Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kill or hurt people for money. That's greed. Maybe you'll want to buy me a gift or send me a case of champagne. You'd find out what I like. Maybe I'll want to borrow money from you sometime. See, "this thing" is like the second government. If politicians, doctors, lawyers, surgeons come to us for favors, there's got to be a reason. There's no justice in court for certain people, so they come to us. Maybe somebody is bothering a guy's wife or daughter, or he wants to borrow money to go into...
...arms merchants are looking for government help in getting out of the business, but in view of all the country's economic troubles, they are not hopeful. The ZTS Martin tank factory had to borrow $86 million to pay for tank production equipment that the communist government foisted on it, and director Jan Segla now wants Prague to forgive the debt. He also wants more financial / assistance to liquidate production lines designed to manufacture tanks. "The heritage of special production is why our factory is in such bad economic shape today," he says. "It's the labor of Sisyphus...
Saudi officials even claim that the country is slightly strapped for cash. The government has been forced to borrow $7 billion to fulfill commitments to the U.S.-led alliance. Despite a wartime surge in oil production from 5.5 million to 8 million bbl. a day, Western economists estimate a budget deficit of $25 billion this year. Skittish about both the expense and foreign entanglements, Fahd has reneged on an agreement to base a Pan-Arab defense force composed primarily of Egyptian and Syrian troops on Saudi soil. The plan envisaged an exchange of Egyptian and Syrian military manpower for economic...
...much more complex than that, however. Currently, the tax system in the U.S. provides tax relief for mortgages, thus increasing the amount homebuyers can borrow. This raises capital costs and decreases savings. The tax system also encourages the conversion of equity into debt on the corporate side, providing an incentive for businesses to--you guesses it--make short-term profits by selling off their investments in the U.S. and investing abroad...
...climb, they should focus on issues of prosperity and the increasingly uneven income distribution of the 1980s. The Democrats must avoid calling for massive increases in social spending and affirmative action programs, but popular Republican attacks on the tax-and-spenders can be answered with attacks on Republican "borrow-and-spend" economic policy...