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...several similar devices that were already on the market. As for the advertised promotion efforts, those consisted of "a few brochures and a couple of lines of advertising on the Web," Mahaffey says, calling the promise "a lot of baloney." With no money coming in from the invention, the loan payments to the ISC subsidiary became a burden. "We really struggled for a while, but I was afraid to back out," he says. Last February he finally paid off the loan...
Alexander Calder, renowned for his kinetic sculpture, had his piece "Mobile" temporarily installed in the fifth floor atrium of the Healey Library. The lyric piece was loaned to UMass by the Fleet Financial Corporation before being sold a year later. The last series of installations is a group of 10 fantasy coffins from Ghana, on loan from the west Los Angeles gallery of Ernie Wolfe (Tucker's college roommate.) The coffins are an integral part of burial rites practiced by the Ga and other coastal Ghana communities...
...vastness, doing itinerant day labor, falling into barroom brawls and inappropriate relationships. His sister Sammy (Laura Linney) is ostensibly his opposite. She's a single mom who has stayed in their upstate New York hometown, where she raises her son by a rigid book and works faithfully as the loan officer in a bank branch. You Can Count on Me simply narrates what happens when the goofus comes home to sponge some money from the doofus and incidentally, almost accidentally, stirs an emotional frenzy. It is also, just possibly, the best American movie of this fast-dwindling year...
...number of years we've had a program of loan-forgiveness for students who take low-paying jobs. It's a way of permitting us to rely as heavily as we do on loan-financing...without having debt burdens dictate students' career choices," Meltzer says...
...before the Gore campaign threatened to settle this election in court and the Bush team went after an injunction against hand-counting votes, it was obvious that the winner would face profound questions of illegitimacy and have a weak grip on presidential power--which is, after all, merely on loan from the voters...