Now, for many years, credit cards and home equity loans papered over this harsh reality.
And they were papered over by massive leverage, credit card debt, a housing market bubble.
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Perhaps the easiest explanation is because the American Jewish leadership papered over his hostility.
And up till now, it has papered over the cracks between the prime minister and the chancellor.
History does have a way of repeating itself, so perhaps our papered money modern world will rediscover silver.
The pricey signing of Robin van Persie papered over many cracks in the first half of the campaign.
And our opposition to those elements of the House Republican proposal have, we have not at all papered over.
England could have won the first Test but if they had, it would have papered over the cracks again.
ASEAN's divisions over Cambodia may soon be papered over, other problems created by expansion may be harder to disguise.
Other disputes can be papered over or worked through for a long time.
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Are tickets flying out of the box office or is the house papered?
Entry-level wages, as seen on notices papered on store-fronts, are ticking ever upward.
For the summit, the cracks in the country's francophone credentials were papered over.
Moreover, differences among the Social Democrats on economic and social policy, hitherto papered over, are starting to emerge more clearly.
The work around of using New Hampshire professional corporation might still work, but clearly the files need to be better papered.
And along with that would go the false armistice between governments and investors that has papered over the underlying financial crisis since 2008.
Almost nothing was offered on the first and third, and the G20 conclusions papered over lingering transatlantic differences on stimulus plans and financial regulation.
In the long term, however, we need to address a set of economic challenges that, frankly, the housing bubble largely papered over for almost a decade.
Though Surface's look and feel is now final, the team's design room remains papered in blown-up photos, a mix of renderings and inspirational objects -- things like a slim Moleskine notebook.
There's a tendency for these borrowers, and their lenders, to live in a delusional world in which an inability to service the debt is papered over with refinancings and creative repayment schedules.
She finished her closets' floors and painted the moldings in shades that complemented the papers, and, when faced with irregularly shaped closets, she papered the slanted ceilings, too, for a more polished look.
Continual growth has papered over these loan-quality issues.
Barbara Knight said that long after police stopped searching, she papered Cleveland's West Side with fliers, and that even after she moved from Cleveland, she would often return to continue the search on her own.
Indeed, the stakes are nothing less than the future of America, whose best hope is that a new, stronger and more dynamic Reagan conservative coalition will emerge from the divisions papered over at CPAC 2011.
We called them Bermanites, after their intellectual and sartorial model, an English teacher named Robert Berman: a small, thin, unsmiling man who papered over the windows of his classroom door so that no one could peek through.
After ascending 96 steps, the public gets close up access to the statue, now surrounded by pink-papered walls with a motif of Elvis, hotdogs and other iconic Americana rather than its normal backdrop of skyscrapers and Central Park.
It got papered over because there was a lot of cheap credit out there so people were just able to keep up by getting more credit cards and taking out more home equity loans, but the long-term trends were not good.
Meanwhile, the debt crisis that has been sweeping across Europe is being papered over country crisis by country crisis with still higher levels of debt, while euro zone officials and G-20 nations repeatedly meet but are unable to agree on much of anything related to more permanent solutions.
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One night in early autumn, with the swampy ground of the Nature Preserve papered with fallen leaves, I was hunkered down to examine a dead snake about a foot in length whose color I thought might in life have been green, when, as I stood, I felt something brush the top of my head.
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