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Romney defended the FHA for its willingness to insure home mortgages in high-risk areas when private lenders had long refused to do so. "Our department has made mistakes," Romney said, "but we will not abandon the central city as so many have done." HUD, he insisted, will "not abandon even a single house-we either rehabilitate and sell it, or we demolish...
...born of the Industrial Revolution, the Irishman of the Book of Kelts" one Northern Irish journalist wrote recently. The curious thing about the Ulster Protestant is that he feels neither completely Irish nor completely British. Catholic Ireland, he fears, will submerge his Protestant identity; Britain, he fears, will abandon him. Last week events merely intensified his anxieties. Complained Ulster Politician Joe Burns: "It is typical of the British government to placate their enemies to crucify their friends...
...long dreamed of an international language, but attempts to promote one have always failed, probably because no country wants to abandon its traditional tongue. Now a new means of international expression is beginning to catch on, one that carries no threat to national pride: the silent, visible language of graphic symbols. To spread the word about these substitutes for words, Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss has just compiled a Symbol Sourcebook (McGraw-Hill, $28.50) of 8,000 universally comprehensible signs...
...selling "from a Swiss base" of mutual funds that are not registered with the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. To register them now would rob I.O.S. of one of its few remaining assets-freedom from legal surveillance. The new Swiss laws thus have the effect of giving I.O.S. notice to abandon its Geneva headquarters...
...there any things you feel so deeply for that you would abandon your novelist's stance for a Maileresque pose...