Word: loans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick companies and its disastrous effect on the taxpayers. G.M. Chairman Thomas A. Murphy argues that federal aid insulates companies from the effects of competition in the marketplace, perpetuates inefficiency and creates unfairness. There is no precedent for what Chrysler wants. In 1971 Lockheed was rescued with a federal loan guarantee for $250 million of its private debt. But that cost the taxpayers nothing, and by the time the Lockheed loans were paid off in 1977, the Government made a profit of $31 million in fees. Perm Central's plea for a handout in 1970 was ignored...
Washington is sensibly encouraging the use of ethanol in spite of its modest technical problems as a replacement for gasoline. The Administration has already budgeted $11 million in loan guarantees for stills, and the Senate has approved a bill that would increase the funding to a full $500 million...
...Sing Sing prison for assault. By 1952 he had become a high-ranking enforcer for Bonnano. Because Galante spoke French, Spanish and several Italian dialects, he often acted as the family's emissary in overseas assignments to arrange multimillion-dollar drug deals. He was also involved in pornography, loan sharking and labor rackets...
Elizabeth M. Hicks, associate director of financial aid, said yesterday the members of the conference support the financial aid programs: the Basic Education Opportunity Grant, the Guaranteed Student Loan, the National Direct Student Loan, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants, and the College Work Study Program...
...true that this film starts off like any other Bond extravaganza (including undulating female silhouettes). Something gets stolen (in this case, a U.S. space shuttle on loan to the British), and Bond has to find out what happened and try to get it back. But this is classic; even Sean Connery Bond flicks used such plots. (Goldfinger bought up most of the world's gold supply, Spectre took bombs from a hijacked American submarine in Thunderball, and arranged the thefts of two American and one Russian space craft in You Only Live Twice...