Variable-rate loans — Option Adjustable Rate Mortgages ( Option ARMs ) in particular — were especially attractive because they carried higher fees than other loans, and allowed WaMu to book profits on interest payments that borrowers deferred.

The book embraced America's natural bounty, specifically that of California, while containing recipes that reflected Bertoli and Waters ' appreciation of both northern Italian and French style foods.

In his book America's Great Comic Strip Artists ( 1989 ), Marschall's analysis revealed a decidedly misanthropic subtext:

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

* " An Extraordinary Town, How one of America's smallest towns shaped the world " A book on Clarence Brown's home town with an extensive section on the life and contributions of Clarence Brown.

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

But foreign policy scholars such as Eric Nordlinger in his book Isolationism Reconfigured have argued that " A vision of Finlandization in America's absence runs up squarely against the European states ' long-standing Communist antipathies and wariness of Moscow's peaceful wiles, valued national traditions and strong democratic institutions, as well as their size and wherewithal.

" In the 1995 book America's Alternative Religions, published by the State University of New York Press, Baker wrote: " Although they prefer to be called Unificationists, they are referred to in the media and popularly known as ' Moonies '.

In his book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Chris Hayes has attributed what he calls the ' Fail Decade ' — which includes 9 / 11, the Enron scandal, the invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the subprime crisis and the Great Recession — to the deterioration of America's meritocratic system into one of plutocracy.

Paris, Texas was named " Best Small Town in Texas " in 1998 by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities.

On May 12, Clemens broke a long silence to denounce an heavily-researched expose by four investigative reporters from the New York Daily News, called American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime Clemens went on ESPN's Mike and Mike show to call the book " garbage ", but a review by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book " gripping " and compared it to the work of Bob Woodward.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

In the book Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, it is claimed that he flew the U-2 spy plane, a U. S. Air Force aircraft which took the pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba which President Kennedy used on television on October 22, 1962.

* 2009: Director Michael Mann's film Public Enemies is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.

He further criticized The Elements of Style in Language Log, a blog about language written by linguists, for promoting linguistic prescriptivism and hypercorrection among Anglophones, and called it " the book that ate America's brain ".

In January 1940, Pep Comics debuted featuring the Shield, America's first patriotic comic book hero, by writer and managing editor Harry Shorten and artist Irv Novick.

In the 1960s, the comic book Justice League of America's sidekick Snapper Carr was also portrayed as a stereotypical beatnik, down to his lingo and clothes.

Mantle's off-field behavior is the subject of the book The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, written in 2010 by sports journalist Jane Leavy.

Most recently, former ambassador Dennis Ross advocated this approach to foreign policy in his 2007 book Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World.

Top 10 is a superhero comic book limited series published by the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm, itself an imprint of DC Comics.

* The chapter " Stormy Weather " in the book Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs by Will Friedwald ( New York: Pantheon Books, 2002 ).

The first book about the subject, Bill Kaysing's self-published We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, was released in 1974, two years after the Apollo Moon flights had ended.

The 1945 General Motors Van Nuys Assembly Plant, a major manufacturing facility for General Motors's Chevrolet division along with aerospace and defense plants in neighboring cities led to a prosperity which inspired many to call the San Fernando Valley " America's suburb " ( as in Kevin Roderick's book ).

" He has also written Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space ( 1988 ), a history of the American space program, Mission to Mars ( 1990 ), a non-fiction book on human spaceflight to Mars, and Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places ( 1976 ).

Louis Zamperini, one of America's most promising distance runners, competed in the 1936 Olympics, and later became the subject of the bestselling book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, published in 2010.

Her fifth and final book The Latest Help for Your Nerves was published in 1989, just one year before her death.

* Penn State University Press To the Latest Posterity, the most recent book published by the Pennsylvania German Society on the Fraktur tradition.

She designed the art for many albums by artists like Ida, Ruby Falls, Ted Leo, and Elizabeth Mitchell, as well as the book cover art for " The Latest Winter " by poet Maggie Nelson.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

Landon Jones, who coined the term " baby boomer " in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1943 through 1960, when annual births increased over 4, 000, 000.

That article was soon followed by the book " The Honolulu Marathon ," by journalist Mark Hazard Osmun ; the book was a revelatory chronicle of the then-unfolding social craze called the " Running Boom ," as exemplified in the Honolulu event.

* Potter's Field is the title of an 3 issue limited comic book series ( plus a one shot ) written by Mark Waid and published by Boom!

Ten Boom told the story of her family and their work during World War II in her best selling book, The Hiding Place ( 1971 ), which was made into a film by World Wide Pictures in 1975.

Demographic trends guru Harry S. Dent is making the rounds again, and touting his latest book, The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History ...."

The typeface was used as a display and caption face by Metropolis magazine, by Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau in designing the initial ZONE book series, Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, and has been widely used by Semiotext ( e ) Books, the MIT Press, and Dia Art Foundation.

* Whisper ( comics ), 80s comic book series published by First Comics and continued by Boom!

**( Bowser is known to be piloted by Sadie " Boom Boom " Toepfer in the Heavy Gear Arena book.

Two of her plays, Everything but the Brain and Boom, were published in book form by the Singapore-based independent publisher Epigram Books.

In the 2005 series, Russell T Davies, the lead writer, has stated that several episodes which were written to be budget light have resulted in consuming more money than intended (" The Long Game " and " Boom Town " are two examples cited in the 2005 book " Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts ").

* Tabitha Smith or Boom Boom, a Marvel comic book superheroine

* The action of the book The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, by Edward Gorey, takes place on December 31, 1999, and it refers to the next coming year as the start of the new Millennium, despite the fact that the title of the book calls it the " False Millennium.

In 2001, Bette or Bust, a book chronicling Midler's " Divine Miss Millennium Tour ", was released.

Though Feynman died before they reached Tuva, the journey is chronicled in the book Tuva or Bust !.

Otto Titzling is a fictional character who is apocryphally described as the inventor of the brassiere in a book Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling, published by Macdonald in London in 1971 and by Prentice-Hall in the USA.