Word: loan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deservedly so. His Chili Palmer is a Miami loan shark, the kind of good fellow who can shatter his competitor's nose and with a casually aimed shot nip a sliver off his scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth...
...student-loan program is another potential weak spot for Republicans. As part of their controversial plan for $10.1 billion in education cuts over seven years, they want parents to pay higher interest rates and to eliminate the six-month grace period students have before they must start repaying loans. Those proposals have become a constant theme in speeches by Clinton and town meetings conducted by Democratic Congressmen. Last week, just days after proposing to make colleges pay an administrative fee on government-backed student loans, Republicans were forced to scale back because of the furor that erupted...
...grants are denied to deserving students and as individual loan debts skyrocket, millions of students will no longer be able to go to college," Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 said in a statement last week...
...committee proposes keeping the loan origination fee paid by students at its current level of 3 percent. And it proposed maintaing the interest rate reduction on new loans scheduled to take place in July...
...Kenneth Starr's investigation suffered its first major setback when an Arkansas federal judge threw out one of the two indictments Starr recently obtained against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Judge Henry Woods ruled that charges growing out of a cable-TV deal, which alleged Tucker had falsified a loan application and schemed to evade taxes, dealt with matters beyond the counsel's Whitewater jurisdiction. Starr said he would appeal...