Word: loans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent movies about three times a week, though "only on a very slow weekend would we stay in and watch." Friends come over and munch popcorn while watching favorites such as "Beverly Hills Cop," "Ghostbusters," and "Trading Places." But, Little says, two of the three machines are usually on loan to friends: "Not many of my friends own VCRs; they're all borrowing mine...
...hasn't a much-multiplied endowment taken over some of the expenses students are asked to bear? At a time when the loan burdens of students are restricting their future options more than ever before, financial office explanations don't really satisfy...
...running an artist-in-residence program there for the National Endowment for the Arts. In the mists of the future, they discovered, each could see Catamount looming small. They began to work out financing: stock sold to a few believers and a low-interest community-developme nt loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought a lot of bottles and not much draft beer, so Catamount would...
...creditors sense that serious austerity measures are nowhere in sight. One New York bank last month wrote off as a bad debt $40 million of the $257 million it is owed by Mexico. A consortium of 200 U.S. banks is delaying the transfer of funds for a $7 billion loan. Says a foreign banker: "In 1987 spending will outweigh any prudence." That is unlikely to reassure many leery Mexicans. For most, the yearning for a better life is tempered by the knowledge that things can -- and probably will -- get much worse...
Gates has a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history and in the 1970s spent nearly six years on loan to the National Security Council staff, where he worked for Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. A career analyst, Gates had no experience in CIA intelligence-gathe ring operations until he became Casey's deputy in April. Although his demeanor is mild, Gates once wrote a blistering critique of the CIA's ill-focused analytical process, and in 1981 Casey picked him to sharpen the agency's information-reporting procedures. The results helped to restore the CIA's reputation after a succession...