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Racial discrimination in the urban mortgage market of New York is more widespread than many have believed, according to Robert Schafer, associate professor of City Planning for the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...study released Thursday, Schafer said race is a major consideration in mortgage lending in many areas of the state. He said the likelihood of mortgage denial is twice as great for blacks as whites...
...Schafer studied five areas: New York City and Nassau and Suffolk countries. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. Only data from the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area contradicted allegations of discrimination...
...APPROACH seemed more consciously campy, and the actors really forced it (especially Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, better known as the Howells). There was one good line--Ginger said the tidal wave sounded like a "permanent wave"--but I don't remember the old show having a lot of puns, either. The original was so infantile that at times it seemed to belong to a different universe, like an Ionesco play; on reflection one could almost call some of it "inspired." But Rescue was so forced that it just got boring, which is what the old show never...
Richard F. Schafer Anchorage, Alaska