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...Huelle hadn't done anything wrong - she never missed a payment, and her credit score was unchanged - but tighter lending standards across the board meant the safety net she'd counted on for emergencies (a dog-dryer breakdown, say) was suddenly that much smaller. Now, as a precaution, she's cutting outlays, including the money she spends on inventory. "The banks are looking at everyone with a fine-tooth comb," she says. "In terms of the consumer, they're not going to have the same selection or quantity they would have otherwise...
...would not be wrong to suggest there are a lot of reasons why we shouldn’t pay these swashbucklers their ransom money. Would that there was a way to dispense with the problem more surgically and without having to spend a dime. But alas, this is a potentially explosive global situation, the sixties are over, and sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind and open your wallet—wide...
...have found some evidence of a growing ‘class gap’ in civic involvement in America, with younger Americans from well-off backgrounds increasing their participation in politics and society, while kids from the wrong side of the tracks are increasingly dropping out,” wrote Putnam, who founded the Seminar in 1995, in an e-mailed statement. “This generous new grant will help us better understand the dimensions of this problem, and to explore its origins...
...transcript: Obama was far more forceful on the page than he was on the screen. He just lambasted McCain quietly. A key moment was the Iraq question: McCain was very strong here, slamming Obama for not supporting the surge. But Obama's litany of things McCain had gotten wrong ("You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators ...") was devastating. And his bottom line - that the war in Iraq had been a diversion from the real fight against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan - made far more sense...
...done without their votes. Worse yet, there is precious little that President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson or Boehner has left to threaten them with, as the three leaders are already an endangered species. "It is a tough deal; there's no safe way to do the wrong thing," says former Republican majority leader Dick Armey. "The majority of the Republicans in the House understand the gravity of this situation: a fundamental realignment of the political and economic structures of this country, which diminishes role of the markets and increases the role of the government...