Word: loan
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Could be. Last week the Governor was himself convicted in a Phoenix federal court of seven counts of fraud. A jury found him guilty of repeatedly lying on loan applications to shore up his wobbly real estate empire. Under stringent federal sentencing guidelines--of the sort he in the past would have heartily endorsed--Symington will almost certainly do time...
...Visiting Professor of Folklore and American Civilization Simon J. Bronner, on loan from the University of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, is turning the F&M spotlight closer to home-closer to his home, in fact, in Pennsylvania's Amish Country...
...used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
Thus Evelyn Anderson, 82, a resident of the mammoth Sun City retirement community outside Phoenix, paid an astonishing $10,562 last year to a repairman who fixed some sprinklers and, while at it, wangled a loan with a phony sob story. "I felt sorry for him, going through a divorce and all that," says Anderson...
...your item on the decline in the price of gold [BUSINESS, July 28], only part of my statement on investing in gold was reported. As a result, my position might be misunderstood. My complete statement was, "If the return on gold (price increase plus loan fee) is not the same as the return on other investments, there's no point to holding it." DALE HENDERSON, Associate Director Federal Reserve Board Washington...