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Total home equity in the United States, which was valued at $13 trillion at its peak in 2006, had dropped to $8.8 trillion by mid-2008 and was still falling in late 2008. [322] Total retirement assets, Americans' second-largest household asset, dropped by 22%, from $10.3 trillion in 2006 to $8 trillion in mid-2008.
[4] [5] A collection of many Official films was restored, [6] and released as a 2017 home video box set under the title 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012. [7] “Official” films are those which have been arranged by the host city organizing committee and produced in compliance with the charter. [8]
The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event. During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been the subject of scandals, controversies and incidents. Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games.
November 2008 – 71,000 jobs lost [13] December 2008 – 34,000 jobs lost; January 2009 – 129,000 jobs lost; February 2009 – 82,600 jobs lost [14] March 2009 – 61,300 jobs lost; April 2009 – No net loss (1) May 2009 – 36,000 jobs lost; October 2009 – 43,200 jobs lost; December 2009 - 28,300 jobs lost [15] January 2010 - 43,000 jobs ...
This year, however, only 47% of American women plan to watch a "great deal" or "fair amount" of the Olympics, compared with 63% during the London Olympics in 2012. Men are also down, but only from ...
Bonnie Blair, a gold medalist speed skater who competed at four Olympic Games over a 10-year period, described feeling like “a kid in a candy store” when she first walked into the dining hall ...
The network boasted of being "America's Olympic Network" as it made the longest and most expensive commitment ever since the Olympics were first presented on TV. [ citation needed ] For the 1996 Summer Games, and all Games from 2000 to 2008, NBC paid a total of $3.5 billion, mostly to the International Olympic Committee but also to the USOC and ...
By Alan Devall. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Billy Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979. Paris Hilton watched her Malibu beach mansion burn down on live TV.