Word: guarantor
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Each installment was a morality play. Villains got what they deserved; violence in the service of the good guys was an arbiter of justice, enforcer of safety and guarantor of a crisp, satisfying, often bloody ending, all within half an hour...
...business student knows that bad loans come in waves. The largest U.S. guarantor of student loans is learning that lesson the hard way. The Higher Education Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit group that has guaranteed $9.6 billion in student debt, acknowledged last week that a rising tide of defaults is threatening to push the agency into insolvency. HEAF's trouble was caused primarily by its heavy commitment to trade-school students, the group with the highest default rate. More than one-third of HEAF's loans were made to students attending for-profit institutions that promised careers in fields from hairdressing...
...approach differs from that of President Bush. Indeed, there are some differences. According to the American scenario, as far as I can tell, NATO -- and that means a NATO strengthened by the inclusion of a united Germany -- should be the foreman and guarantor in the building of a new European order...
...troops on its soil; he also wants the Soviet Union to like the idea. In his TIME interview, Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed as "not serious" (a scathing put-down in the lexicon of Soviet diplomacy) the notion that a strengthened NATO will replace a disintegrating Warsaw Pact as the guarantor of the U.S.S.R.'s security...
Chamorro demonstrated diplomatic agility with the Sandinistas as well. In negotiating the transfer of power, the outgoing government's paramount concern was maintaining the integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...