Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Brown attacked the Senate for staying up until midnight to discuss the Savings and Loan bailout and asked why they couldn't do the same to discuss full funding for Headstart, his listeners agreed. Like no speaker I had seen before, Jerry Brown spoke to his audience, and his audience heard...
...understand this distinction more fully, another example may be helpful. Consider a hypothetical person, just graduated from college, trying to decide between two similar internships, one paid and one volunteer. This person has student loan payments, and must otherwise support themselves, but wants to work in some sort of public service...
...there be anything but contempt for politicians who decry the projected $365 billion federal deficit even as they pour more and more dollars into their pet programs? Is there a case for the Keating Five and the way those purblind Senators opened their doors to convicted savings and loan rip- off artist Charles Keating -- not to mention the purblind way in which the Senate ethics committee investigated the offense? Will anyone speak up for Senators and Representatives who run against Congress back home but who are all too eager to rejoin the club once they are safely back inside...
Some potential entrepreneurs are getting financial backing from new and surprising sources. While the Tennessee Valley Authority, the government-owned power utility, is paring its payroll of 27,000 by 14% this year, it is also offering 10-year loans to laid-off workers who want to go into business. Since the program began last January, the TVA has reviewed 22 applications and approved three: a dry-cleaning operation, a Christian bookshop and a home- improvement store. Cathy and Malcolm Phillips, a married couple who both worked as nuclear technicians until they were laid off last month, took...
Last week Republican Governor J. Fife Symington became the latest candidate for rogue in Arizona's political gallery. Symington, along with 11 other % former officials of the Southwest Savings & Loan, based in Phoenix, was named in a suit filed by the Resolution Trust Corporation alleging "gross negligence" in connection with the thrift's collapse in 1989. And the FBI is conducting its own investigation into possible criminal charges relating to the thrift...