Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it lost $53.2 million in the fourth quarter of 1985. That brought its total losses since June of 1984 to $206 million. During this grim period Commodore has piled up debts of $250 million, and it is now negotiating with creditors to postpone a Feb. 28 deadline for loan repayments...
There was just one little catch. The shop was a sting operation code-named Western Sizzler and run by Birmingham police, and the customers were thieves looking to make a quick buck on stolen goods. Johnny was Johnny Samaniego, 34, a squat, bearded undercover narcotics agent on loan from the Tuscaloosa police department. With his gift for gab, Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used...
...next day, Reagan's motorcade pulled up to a side door of his hotel to bypass 150 angry farmers who oppose his budget priorities. Adding to their pain: some 75,000 letters from the Farmers Home Administration began going out last week to borrowers who have fallen behind on loan repayments, warning them to start catching up within 30 days if they hope to avoid eventual foreclosure...
...unpleasant duty, as the agent of the Federal Government's lender of last resort, to foreclose on farmers who cannot keep up their debt payments. After a two-year moratorium on foreclosures, Thomas is now sending out letters politely advising farmers on how to avoid default through loan reschedulings, reamortization, even voluntary liquidation. "It bothers me to foreclose," says Thomas. "If it didn't, you wouldn't be human. I try to leave my job at the office. Otherwise...
Most misdeeds boiled down to what Donn Parker, a computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes...