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Overtly discriminatory practices like redlining that kept minorities from buying homes in white neighborhoods or getting credit to start a business has evolved into mortgage lenders targeting minority neighborhoods with predatory, subprime loans with teaser rates and exploding interest payments.
Rep. Barbara Lee: Race Is Still a Factor in America Rep. Barbara Lee 2011
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Overtly discriminatory practices like redlining that kept minorities from buying homes in white neighborhoods or getting credit to start a business has evolved into mortgage lenders targeting minority neighborhoods with predatory, subprime loans with teaser rates and exploding interest payments.
Rep. Barbara Lee: Race Is Still a Factor in America Rep. Barbara Lee 2011
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Overtly true in the “bombs away” sense, but also true in a more subtle way since pigeons and besuited executives are both are more numerous in cities.
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Overtly discriminatory practices like redlining that kept minorities from buying homes in white neighborhoods or getting credit to start a business has evolved into mortgage lenders targeting minority neighborhoods with predatory, subprime loans with teaser rates and exploding interest payments.
Rep. Barbara Lee: Race Is Still a Factor in America Rep. Barbara Lee 2011
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Overtly Islamist parties such as the Jamaat-e-Islami have rarely commanded more than a fraction of the national vote.
Confronting the Myth of 'Moderate Pakistan' Sadanand Dhume 2011
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Overtly literal yet Hitchcockian, a nightmare and a metaphor for liberation, "Passage" succeeds more as craft than as sculpture.
Soaring Heights, A Sense of Horses Lance Esplund 2011
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Overtly talking about “McCarthyism” or depicting a desire for transparency in govt. as somehow indicating a crypto-McCarthyite interest serves to deflect from the high and holy office attorneys too often imagine themselves holding.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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Michael B: Overtly talking about “McCarthyism” or depicting a desire for transparency in govt. as somehow indicating a crypto-McCarthyite interest serves to deflect from the high and holy office attorneys too often imagine themselves holding.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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Overtly branding our efforts as sponsored by the U.S. government -- as the Obama administration wants us to do -- only makes our jobs harder and more dangerous.
Why American aid workers in Pakistan need to keep a low profile Samuel A. Worthington 2010
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Overtly discriminatory practices like redlining that kept minorities from buying homes in white neighborhoods or getting credit to start a business has evolved into mortgage lenders targeting minority neighborhoods with predatory, subprime loans with teaser rates and exploding interest payments.
Rep. Barbara Lee: Race Is Still a Factor in America Rep. Barbara Lee 2011
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