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Mortgage money, like the middle class, has long been moving out of the cities and into the suburbs, where houses are newer, incomes higher and lending risks lower. Abetting this migration is a decades-old practice called "redlining," by which lending institutions map older city districts off limits for loans, mortgages and insurance. Would-be property buyers in redlined territory are denied loans regardless of their income or credit rating, and older city neighbor hoods quickly turn into newer slums...
...main thing, however, is that the TV movies offer variety, but not too much of it-a nice overall blend of familiar faces and situations with newer personalities and original twists. Convenient to turn on, easy to flick off, movies made for TV approximate the conditions under which all movies used to be chanced by audiences years ago. They are a small but genuine blessing for persistently optimistic people who can remember when at least half the pleasure of moviegoing derived precisely from the fact that no sense of cultural occasion was attached to that simple, inexpensive act. "Richard Schickel
...court in police headquarters following a 1969 shootout at a black church and immediately began releasing prisoners who were being held without counsel. Now presiding judge for a term of one year, Crockett is still tough on the cops, but has come to appear conservative by comparison with newer, still more outspoken judges...
Today, among the Portuguese the impulse to assimilate is giving way to an increased emphasis on ethnic heritage. Among the newer Portuguese immigrants, pride in national origin and customs is replacing the impulse to Americanize...
...figures at Mobil, Shell, Esso and Total. The decision fuels the other scandal, in which the same companies have been accused by Finance Minister Valery Giscard D'Estaing of playing favorites during the Arab oil crunch. They are charged with supplying longtime independent clients while cutting off some newer firms...