'Jeopardy' Contestant Loses $3200 for Mispronouncing 'Gangsta' as 'Gangster'

“A song by Coolio from 'Dangerous Minds' goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic.” The New Year's Day Jeopardy question was looking for the answer “Gangsta's Paradise Lost.” When one contestant responded with “Gangster's Paradise Lost,” he was initially awarded $3,200, but that
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The last decade has seen significant peaks and valleys in the trends of the real estate market, but 2017 offered a new high: there were more residential sales in the first 11 months of the year than in any year previously recorded. Through the middle of December, there were 1,830 home sales in Flathead
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It is a seller's market for condos. A measurement closely watched by the housing industry, known as the sales-to-active listings ratio, reached 59.6 per cent in Greater Vancouver's condo market last month. B.C. real estate agents consider it a balanced market when the ratio ranges from 15 to 20 per cent.
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Rob Copeland reported in the Wall Street Journal that Abrams took on fixed-income deals that included the unwinding of Enron Corp. and a big bet on two government-controlled mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in the wake of the financial crisis. Copeland also noted Abrams does
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Two new Democrats arrived in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, reducing the Republican majority to one vote and lifting the number of women in the chamber to a record level. Vice President Mike Pence swore in Doug Jones, Alabama's first Democratic senator in more than two decades, after his win in last
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A suicide bomber killed 14 worshipers at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, a vigilante leader said, a day after Islamist militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in a rare video. The bomber targeted those attending Wednesday's dawn prayers in the town of Gamboru Ngala in
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MOUNT LAUREL – The parent firm of PHH Mortgage Corp. has agreed to pay $45 million to resolve complaints it improperly foreclosed on borrowers over a four-year period, a state official said Wednesday. The payment, which includes about $30 million for borrowers, is part of a settlement reached
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Chinese Real Estate Scion's California Murder Trial Delayed. The start of a Northern California trial involving a Chinese real estate scion charged with orchestrating the murder of her children's father has been postponed for a third time. Jan. 3, 2018, at 1:34 p.m.. Chinese Real Estate Scion's California
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Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch told employees last month not to offer clients Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust, one of the few financial instruments directly holding the digital coin, as the brokerage broadly eschews the virtual currency. The firm — already known to be refraining from offering
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Daimler AG sold the most luxury vehicles in the U.S. for a second year, with its Mercedes-Benz brand weathering a shrinking market by tapping into America's love of SUVs. Deliveries of the GLC crossover surged 53 percent last month and carried Mercedes to a record December in the U.S. Daimler
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SBA Lending Statistics for Major Programs as of (12-15-2017). This report provides statistics on Year to Date (YTD) SBA Business Loan Approval Activity comparisons for Fiscal Years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 for the period ending 12-22-2017.
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“The Federal Reserve has begun reducing its holdings of Treasury securities and mortgage backed securities, and this will put additional, modest upward pressure on mortgage rates,” MBA Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni said. “We expect that the 10-Year Treasury rate will stay below 3% through the
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The Trump administration is poised to open the door to selling new offshore drilling rights from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Sea, igniting a fight with coastal residents worried about oil spills befouling beaches and jeopardizing tourism dollars. The proposal — set to be the most expansive such offering
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(WLUC) – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced his office, 48 other state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, and over 45 state mortgage regulators have reached a $45 million settlement with New Jersey-based mortgage lender and servicer PHH Mortgage Corporation. The $45
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A law partner to Rudy Giuliani was named the interim top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, taking charge of an office that investigates Wall Street, international bribery and political corruption. Geoffrey Berman was among 17 lawyers named as interim U.S. Attorneys by the Trump administration.
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(File Photo) Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller talks about a rebate agreement for the opioid overdose antidote Naloxone Hydrochloride during a news conference at the Cedar Rapids Fire Department Central Fire Station in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (Jim Slosiarek/The
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… a concentration of leadership in stocks and growing media coverage of events such as bitcoin's surge and Amazon.com Inc.'s success as signs that … yammering about Amazon, Tencent and bitcoin and not Patriot replays — just as late 1999 featured the latest in Pets.com — we are probably down to
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Mortgage applications decreased 2.8 percent from two weeks earlier, according to data from the MBA Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 29, 2017 that was released on Wednesday. The survey took into account seasonal adjustments, including adjustments made for
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