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Fannie Mae made its standards more stringent because a record number of borrowers with mortgages bought by the agency are defaulting on their loans. Explains Chairman David Maxwell: "It does no favor to home buyers in the market we serve--low, moderate and middle income--to saddle them with obligations they cannot carry." UNIONS Grape Boycott, Round...
This month Spillane departed for a quieter job, running the Fairfax County, Va., schools. Garrity has decided that the school committee has the "willingness and ability" to run a desegregated system. But he has set such stringent conditions for his withdrawal that one education official described the plans as "Garrity-plus." Among them: a school's racial mix must reflect a district's population ratios, and the percentage of black staff must be roughly equivalent to the 23% black population of the city...
...political community, have levied moral demands and imperatives on each other that are untied to national citizenship or cultural belonging, and instead grounded in the intensely humbling experience of existing outside, or on the margins, of humanity. Concretely, this has produced amazingly inclusive conceptions of humanity and stringent demands on one’s responsibility to the world that are unmatched within the dominant American ethos...
...will be particularly stringent around large events, such as the upcoming Boston Marathon. Students caught breaking the law will be arrested and their parents notified by the university...
...turned out, he favored only the "most exact execution" of the council's directives, rebuffing not only traditionalists who derogated it but also those who saw it as a blueprint for church democracy. For all his support of freedom in the outside world, he enforced an ever more stringent conformity within...