Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Average college student debt has more than doubled over the past six years as students increasingly resort to loans rather than grants to pay rising tuition fees, according to a national survey released earlier this month...
Average student debt has risen to $18,800, up from $8,200 six years ago, according to figures provided by Nellie organization, the nation's largest non-profit provider of student loans. Nellie Mae compiled these figures from a pool consisting of 65 percent undergraduate borrowers and 35 percent graduate borrowers...
Miller said that the average Harvard senior on financial aid will graduate beetween $15,000 and $20,000 in debt...
...cash bid more attractive than Ebbers' higher but riskier offer of stock. Most find cash more fetching. The strategy will force Lee to borrow to the teeth to finance the MCI buyout. The resulting company would have $40 billion in revenues and an unbelievable $54 billion in debt. Lee tried to assure investors that the combined companies would throw off enough cash to cover the interest payments. But the mere thought of that debt burden helped knock nearly $4 off the price of GTE stock last week. GTE finished trading at $46.06 a share...
...have to work longer, and if you need money during the worst of the drought, you'll have to sell at the bottom. A serious market dive of 40% could sap consumer confidence and bring on a recession, always tough on those who have been taking on debt...