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Several ways out of the bind are under consideration. H. Johannes Witteveen, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is setting up an "oil facility" that would accept deposits from oil producers and lend the money at bargain rates of about 7% interest to nations that have trouble paying for petroleum. Unfortunately, he has collected pledges for only $3 billion in deposits, an amount far too small to be of much help...
...other factors aside, how many undergraduates have passed their early adulthood? How many have done anything other than go to school for most of their lives? If the Redbook committee wants to break any new ground in enriching education through the composition of the student body, it should lend its weight to an extended concept of diversity, admitting people of all ages and of all walks of life to study at Harvard...
...foundations of the English government that protected all American freedoms--meant little to his opponents. They were engaged in resisting the power he defended, and what mattered to them was his argument's practical political effects--the extra strength a man of his background and position could lend what they considered an arbitrary power. Whatever similarities of ancestry, social rank and ideology they shared. Hutchinson and the Revolutionaries were on different sides--and so it happened that Mercy Otis Warren moved into his house at Milton, while Hutchinson filed off to different rooms...
Jumping On. Public officials have begun jumping on the greenlining band wagon too. With the backing of Illinois Governor Dan Walker and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the Illinois state housing development authority last month announced that it will lend $20 million to state savings and loan institutions for distribution in city neighborhoods. Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey has written to lenders in Milwaukee County condemning redlining. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, over seer of all federally chartered savings and loan associations, recently outlawed any geographic distribution of loans that discriminates against minority groups...
...parent cooperative, the parents involved in some of the decision-making and committed to giving the equivalent of 90 hours in some capacity to the school per year. Some teach a weekly course, some type and phone-call, others organize special events, some take field trips or lend out their houses, others work on the budget...