Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THEFT FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT IS A THEFT FROM YOU. So read the stern red-and-white warning signs put up by federal officials on thousands of abandoned homes across the U.S. The signs are meant to discourage vandals, but in fact the houses themselves have all too frequently been used and discarded in a loan-fraud scheme that costs the Federal Housing Administration-and U.S. taxpayers-dearly. Last week the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees FHA operations, estimated that since 1968 the Government has lost $1.4 billion on the foreclosure and resale of homes originally bought with...
...addiction, the whole thing. What could be the only fictional film about the indochina War (we exclude The Green Berels, which was so outrageous that French students would systematically take to the streets whenever it opened in a given city, and drive it out of town), under Milius's stern hands, might turn out to be the nightmare film of the century...
...stern test for democratic leadership. At some point in the current recovery, it may be necessary for the Government to switch to a restrictive policy even when unemployment remains uncomfortably high, inflation is decelerating and the need for any restraint at all is not readily apparent to the voters...
...seems clear that some of the old values and restraints have been battered by recent upheavals?war, riots, assassinations, racial strife, situational ethics, the youth rebellion. As disillusionment sets in, fewer and fewer Americans look to the churches, schools or Washington for moral leadership. Stern observers of today's widespread ethical torpor tend to agree with the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne: "A society gets the criminals it deserves...
...Gutted Bill. The threat of another price increase should have moved the U.S. to take stern measures to conserve oil. Just the opposite happened last week. Acting irresponsibly, the House gutted an energy bill...