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Fannie Mae made its standards more stringent because a record number of borrowers with mortgages bought by the agency are defaulting on their loans. Explains Chairman David Maxwell: "It does no favor to home buyers in the market we serve--low, moderate and middle income--to saddle them with obligations they cannot carry." UNIONS Grape Boycott, Round...
...Andres study not only challenges the conventional wisdom, it says that men and women of the same height should weigh roughly the same. This relaxed attitude toward weight gain does not find favor with the medical establishment. The American Heart Association has stated that it finds even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients...
...reforms. Yes, that's true, but compared with seven years ago [when there were strong objections to the agricultural reforms], the differing views are on a much smaller scale. When we first started introducing the reforms in the countryside, there were quite a few people who were not in favor of reform. In the first two years, a third of the regions of China were still not so enthusiastic and were left behind in starting reforms. So they waited a year, and when they found that other regions were doing quite well and starting reforms, they started to catch...
...U.S.S.R. is in favor of more consular exchanges and open to the idea of periodic summits, but civil aviation talks may flounder owing to a disagreement over ticket prices and the landing fees the Soviets are requesting...
...press who has served five Soviet leaders dating back to Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. He has headed the Communist Party's International Information Department since 1978, a job that makes him the General Secretary's top spokesman. After Gorbachev ascended to power, Zamyatin was rumored to be out of favor, but he has reappeared on the job in a dramatic way, managing the spectacular presummit public relations blitz that has put the Soviets in good position for the Geneva meeting...