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...Creative financing," which was pioneered in California, has doubtless led to some of the problems. This type of loan legerdemain encourages the use of medium-term borrowing and schemes such as variable rate mortgages and shared appreciation between the bank and the buyer. But creative financing has become necessary for many would-be homeowners, contends Willard Sprague, an economist at San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank. Says he: "Only about 10% of California households can afford to buy the median-priced home [$105,800 in California] with conventional financing...
Hell he is right. In the photographs, one of the women models is smiling ridiculously to a Masai warrior. She looks vaguely surreal here, like an orange tree might, or perhaps a Scandinavian child. She seems to be saying something to them,though doubtless she doesn't know the language. Just as doubtless, the Masai warriors don't know what is going on. She seems to be saying: "Beauty is only skin deep... But then again...
...picture that will remain longest in most viewers' minds will doubtless be the simulation of a 15-megaton thermonuclear fireball devastating Omaha. The $87,000 worth of special effects lavished on that sequence conveyed as much vivid horror as any megabucks sci-fi movie. But it would be a pity if that memory distracted attention from other merits of the CBS News series The Defense of the United States, which aired for an hour on each of five successive nights last week. Complex issues, like that of high-technology vs. simpler weapons, usually the preserve of scholarly tomes, were...
Even the most modest steps toward returning power to the states will doubtless provoke a severe clash between Reagan and Congress, a confrontation that already seems to be brewing. House committees last week not only ignored the Administration's block-grant philosophy, but, according to Office of Management and Budget officials, also made "phony, even fraudulent" spending cuts that will inevitably be reversed-such as the elimination of 10,000 post offices. The solution being considered at OMB: introducing in Congress a detailed, 4,000-page Administration alternative to the House Budget Committee's reconciliation package, complete with...
...matter how fast the U.S. deports the Haitians, their bleak prospects will doubtless continue to prod them toward a country that does not want them. "I will try again and keep trying," asserted one man still in Haiti and eager to leave...