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According to ACORN, this is a violation of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1988, which was intended to eliminate bias in lending...
...Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which investigates lenders to ensure that they provide capital to low income areas, says banks may practice a form of "pre-screening" by failing to pursue loans in certain neighborhoods...
...feel that it's necessary to find out why there were so many larcenies last year, and find out what we can do to stop this alarming trend," said Sally R. Acorn, who is executive director of the Association...
...know it is the right thing to do," and hurried home to Washington to confront his first hostage crisis as President. He jumped off his helicopter Marine One onto the South Lawn of the White House. Walking in the fetid summer air toward the Oval Office, he kicked an acorn lying on the drive, a small sign of George Bush's frustration at finding himself caught in the terrorist web that humiliated his predecessors. That was about his only display of raw anger...
...most important sandwich is undoubtedly the hamburger, whether the thin patty made famous by fast-food chains or the thicker chopped-steak version, epitomized by the specimen at Acorn on Oak, a bar and grill in Chicago. Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York...