Word: borrowings
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...press statement at the end of August, interim CEO Robert Melzer said that the rating won’t have a large impact on the immediate future of the group and that the downgrade was not unexpected. Melzer said that there were no plans to borrow more money, and that the bonds were insured so that there is little risk to current bond holders...
...Jamie Foxx, the host of the evening (the verdict: better than the Wayans Bros. but not as good as Chris Rock) did a cool, classy job of lifting the spirits of the crowd during the commercial break. By the time the cameras were rolling again, the crowd was, to borrow his words, ready to "celebrate life." Which is just a fancy way of saying everyone was ready to party...
...name, only Mitch Daniels could have come up with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus - the "lock box" - to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity...
With the $1.3 trillion tax cut signed into law (and the Federal Government already forced to borrow to pay for the tax-rebate checks just now going out), you would think Congress had finished writing checks for a while. Wrong. In the energy bill passed by the House last week lies a hidden plum: $34 billion in tax cuts over 10 years, mostly going to--yep--oil-and gas-exploration firms. The House-passed patients' bill of rights also contains some little-noticed tax breaks: $16 billion over 10 years for small businesses and folks who save for medical care...
...billion Amount U.S. government will have to borrow to cover the income-tax refund, because of the economic slump...