The press said Jayne Mansfield was decapitated when her car rear-ended a semi. It wasn’t true, but a movement arose to put safety bars on the rear of every truck. And they’re called . . .
An “amortization” in real estate speak is a payback schedule often given to first-time home buyers. In 1960 and 1970 America, you kept it with your mortgage agreement with the wild hope that someday the balance would be zero dollars and you would have achieved the American Dream – a home of your own.