Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return my phone calls? I run to the mailbox every day hoping that a letter will arrive offering me a fantastic paid internship with all kinds of perks. Instead, I pull out yellow envelopes from Harvard Telephone Services and Citibank Visa which add to my ever-growing pile of debt. I wait by the phone hoping for an intern coordinator to call asking me for an interview. My phone had two messages the last time that I checked--one from my mother and the other from my bank asking me to pay a delinquent bill...
...served seven years as Vice Premier, earned his credentials as a hero of socialist capitalism beginning in 1993. Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping's invocation for the Chinese to get rich quick had touched off a frenzy of entrepreneurialism that threatened to engulf the country in inflation and debt. Zhu was given the job of cooling down the economy without dampening the double-digit growth in GNP. He did so by making himself head of the central bank and sharply curbing various abuses, including out-of-control bank lending to local enterprises. Inflation has since declined, from...
...That's hardly surprising, when Congress still sulkily refuses to pay an ever-rising U.S. debt to the U.N. -- $1.7 billion and counting. President Clinton is sending a bill to the Hill that would cover $1 billion of that -- but what Annan will want to know is whether any strings will be attached. Last year, Jesse Helms' bid to get $800 million out of his compadres was scuppered by an antiabortion rider in the House. The last thing the secretary general wants is a repeat of that farce. "Other countries in essence provide interest-free loans to cover largely American...
...would absolutely not counsel them away fromHarvard for financial reasons," Rose says. "Thatwould end up being a family decision based on astudent's ability to take on debt...
...debt, D&D is unable to print enoughcopies of the magazine to distribute one to eachdoor. Chong says D&D is usually 28 pages, but theeditors had to reduce the size of this year'sfirst edition to 24 pages because they did nothave the funds to publish the full number ofpages...