Word: responded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drastic shortage of mortgage money because of the limit of 4½% interest on Government-backed mortgages v. up to 6% on conventional mortgage loans. Said San Francisco Builder Carl Gellert: "Congress next year should raise interest rates on VA mortgages, making them flexible so they can respond to the tight-money market. Money is like any other commodity. If you make the terms attractive, you're going to bring more money into the market. At this time 4½% simply isn't attractive to a lender." Chicago builders doubted the program would affect housing around metropolitan areas...
...right. Some of you feel strongly to the contrary...." This statement was no doubt aimed as much at Northern newspaper readers as at the Arkansans who happened to be present. But, meanwhile, its successful reception suggested that the Southerners, or at least a large segment of them, might well respond nationally to honesty and a little grit...
...difficulty with the diplomatic doctrine that Nehru likes to call "nonalignment" is that it has no philosophic basis, no platform; it can only respond. Since the positive objectives of its adherents vary widely, neutralist powers, as Brioni proved, are rarely able to agree on anything but negatives...
Warning summer school students who are not familiar with the Cambridge parking regulations, Breen said that "persistent violators and those who do not respond to traffic tickets can expect to have their cars towed away." He also pointed out that the police kept the license numbers of out-of-state violators on file "for future reference...
...confusion among the Communists as to how to respond to Poznan had its counterpart outside the Iron Curtain, where admiration for the brave resisters was tempered by the sad realization that they must pay for their defiance and could not be helped. This very human reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that...