Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment. Lenny's aging wife Felicia (Lee Grant) is trying to fight off the years and deny her wrinkles by sleeping with George. Meanwhile, George becomes friendly with Lenny through Felicia, who introduces the two in the hope that her husband will give her lover a business loan. All the while George's steady girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) slumps around with her pale hangdog face and her always-mussed, dirty-blonde hair, waiting with glazed eyes for George to propose marriage...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To avoid stranding 13,000 commuters, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority promised to take over service in and out of the city. Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission summoned representatives from 60 railroads to Washington and indicated that it will dismember the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel...
...turned to the guest of honor and expressed his "sincere thanks" for the Soviet Union's "readiness to help" Hungary in its serious economic plight. It was an ironic gesture. Kádár was expressing gratitude to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev for extending a loan of perhaps $40 million that Hungary urgently needs-to meet the newly increased price of Soviet...
...cutting prices. Another impediment to sales: the cost of borrowing for mortgages has only been inching down from lofty levels of 10% or more. Mortgage rates for new homes still average about 9.4% nationally, including the extra points and service charges many lenders demand. Most experts expect home loan rates to dip to 8½% later this year, though some S and L officials worry that mortgage costs could go up again this summer, when the Government begins to borrow heavily to finance the federal deficit...
...poor. But the investment fund goes a long way toward fulfilling one of Pérez's principal objectives: to offer other Latin nations an alternative to Washington's leadership. Venezuela has pledged $50 million to an incipient cartel of five Latin American nations. The loan is to enable them to cut coffee production in an attempt to prop up prices. In addition, Venezuela and Mexico are the main forces behind an embryonic Latin economic community that aims, among other things, to create multicountry firms to export the region's raw materials...