Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-speed trains like those in Japan and France, Amtrak would have to lay hundreds of miles of expensive track. Instead the railroad is testing this new fast train, the X2000, on loan from Swedish State Railways, which can use existing tracks. Wheels on opposite ends of each car that steer independently and a computerized hydraulic system that tilts the carriage let the train take curves at high speed...
Liquid Money. Before contemplating anything fancier, most people should get rid of all their high-interest debt (to earn 18% tax-free and risk-free, pay off your Visa) . . . buy their cars for cash (yes, it's legal to pay off a car loan; no, leasing's not generally a good idea) . . . stock up on "the economy size" when items are on sale (an "investment" in sale-priced soda, socks and soap can stretch $1,000 to buy $1,400 worth of the same stuff you'd have bought anyway -- a 40% tax-free return) . . . and stash away at least...
...plot thickens with a few more characters: Add one brooding bartender (Cliff Gorman) who hates Fabian but agrees to loan him $12,000 the day before the big event (hint, hint?), the bartender's wife (Jessica Lange) who loves Fabian and a bookie who likes Fabian but will kill him if he reneges on his loan (a harbinger...
...defensive counterstrike, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted bribes in the B.N.L. case...
Bush would probably prefer not to be judged on his record of prophecy regarding Iraq and China. But at least those subjects were raised. What comes through from the 1988 debates is the stunning irrelevancy of most of the exchanges. Never mentioned was the fast-escalating savings-and-loan crisis. Not a word was devoted to the economic challenge from Japan. There was never more than a hint, even from Dukakis, that paper prosperity might soon give way to remorseless recession...