Word: loan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest loan from HUD will supply 65 per cent of the remaining funds. Private sources including Boston Edison Co., and the Office of Energy Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will fund the rest of the cost...
...Somoza, however, American support remains crucial to stave off the financial effects of turbulence. He is currently trying to arrange an eight year loan of $88 million from a consortium of U.S. banks which would, in the words of one American banker, "give the country a breather." The Nicaraguan government has promised banks that it would catch up on its current interest payments by March 31, from sales of coffee, cotton, meat, and sugar in the early part of the year that provides the majority of the country's revenue. Meanwhile, there has been talk of possible Sandanista intervention...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...
Should legal action fail, the commission can still bypass the legislature by using investigators from other agencies. An obscure section of the law allows the commissioner of public safety to loan personnel to the commission among them the State Police. "But clearly that is not the best way to go about it," Hedlund notes, "because other agencies don't want their budgets tapped...
...actually costs the United States, something that proves that the U.S. is not kidding around the South African government will see no reason to change at all. The only things I can see that are non-violent, and that would constitute a strong pressure are withdrawal of investment and loan money from South Africa, and recall of the ambassador. It will take something fairly dramatic, like withdrawal of economic and diplomatic support, to get it through to them, finally, that they either have to start negotiating with black leaders or face the whole thing on their...