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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It describes how the GSE design defect had very publicly manifested itself in these institutions prior to their being taken over by the government via conservatorship in 2008. Together, parts 1 and 2 of the analysis are essential to understand the FHFA Report and how its proposed reforms are most definitely needed.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. So, yes, that’s definitely where I got started with parts recreation and after school programs. So definitely one way to determine what way you want to offer those programs. Chris: Yeah. Becky: Nice. Chris: Yeah.

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The impact of the worldwide recession on the tech industry 

Open Access Government - Technology News

Although there isn’t one definition that everyone agrees on, some have said that a recession is “two consecutive quarters of falling growth.”. It’s not as bad as 2008. Despite the forecasts, the worldwide recession is probably going to be shorter and less harmful to businesses than prior downturns, according to Morgan Stanley.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Nine | Second stage planning for parks using the cultural landscape framework

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Items like vegetation and Parley's Creek were not covered thoroughly in the most recent (2008) master plan update process. Definitely complicated depending on the nature of the particular park or park system being studied. Sugar House Park is almost 70 years old, and has different planning needs compared to when the park was created.

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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But while some of their divisions have augmented stores with specialty departments, like "Fresh Fare" in Texas slowly being ported to other markets but seemingly only for banners named Kroger (" Kroger opens another Fresh Fare store in Ohio ," Drug Store News , 2008), or the store by their headquarters in Cincinnati (" Inside Kroger’s New Downtown (..)

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

After the 2008 recession, they dropped their primary outreach program. There's definitely a lot of personal impact, with more west side youth going to the University of Utah and other higher education institutions for college. That's why I find the University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program to be pretty interesting.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )

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