Word: credit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each fall, Buck consults with the department chairs to plan summer courses for their disciplines. Because the courses can be taken for degree credit, they must be approved by the department heads and the Faculty Council. The official expectation is that the classes will be as difficult as Harvard's term-time offerings...
Most foreign bankers have greeted Menem's plan with hedged optimism. But since Argentina has failed to keep up its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, neither agency is eager to issue fresh credits without some proof of economic progress. "What's announced on paper can be very different from the results," said a U.S. credit analyst...
...CREDIT: TIME Diagram by Joe Lertola...
...Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars' worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only Washington figure to use the service (the Washington Times, which broke the story, says some White House and congressional aides will be implicated), Spence must have been among its best customers...
Inevitably, some of the credit falls not upon the astronauts who make the trip or the engineers who make it possible, but on the politicians who give a green light to the whole thing...