Word: subjects
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...lend in poor communities, caused the subprime mortgage lending binge that sparked the current troubles. It's certainly conceivable that Washington's long-held obsession with fostering home ownership helped fuel the housing bubble. But when the subprime lending binge really took off from 2003 to 2006, financial institutions subject to CRA weren't the ones leading the way. Neither were government-sponsored behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...when pressed for clarification (“How did the procedures change?”), Catalano tersely refused to discuss the subject further...
...centuries of a crueler sort of journey. The captivity and forced migration of Africans to the “new world” via European slaving ships is by far the most tragic and important Atlantic crossing in world history. While the slaves transported are beginning to be the subjects of admirable academic inquiry, historical silence in Ghana is indicative of limits of discourse on the subject of Atlantic slavery...
...quality Core. The Core office should have worked and should continue to work to make sure a significant number of Core offerings remain available during the transition. Many of the departmental courses are beyond the reach of the typical Core consumer who is not likely well-versed in the subject. The main pivot behind the Core Curriculum, as outlined by University President A. Lawrence Lowell was that“every educated person should know a little of everything and something well. Similarly, the goal of General Education is for us students to “understand [our]selves as products...
...King. In a recent NBC News poll, 52 percent of those surveyed believed that immigration is detrimental to America, while only 39 percent found immigration to be beneficial. The same poll found that a slight majority of Americans saw immigrants as an economic threat. Despite public imagination on the subject, immigration is far from an economic threat. In fact, immigrants are tremendously beneficial to the American economy in several ways. For one, the influx of immigrants allows America’s population to grow faster than that of other industrialized nations. This growth ensures a large supply of workers...