Word: blanchard
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Most of the 90 lawsuits involve loans made to students through the U.S. Department of Education or the Veterans Administration, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Hugh W. Blanchard...
...battalion of attorneys who will continue battling the decision. The firm has labeled the Bombardier financing "predatory and noncompetitive" in complaints filed with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. The struggle is also being waged in Congress, where Michigan Senator Donald Riegle Jr. and Congressman James Blanchard have introduced bills to aid U.S. firms that compete with foreign bidders. Says Blanchard: "This decision makes it apparent that we cannot rely on the discretion of the Administration to see that U.S. industries are able to compete on an equal footing with foreign firms...
Presidents have been intrigued and sustained by events in the air since the nation's birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer...
...Githler III, 24, who dropped out of college in 1976 to devote his full time to real estate speculation in Florida. Githler organized his first International Investors Forum in San Francisco three years ago, attracting 1,400 people at $450 each. The superstar of seminar promoters is James U. Blanchard III, 37. He organized his first seminar in 1974 to help drum up support for his personal campaign to legalize investment in gold...
...Blanchard charges more than $1,000 a person for his elegant sessions, which are held in Bermuda and other resort spots...