The interest expense rose pretty significantly over the four years though.

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He loved to bowl -- he could have given me some tips. (Laughter.) Rose says he was pretty good-looking, too.

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These were periods of pretty heavy defaults, and yet national house prices rose every year.

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"Some people are telling me they're Republicans and they're pretty upset with what's going on, and they just want to change their party, " said Rose Fonda of the San Mateo Board of Elections.

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