Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartboard article was all too prescient. Cutting the interest subsidy on the Stafford loans would raise students' payments for their undergraduate education by up to 19.4 percent in total. The neediest students would be charged proportionately, and thus hurt the most. At the loan maximum of $17,125, students would have to squeeze out an additional $3,320 in payments...
...nitty-gritty of governance. Republicans and some Democrats let it be known that they were prepared to repeal the recently enacted ban on assault weapons, the President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase in the minimum wage...
...party to the middle. The G.O.P. newcomers are pulling an already conservative party further to the right. The question is whether on some issues they will drag it too far for most voters to follow. In a Time/CNN poll, 71% of those surveyed agree with the freshmen in opposing loan guarantees for Mexico. But just 22% want to see the assault-weapons ban overturned...
...Mexican loan guarantees, the newcomers aren't buying at all. Though the plan involves not direct loans but only guarantees--meaning the U.S. would be called upon to come up with the $40 billion only if Mexico defaulted on loans extended to it by private lenders--the deal is a hard sell to voters skeptical about helping either foreign nations or the Wall Street investors whose money is still in Mexican securities. At a press conference last week at which anti-bailout freshmen teamed with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, first-termer Wamp promised to vote ``with the people of east...
...There was no line at all," said Hohyun Son'98, who registered at 2 p.m. "I just got mypacket, signed some loan forms and that...