With 20percentt deposits, no financing contingencies, disappearing closing cost concessions and endless pricing amendments (with the prices finally going in the right direction), it's almost like the doldrums of 2009 never happened.
"The Corker Hoeven compromise doesn't just come at a high price: this amendment makes border communities a sacrificial lamb in exchange for the road to citizenship," Christian Ramirez, Director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition and a member of CAMBIO, said in a statement.
"That a candidate who wants to put an ad on television has to assert, in a rather stupid-sounding manner, 'I stand behind the views I just articulated' certainly has a First Amendment price," Mr. Abrams said.
It also suggested that, by raising the price of books, the amendment would be bad news for consumers.
"The government will therefore consult on an amendment to pricing regulations which would require airlines to separate out air passenger duty from their other fees and charges".
Indeed: the 5% amendment is the price that the government has paid to the Lib Dems.
In other words, the Virginia law restricted listeners' access to speech (in the form of price information) that the First Amendment entitled them to.
It's almost as if enduring the brashness, the shrillness and the impatience, even that silly Decency Commission and not-so-silly intolerance for the First Amendment was the price we had to pay to ensure that Mr. Giuliani would be in charge when terrorism assaulted his city.
Liberals, for example, often defend grotesque violence in film and hip-hop music, denying that it has anything to do with gun crime, and claiming that tolerating it is the price one pays for First Amendment freedom of expression.
Last week Shkreli declined to answer questions in a drug-prices hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself.
Though amendments usually list price increases, this one, prepared under the direction of the state attorney general's staff, disclosed the dispute and gave buyers the right to get out of their contracts.
