Word: borrowings
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...crime of such particularity creates particular moral obligations. One (to borrow from philosopher Emil Fackenheim) above all: Hitler must be allowed no posthumous victories. Hitler's singular project -- the destruction of the Jewish people -- must not be permitted its final success...
...about." The remaining $1.2 billion in economic aid is harder to justify now that Israel is flush. Foreign investment is flowing in, the growth rate is a phenomenal 6%, and the $10 billion in loan guarantees finally granted by George Bush last year has permitted Israel to borrow from private banks at favorable rates. The country is doing so well that the government has asked the Israel Bonds Organization to curtail sales; the loan guarantees are a much better way to raise capital...
...such regular intervals. I pointed out that Israel sports the Ateret Hacohanim, a group of believers so convinced of the imminence of the Messiah who will rebuild the Temple of Solomon that they spend their days studying the ancient laws of animal sacrifice. That way they'll be -- to borrow a phrase from George Bush's -- ready...
...years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...
...start, the project will be a long way from fulfilling Clinton's campaign promise "to give every American the right to borrow money for college." The President wants to begin the program this summer with a $15 million demonstration project covering 1,000 underprivileged students. By 1997 spending could grow to $3.4 billion for 100,000 young people. Clinton left the door open for expanding beyond 100,000: "If the demand exceeds the supply, I'll go back to Congress and get some more money...