Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among other things, was that if the noise should continue, it would ruin the lecture for others; it is only a difference in tense, but it substantially affects the meaning. The reasons was prompt and cooperative, and all of us who heard Mr. Toynbeo's lecture are in debt to those who accepted their disappointment and left quietly. McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...costs are kept in line. If not, a big enough jump in construction and operating costs might wipe out profits for the next 25 years. According to the contract estimates, at the end of 25 years the company will own an aging plant and still owe a debt of about $25 million...
...Angeles Daily News seemed on its deathbed ten months ago when former Democratic Congressman Clinton D. McKinnon bought the paper (TIME, Jan. 4). It was about $2,000,000 in debt and losing at the rate of $1,500,000 a year. McKinnon set out to woo "militantly Democratic readers," pepped up the writing and reporting and aggressively went after new advertising. He succeeded in cutting the daily losses of the News from $4,600 to less than $1,000 a day. But McKinnon's remedies were not enough...
...about. Apparently, the program has already had effect. Said Pedro T. Cruz of San Carlos University: "I am charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove the Communist poison from the minds of our people." ¶ Worrying about the mounting debt of the world's most famous undergraduate debating society and nursery of politicians (e.g., Gladstone, Asquith, Attlee), President Michael Heseltine of the Oxford Union hit upon a scheme to make money: the opening of a new nightclub, located in the Union cellars and fitted out like a Left Bank boite...
...worth of notes, convertible into common stock at $6 a share. Within three months, by selling more stock to Martin shareholders, Bunker was able to pay off $4.3 million of the notes. The rest were converted into stock. This year Martin paid off the last of its interest-bearing debt, and the stock rose...