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...erected near either Toronto or Niagara Falls. Says Brother Nader: "The final choice will depend upon which is most anxious to have us." New York is definitely eager. The state has offered the Ghermezians a free 100-acre site for the project just 200 yds. from the falls, a low-interest $200 million loan, a decade of cut-rate hydroelectric power and a waiver of sales taxes on building materials...
...conventional forms of need-based aid. In addition, the Massachusetts-based Consortium on Financing Higher Education, whose 30 members include Northwestern, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, provides supplemental $2,000 to $15,000 loans to the same kinds of families. This past March, Stanford for the first time extended low-interest, long-term loan plans to parents in the highest income (more than $250,000) bracket. Though such help for the haves may seem a bit anomalous, tuition experts like Tally Wickstrom, director of financial aids at Purdue, point out that colleges have simply begun to adopt the funding techniques that...
...data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
...Things are different out here," says Dennis Holcomb of Shive-Hattery Engineers in Des Moines, whose search helped find Fibercraft for Sac City. Says Holcomb: "Iowa is full of small towns that can't come up with tax exemptions or low-interest loans the way bigger cities can in the East. So they turn to their friends and neighbors. It's truly a heartening thing...
...Clausen told a group assembled at Argentina's Central Bank last week. David Mulford, Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, declared during a visit last month that Argentina would be an ideal candidate for his government's new Baker loans (named after Treasury Secretary James Baker), which will provide low-interest funds to help Third World debtors stimulate long-term economic growth. Mulford is among many experts who clearly hope that Argentina will set an example for other distressed lenders...