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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about home sales and prices? It seems if the housing market recovers, that should help the foreclosure situation. It should help. Ironically enough, I think foreclosure sales are contributing to home prices stabilizing. In one way, we have certain markets that may have overcorrected. If you go to a Stockton, Calif., or a Las Vegas or somewhere like that, when there is a bank property on the market, the realtors are getting dozens of offers above asking price. We're seeing bidding wars at the lower end of the market. I think what we're seeing in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The Outlook for Home Foreclosures | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...obsessed with its own culture and tradition—futilely reciting its own history, vaunting the likes of pillaging explorers and toothless prospectors into high history, however much it may reel in disgust over where that history has left off. The punchdrunk men that shuffle in the streets of Stockton, CA are the orphans of generations prior, generations with some war or famine or calling to give them purpose. So they fight.The fighting never finds purpose, and the fighting never becomes a purpose in and of itself. Nor does boxing become some sort of metaphor for life or pseudo-fascist...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Frontiers of American Tragedy | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...abstract in THURJ.Glenda Carpio: This scholar in the Af-Am and English Department has been working round the clock to fill in her Venn diagram of commonalities between Meg Ryan, Karl Malone, and Vinnie Chiappini. Hint, Glenda: It’s an affinity for John Stockton! Sound fundamentals AND short shorts? Who wouldn’t want to ‘pick and roll’ with him? [3]Xiaofei Tian: A rising star in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department, he has constantly worked to improve relations between the AAA [Asian American Association] and the AAA [Admirers...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Hotshots? More Like Waterboys | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...just wealthy districts, either. Kaplan has started prep programs in economically troubled cities like Detroit and Stockton, Calif., where the courses are school-funded and free for students. PrepMe is working with the state of Maine as well as inner city charter schools across the Midwest, with full funding from philanthropists or the schools themselves. Aside from partnerships with high schools in the wealthy New York suburbs of Brewster and Harrison, WilsonDailyPrep also recently signed on to offer discounted online programs at Riverside High School in Yonkers, N.Y., a city where a quarter of people under 18 live below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAT in the Recession: Test-Prep Prices Drop | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...real estate markets began to decline and where the most subprime loans where made, he was a client of Countrywide. He got a $250,000 mortgage five years ago, He did not have to put a nickel down to get the loan. The value of real estate in Stockton, California, where he bought his home had been rising at 10% a year for four years. He was a good credit risk not because of his income but because the value of the asset he bought was bound to go up 100% by the end of this decade. Two months after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding the Man Who Started the Global Recession | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

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