Word: loans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local retail purchases. Citicorp and other big banks that have been moving into cards and checks on a nationwide scale argue that they have been forced to do so in self-defense, claiming they have lost a lot of consumer credit business since World War II to other loan suppliers, including not only the card firms but department-store charge accounts and the auto-finance subsidiaries of the car companies. Insists a top bank executive: "There is no war going on. That would imply that someone must win and someone must lose." But there surely will...
...regain control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared that he would centralize power again and deal out a few racketeers who had rubbed him the wrong...
...overdue bill himself. Without being subpoenaed, he appeared as a character witness for a man convicted of drunken driving who was trying to get his license back so he could take his wife to the hospital for cancer treatments. To spare a penniless 18-year-old loan delinquent, Taunton refused to enter the final judgment in favor of the loan company...
...total of 3,278 nonwhite workers) are enrolled in the five-year course, the company plans to expand the program over the next two years. Other Ford achievements: a desegregated sports program, in which the races mix easily in soccer games and in company recreation rooms, and a home-loan plan that has enabled 212 nonwhite employees to build their own houses...
Lyman says, however, that Radcliffe will be able to continue NDSL loans for upperclass women and will use Radcliffe loan funds to provide 3 per cent loans to freshmen women who would normally qualify for NDSL loans. Lyman says that it will be a cumbersome program to administer because Radcliffe has four separate loan funds, none of which has enough money to provide loans for all the freshman seeking NDSL funds. In addition, one of the funds was set up with the stipulation that it be used only for Jewish women and another only for Protestant women, creating yet another...