Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Housing Administration was set up to help people buy homes. But in pursuing that popular mission, the agency seems to be rivaling the Internal Revenue Service in its ability to make enemies. The FHA's troubles stem from the depressed economic conditions in several parts of the U.S., especially in states like Texas and Colorado that have been hurt by the decline of energy prices. Last fiscal year alone, the FHA's parent agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, had to take possession of 64,800 homes because the owners defaulted on FHA-guaranteed mortgages...
...Professor of Government Roger Porter, a Reagan White House appointee, may be asked back to Washington in the advent of a GOP triumph. This semester, Porter is teaching a popular course on the presidency that may presage his return to the capital...
...held without trial under South Africa's 27-month-old state-of-emergency laws, slipped away from guards while receiving physical therapy at Johannesburg Hospital. After making their way across the city, they took refuge in the U.S. consulate on the eleventh floor of the bustling Kine Center, a popular shopping and office complex...
...instilled by peer pressure or insisted upon by academic administrators, dress codes are in every school. Bicycle shorts, those shiny, shape-hugging racer bottoms made of Lycra, are strongly discouraged in New York public and private schools, tolerated at South High School in Minneapolis, where they are currently very popular, but dismissed as flashy by students at Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C. Traditionalists, who would not wear such shorts even on an Exercycle, claim that standard uniforms (blazers for boys, pleated hopscotch skirts for girls) have social as well as practical value. For one thing, they ease the economic...
...among kids, as long as it is not acid washed (a waning fad for bleaching out color) and as long as it is shaped into something baggy. "Kids won't wear tight jeans because they don't want to be uncomfortable," says Paul Marciano, advertising director of the wildly popular Guess? jeans line. For next season, he adds, "we have banished ornamentation. We have a clean look...