Word: interest
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Tiedemann said the University's strategy involves "working closely with donors who have expressed interest in those areas and hoping to have them make gift decisions before the December 30 deadline in order bring those goals to meeting their objectives...
...problems it will cause for next year's budget, the proposal also has the immediate disadvantage of forcing the working poor to wait months for tax refunds that they have earned. The money from the EITC is often used to pay down debts or saved to generate interest, and to the working poor, if not to the government, a delay does mean...
...move generates a meager political benefit at a substantial public cost. White House officials have called it "a forced interest-free loan to the Government." Some Republicans in Congress have also objected, and Texas Gov. George W. Bush has opposed the delay, saying that it would be wrong for Congress to "balance their budget on the backs of the poor...
After months of fussing and fretting that the Fed would raise interest rates, the markets finally let their guard down ? and got a nasty shock. No, Alan Greenspan didn?t hike 'em a third straight time. But he let everybody know he?s watching, moving the Fed?s bias toward tightening and sending a recently resurgent Dow into an instant 100-point mini-tailspin (thus smothering an earlier rally and ending the day even). "It?s a clear signal that the bank is concerned that the economy isn?t slowing down fast enough," says TIME senior economics correspondent Bernard Baumohl...
Debt Consolidation. Wanda Storey, a Miami paralegal, has just swung a $13,000, 9.5% home-equity loan. She used it to pay off $6,100 of credit-card borrowings on which she was being charged 22% interest, and a $6,900 loan at 18% for a vacation time share. Her saving: $150 in monthly payments, plus a tax reduction she has yet to calculate...