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...Obviously, it would be no shock to anybody to hear that we're having a record number of foreclosures going on in our county like I'm sure is going on in every county in the United States because of the financial crisis right now. It's gotten crazier than it's ever been...
...bank of computer screens, and the walls were covered with cartoons, volunteer signatures and lists of "star phonebankers." Young volunteers bustled in and out with stacks of clipboards and canvassing materials to hand to the volunteers who were showing up by the carful in the parking lot. Word had gotten out that a new load of yard signs had arrived, so they were handing those out to Obama supporters who had shown up asking for them...
...gotten harder to be funny as you've gotten older? You get less flexible or something as you get older. Also, when you're 67, as I am - which is hard for me to believe - you basically just feel bad all the time. Anybody who claims not to feel bad when they're 67 is lying. But if you felt good all the time, there wouldn't be any point in being funny. There are lots of people who have stayed funny into their senility. If you can just stay funny till you're dotty, that means you've made...
...product, which hasn't yet happened), charitable giving declines 1%. That might not sound too bad, but keep in mind that during nonrecessionary years, charitable giving in the U.S. has increased 4.3% - which means a recession represents a more than 5% swing in the other direction. And it's gotten even worse than that: during the relatively severe downturn of 1974, giving declined 5.4%. Given that the current crisis seems unprecedented in its scope, no one is willing to predict just how bad things might get for the nonprofit sector. "The ramifications are absolutely going to be huge," says Gordon...
...your neighbor has a heart condition, it's, "Gee, poor Jane, she has to take care of her husband." But if the neighbor has a manic-depressive son, you're kind of mad at them because the kid misbehaves. Unless you're a very, very considerate neighbor that's gotten close to the family, you can't quite understand why Johnny can be such a mean little child, why he does dangerous things. Well, the mom next door gets pretty frustrated, she doesn't know what to do and pretty soon, Johnny's in jail...