Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy make two such dubious investments? The answer seems to be that both companies were contractors on work that has been judged vital to the national security-and thus, when they exhausted their ability to borrow privately, they were able to make offers that the Navy could not refuse. If the Pentagon had scuttled Gap as the builder of a fire-control system in the new $1.4 billion DE1052 model destroyer program, another contractor, according to a Navy official, "would have had to gear up and in the long run spend a hell of a lot more" than the Navy...
...deficit, the Government has been pumping many billions more into the economy than it has taken out in taxes. The Federal Reserve Board helped by expanding the money supply about 7.4% last year, making it considerably easier than in the previous few years for most businessmen and consumers to borrow...
Even when ransom is recovered, there is some cost to the lines because they usually must borrow the money from banks, which charge premium interest rates on such high-risk loans. One company is in financial difficulty because of ransom payments. Southern Airways gave $2,000,000 in November to Havana-bound hijackers, and the cash has been confiscated by Fidel Castro's government. Southern officials will not comment on how seriously they will be hurt if the money is not given back, but the line's balance sheet provides a clue. As of June 30, the carrier...
...with television, sex books and the Good Life for the raddled reader's attention. No matter. Raddled or not, readers should ignore the flaws. Swallow the magic apples. Brush up on terza rima (to identify those snippets of The Inferno that Gardner can't keep from including). Borrow a French dictionary (to translate Gardner's morsels of French). But press on at all costs to the end. The masterpiece to be found there is Clumly's final speech on law and order, which shapes and caps the book as Molly Bloom's soliloquy shapes...
...largely through shrewd acquisitions by their holding companies of independent banks and mortgage companies. Unlike the $20 billion giants, the medium-sized regional banks are small enough to avoid antitrust litigation, yet big enough to provide sound management and a wide array of services for people who want to borrow, save or invest money...