Word: loan
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...Motown writing trio of Edward and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, whose hits include Stop! in the Name of Love and Baby I Need Your Loving. To date, Pullman's deals are the only ones of their kind, though Nomura Capital Entertainment recently arranged a $15 million loan for Rod Stewart that was secured by the star's future royalties. SPP Hambro is close to cutting a similar deal for slugger Frank Thomas, who has a long-term contract with the Chicago White Sox. Six months ago, former record executive Charles Koppelman formed CAK Universal Credit in partnership with Prudential...
...Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for a photograph of one man shooting another. Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after...
DIED. NGUYEN NGOC LOAN, 67, South Vietnamese national-police commander whose 1968 point-blank execution of a bound Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon stunned Americans when they saw it on film; in Burke, Va. The widely reprinted photo, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, fortified public opinion against the war. After the fall of Saigon, Loan and his family moved to Virginia, where he ran a restaurant. (See Eulogy below...
...want to talk to the pair about the demise of David Kazdin, 63, a longtime acquaintance and business associate of Sante Kimes' who was found shot to death in a Dumpster near Los Angeles International airport in March. Police suspect the Kimeses may have fraudulently obtained a $260,000 loan on property listed in his name. And Bahamian police have unanswered questions about the death of banker Syed Bilal Ahmed, who vanished in Nassau in September 1996. Sante Kimes reportedly had dealings with Ahmed shortly before he disappeared...
...subsidies will allow banks to drop loan interest rates from 8.23 to 7.43 percent--which translates to savings of $650 to $3,200 for students--but will cost taxpayers up to $3.6 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office...