Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demand has been fanned by low loan rates most of this year. Conventional mortgage rates now average 7.6%. Moreover, to attract ever more buyers, the Federal Housing Administration has determinedly held to a ceiling of 7% on mortgages that it will insure. To raise their return to the prevailing market rates, lenders have used a complex device of charging added fees on these FHA mortgages. In order to keep the cost of money down and housing starts up, the Government has lately begun, in effect, to pay the lender part of these fees. Increasingly incensed critics charge that this policy...
...large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some neighbors across the way. The police are called and cause so much confusion breaking into the apartment that J. has an easy chance...
Peretz shares a general Faculty concern that McGovern will be unable to attract wide-scale support, and he distrusts Muskie's political judgment. Referring to Muskie's trip to South Vietnam in 1967, during which the Senator said that the Thieu victory of that year was a free election. Peretz says: "I'm like the Old Baptists: people can redeem themselves with secular versions of penance. But this is pretty late. I would be very wary of the type of judgments Muskie would make...
...first complimenting Hartman on his work as director of the UFS and then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair the Planning Department, Kilbridge undercut every tenet of Harvard's academic tradition...
...from Britain, Switzerland's Oerlikon, South Africa's De Beers, The Netherlands' Verolme United Shipyards and Germany's Liebherr. The Irish Industrial Development Authority, under Michael Killeen, 43, a former head of the Irish Export Board, will spend about $70 million this year to help attract and finance still more new industry and modernize existing plants...