Revenue bonds for housing finance authority: hearing and markup before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on H.R. 12749 and H.R. 13243 ... June 20 and 27, 1978 |
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Page 266 - If the applicant is an eleemosynary institution or other nonprofit enterprise : Provided, however, That this provision shall not be construed to bar financial assistance to a cooperative if it carries on a business activity...
Page 216 - Government can deal and should deal with blindly selfish men. But that is a comparatively small part — the easier part — of our problem. The larger, more important, and more difficult part of our problem is to deal with men who are not selfish and who are good citizens, but who cannot see the social and economic consequences of their actions in a modern economically interdependent community.
Page 30 - Act, 1966," section 638, which specified that "none of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay any recipient of a grant for the conduct of a research project an amount equal to as much as the entire cost of such project," and any similar later enactments.
Page 268 - If the effect of the granting of the financial assistance will be to encourage monopoly or will be inconsistent with the accepted standards of the American system of free competitive enterprise...
Page 265 - Through the disposal at a fair price of assets not required by the applicant in the conduct of its existing business or not reasonably necessary to its potential healthy growth...
Page 215 - The power of a few to manage the economic life of the Nation must be diffused among the many or be transferred to the public and its democratically responsible government. If prices are to be managed and administered, if the Nation's business is to be allotted by plan and not by competition, that power should not be vested in any private group or cartel, however benevolent its professions profess to be.
Page 221 - It should disseminate current statistical and other information regarding market conditions and be in a position to warn against the dangers of temporary overproduction and excessive inventories as well as against the dangers of shortages and bottle-neck conditions and to encourage the maintenance of orderly markets.
Page 265 - Bank refusals to advance credit should not be considered the full test of unavailability of credit and. where there is knowledge or...
Page 210 - Today many Americans ask the uneasy question : Is the vociferation that our liberties are in danger justified by the facts? Today's answer on the part of average men and women in every part of the country is far more accurate than it would have been in 1929 for the very simple reason that during the past 9 years we have been doing a lot of common-sense thinking.