• Despite the first monthly increase in home prices in 7 months, as the Case-Shiller indexes showed on Tuesday, there are still more than 10 million properties with underwater mortgages, and a shadow inventory of 1.5 million, or four months supply.

    FORBES: 10 Million Underwater Mortgages And Shadow Inventory Worth $246B Mean Housing Trouble

  • The housing recovery is already having a positive impact on growth, pushing GDP up as residential investment accelerates, but with more than 1.1 million homes in some state of foreclosure and a shadow inventory that tops 2 million units, it will take some time for the market to truly heal, while the risk of slowdown and a reversal remains a possibility.

    FORBES: Home Prices Growing At Pre-Bubble Rates On Bernanke Boost, But Big Shadow Inventory Lurks

  • He will be sadly missed by all in the road racing fraternity, but most particularly by his family, and the absence of the 'number 45' will leave a massive void in the paddock and cast a shadow over the forthcoming North West 200 and Isle of Man TT.

    BBC: Finnegan tragedy

  • Though the U.S. military sees progress in the war, pointing to campaigns in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand over the past year, the Taliban remain a formidable foe, retaining the ability to launch daily attacks, assassinating government officials and operating a shadow government in large swaths of the countryside.

    WSJ: Pressure Rises on U.S to Trim Troop Numbers in Afghanistan

  • "We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.

    BBC: Mr Punch celebrates 350 years of puppet anarchy

  • The focus on EPA is a diversion and casts a large shadow on what FDA is doing.

    CNN: Mercury report met with optimism

  • Ever since then, most of the chatter has been about a double-dip in prices, a massive buildup of inventories, and a lurking shadow inventory.

    FORBES: Housing Recovery? Starts And Sales Of Existing Units Hit Two-Year Highs

  • Thousands of pensioners were overpaid pension credit last year - and a Conservative shadow minister has raised fears they may have to repay the money.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Pension credit clawbacks denied

  • France were making uncharacteristic handling errors and looked a shadow of the side that attacked with such inventiveness in last week's entertaining defeat against Ireland.

    BBC: France 22-13 Scotland

  • Spain international Torres, who won the golden boot at this year's Euro 2012 tournament, has scored just four goals this season and looks a shadow of the player who shone during four seasons at Anfield.

    CNN: Champions League winner Di Matteo sacked by Chelsea

  • However, aside from a Cole snap-shot on the turn on the stroke of half-time, Ancelotti's men looked blunt going forward and were a shadow of the side that had plundered 14 goals in their three preious matches.

    BBC: Aston Villa 0-3 Chelsea

  • In 1960 the republic's population was down to around 2.8m, the lowest in two centuries and a pale shadow of the 8m (for the whole island) in 1840, when this was one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.

    ECONOMIST: The luck of the Irish

  • The tool will collect data and start populating a shadow Twitter account with a daily tweet that the algorithm determines match the person's habits and interests.

    CNN: How to post to Facebook, Twitter after you die

  • Justine Greening moved to local government, Greg Hands became a shadow Treasury minister and John Penrose moved to be a shadow business minister.

    BBC: Clarke heads Cameron's reshuffle

  • When the stranger was a dozen steps away from the truck and casting a long shadow on the beach, he held his position.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Assassins Gallery'

  • With delicate observation and quietly intense pathos, Dreyer captures the actors in a dappled light and a depth of shadow that seem to illuminate his characters from within.

    NEWYORKER: The Parson's Widow

  • The unstageability that has so often deterred directors in the past was overcome by a masterly use of light and shadow on a stage which was kept almost completely bare.

    ECONOMIST: The stage of nations

  • As sports enthusiasts were being tantalized by an endless array of Topps and Upper Deck exhibits, an excursion to Camden Yards and even a cavalcade of Baltimore sports legends, a suspicious and ominous presence casted a daunting shadow over the normally joyous festivities.

    FORBES: Buyer Beware: The Fragility Of The Sports Memorabilia Industry

  • Lighting the ruin of my hope and my will, till I'm like a shadow and I'm falling on you, crawling on you.

    NPR: Joe Henry Is a Still Driving Man

  • But the Brotherhood, although legally banned in Egypt for decades and living in a shadow world politically, was nonetheless a major factor in what happened next.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: How to make Egypt safe for democracy

  • United outclassed Bruce Rioch's minnows, but injuries to Scholes and Rooney cast a shadow over the win, which leaves them with four points from their first two group games.

    BBC: AaB Aalborg 0-3 Man Utd

  • He assumes that the black economy works largely on cash to dodge the taxman or the policeman, and so a bigger shadow economy means a greater demand for banknotes.

    ECONOMIST: The shadow economy

  • But a veto of all these missions, involving everyone's personnel, not just Americans, could cause real problems in many countries, and would cast a shadow over the entire concept of international peacekeeping.

    ECONOMIST: Tipping the scales of justice | The

  • But that is just the beginning of an ambitious to-do list from the Fund, which starts from recognising, in the words of the staff report, that "incomplete economic and financial and fiscal integration is casting a shadow on the future of Economic and Monetary Union".

    BBC: A fork in the road for the euro?

  • When Kitty was 9 years old, her father taught her a trick to measure the height of the windmill on her grandfather's farm: Measure its shadow and compare it with the shadow of a yardstick.

    FORBES: The Universe and Mrs. Ferguson

  • After the stylist and editor Giovanna Battaglia took a spin and the machine offered up some eye shadow based on her selection, a representative from Chanel offered to send her some more products the next day at her office.

    WSJ: Tribeca's Expanding Calendar

  • You can see what Clooney and Papamichael were aiming for: a shadow-hatched chamber piece, with men and women battling head to head.

    NEWYORKER: Primary Suspect

  • If you're a mountain lover, turn your passion into a career and live in the shadow of your favorite peak by becoming a professional climbing guide.

    FORBES

  • The gameplay unfolds both with a traditional overhead map and in a story mode told with shadow-puppets in which the player must make choices about what has already happened.

    FORBES: 'Unwritten: That Which Happened' Reaches Its Last Hours On Kickstarter

  • Liberal Democrat spokesman David Laws said the rights had been drawn up "on the back of a fag packet" and shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the process was a "complete waste of time".

    BBC: Children, Schools and Families Bill

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