EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com.A new gold rush The hot housing market is California's modern-day gold rush. But the quest to get a piece of it is pushing people and financial institutions into ever-riskier business. City Hall whodunit When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That's what the mayor and City Council did when they went on vacation without answering questions about who's responsible for cutting a sweetheart deal Sweetheart Deal A merger or company sale where one company involved in the deal gives the other very attractive terms and conditions. Notes: In other words, a sweetheart deal is a transaction that a firm simply cannot pass-up. This is usually considered to be unethical. with DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection workers. Don't kill the messenger It's not the test's fault that so many students have done poorly on the state's high school exit exams. The test is just a tool, and dumping dumping, selling goods at less than the normal price, usually as exports in international trade. It may be done by a producer, a group of producers, or a nation. the exam before it's given a chance to succeed is a bad idea. Broken values The vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and of the soon-to-open Orange Line busway demeans the entire Valley. But it's up to the entire community to take back the busway - and the streets - and stand up to the petty Petty girl airbrushed beauty, scantily clad in Esquire’s pages. [Am. Lit.: Misc.] See : Sex Symbols criminals. |
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