Word: passing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeal), almost all private lending institutions are willing to make them only at a big discount-that is to pay out about $9,200 for a mortgage with a face amount of $10,000. This has the effect of raising the return closer to 7%-a cost which homebuilders pass along to buyers disguised as a higher price for their homes. In a time of rising interest rates, when lending institutions demand increasing discounts, Fannie Mae faces a dilemma...
...originate from an object as small as a few hundred miles across; if pulsar 3 were much larger, the peaks would be gradual and less distinct. Using England's Jodrell Bank radio telescope, Astronomer Graham Smith discovered that the radio waves from pulsars are polarized, indicating that they pass through a magnetic field on their way to the earth...
...abolition of all grades and the substitution of a "personal assessment of progress" combined with pass-fail in all courses...
Does Dr. Blaine really think the students who answered his survey equate morality with sex? If this were true, why would so many of them be pushing for liberalization of restrictive parietal rules, which, if affected, would pass on to their future children an access to further "immorality?" And by the way, most would agree that the rise in illegitimate births is bad (if the illegitimate child is unwanted), but who's morally wrong in these cases? It's just possible that a few of those students who came out for morals meant that they wouldn't want their kids...
...mile Baker followed sophomore Royce Shaw for the first three laps. As Shaw tired, Baker unleashed a 58 second final quarter to pass Shaw on the final turn...