Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GOOD CREDIT COUNSELING PROVIDES, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF PERSONAL DEBT, EXPERT AID WITHIN REACH OF ANY HEAVILY INDEBTED FAMILY WITHOUT DEPENDENCE UPON THE COURTS OR CHARITIES...
Hoffa's proposed alliance with the debt-ridden I.L.A. outraged A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass, who recognized it for what it was: a deadly threat to the three-year-old drive to clean up the New York waterfront. In 1953 the A.F.L. expelled the I.L.A. for flagrant and persistent corruption, and it was the teamsters' union that sparked the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, a new, "clean" pier union. Now, if Hoffa succeeded in switching teamster support back to the gang-bossed I.L.A., the I.B.L. was almost certainly doomed to extinction. Determined to prevent this, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany promptly...
Following the vote it was learned that this year's smoker committee has as yet found no way to pay off the 200-odd dollars debt to the Union Committee and the Council...
Crusader & Dog. Against this figure Greene pits a tired, cynical neutralist, a British newspaperman named Thomas Fowler. He is a man of the past but with no faith in it. Back home are a dissatisfied High Church wife, debt, a dull desk-in short, the Graham Greene country of mildew, cabbage water, frayed cuffs, bad dentistry and unmade beds and all the other seedy physical metaphors for "weeping multitudes [who] droop in a hundred...
...problem shows all signs of getting worse. Colleges today are either sinking further and further into debt, reducing the quality of their product to balance their spiralling budgets, or combining the worst features of both vices. Endowment annually pays a smaller portion of the bill, and simultaneously, more and more students apply to college who cannot pay the balance themselves...