Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading the law literally, has underwritten the construction of many luxury buildings. Even if such buildings replace slums, they offer no new housing for uprooted residents, who must move to other slum neighborhoods. And some of the projects, like the Barrington Plaza apartments in a high-rent section of Los Angeles, are not even near blighted areas...
...book will be 200 pages long and will sell or $1.95. It will carry advertising, and may be underwritten by one or more large companies. The first printing is estimated at 40,000 copies...
...measure of their success, Boston College recently opened a permanent Center for the Study of Franchise Distribution. It is being underwritten by 200 firms, including Lapin's Pancake Houses, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Carvel ice cream, Mister Donut of America, Inc., Western Auto, Midas Mufflers and Chicago's A to Z Rental, which rents everything for the home from axes to zaxes (a special cutter for roofing tiles...
...Taiwan's dealings with Viet Nam, which totaled $40 million last year and represented 9% of all exports, may reach $55 million this year. Hong Kong has doubled its Vietnamese business from $1,650,000 to $3,160,000 in a year. And most of the trade is underwritten...
Furthermore, Brewster said, the corporation would not favor admitting women if it meant reducing the number of men in Yale College, and insisted that the addition of women would have to be underwritten by "sufficient funds to maintain the quality of the university...