Word: maes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lila Mae Watson, Whitehead's hero, is an aging black elevator inspector in an unnamed eastern metropolis that resembles a Kafkaesque New York City. The bureaucracy of the elevator workers dominates the city government. That bureaucracy is divided between two main factions that vie with each other for political influence: the so-called Empiricists, a dry, hard-headed bunch who do their jobs with scientific precision; and the Intuitionists like Watson, who work by instinct, by feel. James Fulton, the Intuitionists' patron saint, is a deceased pioneer of "verticality" whose books contain cryptic, Masonic meditations that seem to address...
Some 200,000 Americans should have an easier time affording a home come Jan. 1. Fannie Mae, the government-chartered mortgage financier, just raised its 1999 single-family loan limit to $240,000, from the current $227,000. That means more borrowers will have access to the lower rates and fees of Fannie Mae-backed mortgages...
...energized this state. Not only did he bring out a lot of young people to vote, he has also inspired the rest of the population as well--at least those who are fed up with "politics as usual." And no attention has been given nationally to his running mate, Mae Schunk, a white-haired elementary school teacher. She is 64 years old and Ventura's point person on education. What a combo! DOREEN B. RENTZ St. Paul, Minn...
While L.B.'s moral code was complicated, his zeal was not. When his biggest star at the time, Jack Gilbert, used the word whore in reference to his co-star Mae Murray, and then--gasp--about his own mother, the president of MGM rushed from around his desk and knocked down his million-dollar meal ticket...
...have moved low enough. Today, a 30-year fixed jumbo rate is about 7.25%, vs. only 6.75% for smaller mortgages. (I'm not convinced, by the way, that risks to lenders warrant that kind of premium. And with home values rising, the all-powerful, government-supported mortgage buyers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, should set the jumbo threshold higher...