Word: expander
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...credit designed to lure them into the market, the FHA insured a full 49% of their mortgages. In October, Congress renewed a higher limit on the size of FHA loans (now up to $729,750), first put in place last year, to allow the agency to expand into pricier markets. "The government may need to inject billions of dollars into the FHA, but the alternative - another perturbation in the housing market, more foreclosure aid, more bank bailouts - could have cost dramatically more," says housing economist Thomas Lawler...
...want to introduce new technologies, produce energy for the city, …[and] expand the public transportation system in the city,” he said...
...this unconventional selection of the author, the English Department is trying to expand the focus of the semi-annual lecture series beyond poetry, English Professor of Poetry Jorie Graham said...
...effort towards collaboration is a transition away from the emphasis on growth that has led the 370-year-old system to expand into one of the top five largest libraries in the world...
...department of aging in Baltimore County, Maryland, "There won't be enough spots for them" in the country's overwhelmed nursing-home system. Appreciating the magnitude of the coming crisis, the U.S. government has begun to respond. Two new initiatives - Nursing Home Diversion and Money Follows the Person - expand subsidies for home elder care, and the Veterans Health Administration has just put in effect its own similar initiative. "The whole trend will be into home care, because nursing homes are too expensive," Eppel says, noting that nursing-home care in the U.S. costs about $85,000 annually per resident...