Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader charge of "brainwashing" may be closer to the truth, at least in the sense of relentless exposure to the sect's propaganda. At special communes for "babes" (new converts), the apprentice memorizes the requisite Bible passages by reading them aloud while simultaneously listening to them on tape. Bible texts also blare from loudspeakers all day long. Each new convert takes a biblical name, usually from the Old Testament (Caleb, Shadrach, Deborah), and drops his old name as a remnant of the past...
Cutting Red Tape. The FHA helped spur the first surge of suburb building in the early postwar years. But in the 1950s, savings and loan associations, the chief source of housing credit, began to shun FHA-insured loans because the agency had a rigid ceiling-5% when MGIC started-on the interest that lenders could charge to home buyers. By offering private insurance, Karl enabled S and Ls to obtain higher interest rates on secure loans and still cut the down payment below 20%. Moreover, Karl successfully slashed through the FHA's red tape. MGIC guarantees to approve...
...than Canada. By far the largest majority of these are deserters, principally from Army bases in Germany. Drugs have been a nagging problem in the major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...
...professor needing some computer time or technical assistance to further his research could apply to the fund, Bok said. This would eliminate the unnecessary red tape and waste of time involved in the application to a foundation for a small grant which would probably be turned down...
...however, does not intend proposals for grants from the fund for experimental education to get bogged down in red tape...