Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if the Government would permit it, most S. & L.s and mutual savings banks could not afford to raise the rates they pay to depositors. The bulk of their assets is invested in 20-year to 30-year mortgage loans at the much lower interest rates of bygone years. Insurance companies, normally the third biggest source of mortgage money, have increasingly withdrawn from the housing field. Wary of inflation and eager to improve their profits, they are funneling most of their property loans into projects in which they become part owners...
...standardize such items as the type of wiring, piping and plumbing. This not only inhibits architects and engineers from developing cost-cutting innovations (for lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe to pass the U.S. in making use of new technology, including precast concrete panels and high-precision assembly systems. in the construction of tower apartments...
...They've tried to squelch civil liberties in the military," said Mike Torney, spokesman for the G. I.-Civilian Alliance for Peace. He said that army regulations permit servicemen to receive leaflets and to demonstrate...
...present, Harvard is concentrating on cutting construction costs, hoping that the state authority will soon be underway and able to finance construction at an interest rate which will permit rents to be set low enough for most junior faculty members...
...February 1968, shortly after the North Korean capture of the Pueblo. Barrymaine had gone to North Korea aboard a Polish freighter to cover the Pueblo story, but was denied permission to go ashore. In Shanghai a few days later aboard the same freighter, he did get a shore permit. Once on China's soil, he made the mistake of accepting his guide's invitation to photograph at will. When he snapped torpedo boats in the Shanghai river, he was arrested...