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...folksy and businesslike, he denied the Government's charges that he had misapplied bank funds and filed misleading financial records to obtain about $1.3 million in loans. He stoutly defended his banking practices, reminiscing about the lesson he had learned in his first banking job, as a $90-a-month teller at the Calhoun (Ga.) First National Bank. One of his customers, Elsie Goforth, regularly put up a Guernsey cow named Spot as collateral on $100 loans. Once she defaulted and, to Lance's horror, showed up at the bank to surrender Spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bert Testifies | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...turned to an attorney, who sought shelter for them under the recently overhauled federal Bankruptcy Act. The Hobsons paid a $60 filing fee, and soon afterward a judge approved a three-year plan calling for repayment of 16? on every dollar owed to unsecured creditors as part of $150-a-month payments that also cover the secured creditors. Under the plan's terms, the couple will still be able to afford a $140 monthly tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: In Search of Life After Debt | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...such as New York, Chicago and even Kansas City are far below the 5% to 8% that Realtors consider is needed for renters to have a reasonable choice at a fair price. So tight is the market in Manhattan that as an old woman lay dying in her $400-a-month, two-bedroom Gramercy Park apartment, 374 people signed up for the prospective vacancy. It was rented for $1,600 not 15 minutes after she was pronounced dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Playing Rental Roulette | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...women, 300 Hispanics, and 200 blacks to state posts. And Brown has shown imagination, proposing creative solutions conventional politicians would not even consider: he sponsored a plan to underwrite physician's malpractice insurance in exchange for a guarantee of medical services to the poor, and demanded the same $65-a-month pay increase for all civil servants, janitors and judges alike...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Suffering a Change in Fashion | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

...competition, the 1980 Games involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased for $75,000 and rented for half that figure for the 13-day duration of the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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