Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these lamentations sound like empty rhetoric, it is because they are, admittedly, impotent. In one of the more poignant scenes in Boogie Nights, two of the porn stars, now married and expecting a child, seek a loan to start a small business. They are turned down by the bank officer who cannot take them seriously because of their past. Outside the world of the movie, in our national political discourse, the pornographers run the bank and the stodgy proponents of a bygone era are laughed into the margins. I claim no basis on which to judge the rectitude of anyone...
Other federal work-study funds that Harvard receives have supported students performing public service work for years. The Stride Rite program funds student public service projects by providing a combination of work-study wages, book purchase grants and student loan grants...
Symington's governorship was tainted almost from its inception. Soon after taking office, he was sued by the Resolution Trust Corporation for his role in directing the failed Southwest Savings & Loan Association in Phoenix. Two years later, Symington, who had campaigned as a successful business mogul, declared himself broke. Despite his troubles, he won re-election in 1994. But the litany of scandal never stopped. In 1995, after a court ruled that Symington was personally liable for a $10 million loan from six pension funds to his now defunct real estate company, he declared personal bankruptcy. Then last year...
...prosecution witnesses and 1,400 documents were enough for the jury last week to find him guilty. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Schindler called Symington a classic con man, who falsely inflated his net worth when he wanted to borrow and pleaded poverty when he wanted to refinance a loan on more favorable terms. Between 1989 and 1991, for instance, his declared net worth swung between $12 million and minus $23 million...
...miserable. Hitchens followed up with a scathing, book-length critique called The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which noted that Mother Teresa once wrote to Judge Lance Ito requesting leniency for Charles Keating, whom he was about to sentence in the late-1980s savings-and-loan scandal. Keating had once contributed $1.25 million to the Missionaries of Charity...