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blockbusting |
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blockbusting An illegal and discriminatory practice in which someone stampedes another into selling or granting a listing contract by trading on fears the neighborhood is changing with respect to race, sex, religion, color, disability, family status, or ancestry of the inhabitants. (For more detailed information,visit the U.S.Housing and Urban Development Web site at www.hud.gov and search on the term “blockbusting.”) See panic peddling. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Unusually, perhaps, for such a consciously blockbusting project, it draws together ancient and modern, the archaeological and the immediate, with exhibition spaces for Nuragic and contemporary art, together with a library, congress hall, offices and retail space. Curators have lately been slicing the blockbusting Impressionists from every thematic angle: horse races, portraits, cityscapes, Mediterranean views. If this life is my blockbusting movie, then I have a lot more important jazz to worry about. |
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