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...Administration plan feared that if private companies took over the functions of the FHA, they might set tougher standards for mortgage insurance and exclude more people from home ownership. Disposing of the FHA, said Warren Lasko, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, would be tantamount "to selling the American home buyer down the river...
Students should recognize what the majority is advocating: leaving question two blank is the tantamount to voting no. In order for the Council to represent the views of students, the second question needs 50 percent of the ballots cast. Not voting will tell the Council not to take a stand on divestment. By leaving the question blank one does not avoid taking a stand on whether the Undergraduate Council should address political issues. Question two may be subject to a variety of interpretations, but it can not be glibly avoided. The majority position would, indeed, "hoodwink" students into making...
...uniquely qualified talent. This omission reflects a blatant disregard for both the instructor's merits and students' earnest and repeated demands for such a course as Wu was willing to teach. The refusal to take an academic seriously, not in spite of ethnic differences but precisely for them, is tantamount to an attitude of tokenism...
Indeed, the new investment guidelines are tantamount to the U.S. sanctions for which Bok has so vigorously and "privately" lobbied--the same sanctions that he has repeatedly insisted belong within the sphere of the federal government...
...Paint PR as the personification of all that is right with, or heroized by, America. Leave Mondale in a position where an attack on Reagan is tantamount to an attack on America's idealized image of itself--where a vote against Reagan is, in some subliminal sense, a vote against a mythic "AMERICA...