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...operated as a private firm. Sallie Mae encourages banks and universities to make student loans by guaranteeing their security. Its most common tactic includes purchasing loans originally made to students from the banks themselves under the assumption that banks will lend more easily if a safety net exists to buffer the very risky and unprofitable market...
...Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL). Established in 1965. GSLs provide a buffer for students, insuring private loans, subsidizing loan interest while the student is in school, and making up the differences between the student interest rate and market rates...
...country has strengthened its ties with Egypt, America's major Arab ally in the Middle East. Sudan shields Egypt's southern flank from attack and safeguards the upper reaches of Egypt's economic mainstay, the Nile River. In recent years, Sudan has also served as a buffer against the designs of Libya's Gaddafi, whom Nimeiri derides as having "two personalities, both of them evil." Finally, Sudan's key location might make it an ideal staging area for U.S. forces in the event of a military threat to the Persian Gulf. Last February, President Reagan...
...improving climate comes at an important time. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel is engaged in delicate negotiations with his country's brawling factions over a security pact that would extend his military authority beyond Beirut and strengthen the buffer zones between Christians and the Shi'ite Muslims and Druze. Washington is pushing the plan not only because it will enhance the chances for a lasting cease-fire but because it could provide an opportunity to redeploy the Marines to safer ground. Two of America's partners in the Multi-National Force also were increasingly restive about being pinned...
...supposed winners from the reform--Indian and colored voters--are now placed in an unpleasant buffer position. Many of their leaders have urged a boycott of the segregated chambers of Parliament, while others are more willing to lay down for their former oppressors. So a new twist is added to apartheid...