Word: ls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1950s, savings and loan associations, the chief source of housing credit, began to shun FHA-insured loans because the agency had a rigid ceiling-5% when MGIC started-on the interest that lenders could charge to home buyers. By offering private insurance, Karl enabled S and Ls to obtain higher interest rates on secure loans and still cut the down payment below 20%. Moreover, Karl successfully slashed through the FHA's red tape. MGIC guarantees to approve or reject a home loan insurance application within 24 hours; the FHA takes a minimum of a month because it conducts...
Karl, whose lawyer-like voice cadences belie the missionary spirit of his words, had to spend years evangelizing in order to sell his idea to state legislatures, many of which had passed laws forbidding the private insuring of mortgage loans, and to S and Ls. He proved so persuasive that New York is now the only state that does not license private mortgage insurers like MGIC. Moreover, MGIC has inspired seven other companies to begin selling the same kind of insurance in recent years. In all, the eight companies carry about as much insurance as the FHA. That fact leads...
...sulking and egoistic." The woman judge, Marie-Thérèse Chesnelong, disagreed. Observed she: "Mme. Franconville claims that her husband, despite his advanced age, showed a devouring sexual appetite, considering his spouse an object at his complete, total and permanent disposal." Judge Chesnelong said that Ismaëls conduct ran "from tenderness to the most refined bestiality. He could not pass near his spouse without trying to caress or kiss her, or to lift her skirt with a view to touching her. Several times a day he pursued her with assiduity, covering her with kisses on her entire...
...familiar feat, and all the others, which necessarily make up a large portion of his story, Parkinson customarily confines himself to a somewhat plodding, precis narrative. As a result, his biography may be mainly read by Hornblower scholars who wish, as it were, to set their very stuns'ls in pursuit of their elusive literary quarry. As for the rest of us, one is put in mind of the French Gourmet Brillat-Savarin, who was once offered grapes for dinner. "Non, merci" he briskly replied, "je ne prends pas mon vin en pilules...
...rocket was launched with similar expert predictions of failure. In 1940 the editor of the Scientific American wrote Willy Ley, prophet of space travel, that the notion of a rocket bomb was "too farfetched to be considered." In December 1945, even though Germany's V-ls and V-2s had already terrorized London, Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, said that intercontinental missiles would not be possible for a "very long period of time." The American public, he impatiently contended, should not even think about them. Only last December, Dr. Bentley Glass...