Word: debts
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...world, but just when the Republican National Committee had its best week in a year--winning two statehouses and a congressional seat--a potential revolt divided the party's ranks. What's it about? Money. A top official told TIME that the G.O.P. is more than $7 million in debt--more than half again what it claimed last week. Fund raising is lackluster, and party elders didn't like it when G.O.P. chairman JIM NICHOLSON directed $800,000 to radio ads in Staten Island, though the congressional candidate was never hurting. Nicholson, who replaced HALEY BARBOUR two years...
...eyes dwarved by oversize spectacles almost mock idle viewers of the snapshot. Best known for his many short stories and plays about the crotchety, crime-solving barrister Rumpole, Mortimer is hardly considered a literary relative of Orwell's, yet the immense entertainment value of his new book owes a debt to some very Orwellian features of the compelling, satisfying mystery...
...fact both Eappens were still in debt from medical school. Their house was modest by Newton standards. And Deborah Eappen worked only three days a week, coming home at lunchtime to breast-feed her baby when she could, otherwise preparing her milk for Woodward to bottle-feed him. "Everyone has child care in Newton," says Ellen Ishkanian, editor of the local News Tribune, who is sympathetic to Deborah Eappen. "This cuts to the quick. People have to assign some blame" and be able to exclude themselves from the guilt. "If she were a perfect mother, then it could happen...
...Reuss, economist at Piper Capital Management, based in Minneapolis, Minn., believes a recession could occur in the U.S. early next year. He pins his forecast on the debt-burdened consumer. Reuss estimates that half the households with less than $50,000 in annual income have non-mortgage debt equal to 24% of their take-home pay. "That is an all-time high," he notes, adding that the stress is apparent in rising bankruptcies and the recession-like 5% annual growth in consumer credit. A more normal credit growth rate is 10% to 15%. Now tack on uncertainties from a tumultuous...
What hurt most was the triumphant crime-stopper look on the heavy-set woman's face, her moral hauteur as she jabbed her finger at me and raised her voice so that she could be heard by passersby 50 ft. away. She wasn't just collecting on a debt, she was testifying before a Senate committee. She was Acting. This hurt me. Especially as I remembered having behaved that way myself. And it struck me that Gasgate was my penance for the Solidarity Forever affair...