inside the secured area but had no indication as to exactly how the ceremony was progressing. At noon I heard, “open them up again...
Meanwhile, the case against her husband, alleged mastermind behind the greatest white collar crime ever, will have to wait another day as US federal prosecutors asked for and received another 30-day extension from a judge in US District Court today...
...sure he was giving us the opportunity to use that as a sociological setting.” Students hoping to read the classic anti-club manifesto “Privileged: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class” and hate on the Harvard establishment, should wait to take Nelson’s “Class and Culture” course next fall. But for anyone who’s ever wished they could do homework while partying at the Fly, Harvard has finally invented the perfect class...