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...points to a potentially powerful legal tool for achieving these goals: the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It requires banks to make loans to low-income individuals or poor-risk companies in their own neighborhoods. It has been widely used to counter mortgage redlining and has proved a boon to the nation's 40-plus black banks...
...PROSPECT: CABLE SYSTEMS could switch to an a la carte system of billing, in which subscribers build customized cable menus channel by channel, rather than paying a lump sum for an entire "tier." Such a system would probably be ; a boon for narrow-gauge networks (golf enthusiasts would presumably be willing to fork over a buck or two a month for a channel aimed at them). But many general-interest services, from the Weather Channel to USA Network, would surely see their circulation -- and thus their ad revenue -- drop if viewers were forced to choose and pay for them individually...
Giroux, the spokesperson for the Cambridge schools, agrees that the program's goal of educating bilingual students will be a boon when they reach the increasingly international job market...
...loss for the Law School and a boon to the country," said Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy
...completely bought into their own hero worship. Perhaps it's precisely the I-told-you-so thrill that earned Hillary her own magazine. And if the editors aren't gleefully awaiting the First Lady's eventual fall from grace, maybe they should be. A tainted Hillary would be a boon for subscriptions--just ask the former editors of the "Quayle Quarterly...