Word: main
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...main problem seems to be errors by deficient computer programs and poorly trained employees. As many borrowers were charged too little as too much. Mortgage lenders say Geddes needs more data before drawing such sweeping conclusions. But his efforts have already brought change. Lenders are more carefully scrutinizing their procedures, federal examiners are auditing loan portfolios, and some consumers have filed class-action lawsuits...
...sons and daughters of thirty- and fortysomething parents raised during the activist 1960s. "Environmentalism is youthful now in the way that feminism was in the late '60s," writes Rosalind Coward in the British magazine New Statesman & Society. "It is the dominant political concern among the young, the main place where perceived discontents are articulated...
Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard scientists found that women who had beef, lamb or pork as a daily main dish ran 2 1/2 times the risk of developing colon cancer as did those who ate the meats less than once a month. One surprise: eating dairy products, which also tend to be high in animal fats, did not appear to increase the disease risk. The conclusions are drawn from a study of 88,751 nurses that was begun in 1980. The women filled out diet and medical questionnaires and were resurveyed at intervals over the next...
...this might be the future of malls in America," says Terry Dunham, publisher of Value Retail News, which tracks the outlet industry from Clearwater, Fla. Western has plans for four more discount malls: near Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Ontario, Calif. Not to be outdone, Benderson Development Co., Western's main rival in megamall retailing, is building what it touts as "the largest manufacturers' mall in the universe" near Niagara Falls. The 200-store extravaganza, scheduled to open in 1992, features a Fashion Avenue of stores of the most exclusive designers and "Epcot-like life-size video games...
Both psychiatrists and psychologists insist that their main concern lies not with their pocketbooks but with their patients' welfare. If that is true, then experiments like the one at Walter Reed will settle the debate over who should prescribe psychoactive drugs. But if power and profits are the real issues, the battle between the two sides could go on for a long time...