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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Part 1 of this article will address several questions to lay the groundwork for a broader discussion about closing and related transaction costs in Part 2. For the sake of simplicity, this article will mainly focus on lender’s title insurance. First, it is a significant contributor to buyer-paid closing costs. 10] See [link]. [11]

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND. References. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Third, was the pro-tunnel effort, which failed, and the desire to have a better connection to the Dulles Airport Terminal, more comparable to National Airport (" Winners and losers with the Dulles subway project ," 2007). This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.)

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).