Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Weaver, the present chairman of FNMA's board of directors. Most important of all, the change would remove a cloud that looms over the agency's ability to continue operating. Under the Government's new budgetary bookkeeping, all of Fannie Mae's mortgage purchases add to the already large federal deficit...
...reluctance to raise its own discounts and add more upward pressure to housing costs results in a rush to dump loans on Fannie Mae. The association's resources get swamped, and it is forced to curtail purchases just when they are needed most to sustain housebuilding. When Fannie Mae moves to charge an increased discount, private lenders demand still larger ones. In its effort to conserve dwindling funds during the 1966 credit squeeze, Fannie Mae refused to buy loans larger than $15,000-a decision which Lapin says led to "pernicious inequities and market distortions" because "high-cost areas...
...clear, for instance, that in the Humanities and Social Sciences absorbing snatches of information on a steadily growing number of topics can ultimately add up, as if arithmetically, to a meaningful synthesis. The process of linear learning--involving gradual increments in received knowledge over a period of time--works reasonably well in math and science courses but that is no guarantee that the study of human affairs ought to be conducted in the same...
...forced to make unpopular decisions, Trudeau is expected to call a general election at the first opportunity, in hopes of improving on his government's minority position in the House of Commons. Such a move may pay politically, but the burden of an election campaign will certainly add to the already considerable problems facing Canada's unconventional man in his first difficult weeks of power...
...until the early 1800s did Dutch colonialists examine this strange mound and discover the temple. They did little except to add a teahouse to what appeared to be the main stupa of the complex. Then in 1907, a Dutch military engineer named T. Van Erp began digging out the ancient ruins. Van Erp laid bare the magnificent carvings and in four years reconstructed Borobudur in its entirety. Only the floors were new. The rest was all there to be put back into place, including some 3,000 pieces of statuary, 432 balustrade niches and 72 latticed stupas, each with...