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Federal programs aiding the rehabilitation of single-family housing
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1986
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This paper provides a short summary of programs for the rehabilitation of single-family homes in urban and rural areas. While these programs are targeted to low-income households, they aid moderate-income households as well. The Federal agencies involved in the loan process, loan limitations, and eligibility requirements for each program are discussed.
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The 1986 wheat poll
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1986
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The Food Security Act of 1985 (PL 99-198) required the Secretary of Agriculture to poll U.S. wheat producers on whether they favor mandatory limits on their production in exchange for higher market prices. The nonbinding poll, being conducted in early July, has resurrected one of the most controversial and divisive issues of the 1985 farm policy debate. This report describes the poll and examines arguments for and against mandatory supply controls.
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Milton's house of God: the invisible and visible church
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1993
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In Milton's House of God, Stephen R. Honeygosky examines the ecclesial center of a representative sampling of John Milton's prose written throughout his life. Interrelating this body of literature with Reformation and post-Reformation history and theology, Honeygosky argues that for Milton the two major dimensions of church (the invisible and the visible) have an inextricable, ongoing, intersecting-though-not-equivalent relationship. He shows that it is the dynamic interaction between the two out of which Milton's entire ecclesiology proceeds. Milton's House of God explores in depth Milton's concept of church and its relation to the True Church, which he came to believe was always invisibly and spiritually gathered because of its mystic incorporation with Christ. Honeygosky discusses the new visible manifestations of the True Church during the seventeenth century the doctrine that can be distilled even from Milton's not explicitly doctrinal tracts and the evident and consistent verbal pattern that he used to feed and foster a Radical-Reformist communion. Additionally, Honeygosky examines the transmutation of terms important for Milton. He demonstrates how Milton takes such traditional ecclesiological words as worship, separation, schism, license, heresy, holiness, Scripture, and Sacrament, rejects their standard usage, then empties the terms of their expected import before renovating and reappropriating them once again. Honeygosky concludes that the fundamental Miltonic definition of church is the individual believing reader of sacred texts who has become an interfusion of sacred place, text, and action - a veritable House of God. Thus, Milton's ecclesiology results in a new mythic form derived from and designated for mid-seventeenth-century English culture. The believing and reading individual is the most basic House of God, the embodied consolidation of Church and Scripture and Sacrament.
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Federal education programs serving students with limited proficiency in the english language
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1984
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This report includes information on Federal education programs which provide educational and related services to children and youth who have a limited proficiency in the English language. Program descriptions, as well as the estimated number of program participants, grants awarded, and Federal funds used for these activities, are also included.
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Insurance for blind persons: Background and pending legislation
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1985
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Congress is considering legislation to address the allegation that blind persons are discriminated against by the insurance industry. Spokespersons for insurance companies have taken the position that State laws and regulations are adequate and that Federal legislation is not needed.
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Election campaigns: Selected references
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1984
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This annotated bibliography of books and articles covers election campaign management, political consultants, use of the media by candidates, and press coverage of election campaigns. It includes selected material dating from 1972.
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United States merchandise trade and trade balances with Japan 1960-1986
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1987
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International trade may consist of goods and services. This table shows the value of merchandise historically traded between the United States and Japan as collected by the Bureau of the Census, from original documentation processed by the Customs Service. The balance of trade reflects the surplus or deficit resulting from a comparison of a country's exports and imports of merchandise only. The balance of trade does not include other items such as services and capital movements which are accounted for in the balance of payments.
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