Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRIVATE LOANS. A Senate option would ban U.S. bank loans to private firms and individuals in South Africa. But these were declining sharply anyway, even before South Africa placed a moratorium last year on the repayment of private foreign loans. U.S. banks reduced their outstanding loans to all South African borrowers from $5 billion in 1984 to $3.24 billion at the end of 1985. Lack of foreign capital sharply limits the growth of South Africa's economy. Eventually the effect could be lower profitability for white-owned businesses, but it could also mean an increase in black unemployment...
...personal information, preferences and tastes; last year 200,000 responses were returned. They form the first profile of an audio market that according to computer projections, will yield industry-wide sales of more than $250 million in 1986. After all, analysts point out, most new-car manufacturers offer the option of a tape deck, and Walkman-style cassette players have become as much a part of the urban landscape as Reeboks and Perrier. Each tape deck and set of earphones represents a potential customer, a statistic that is not lost on Frank Vertuca, associate director of marketing and distribution...
More than 75 Summer School students in the Secondary School Program chose to explore the former option last night and gathered in the mosquito-ridden Greenhouse Cafe for a forum on applying to and living at Harvard...
...State offered each of the 322 arrested at the protests the option of paying a $25 fine in exchange for dismissing charges against them. All but 48 had their charges dropped...
Singer may be offered the option of staying at the school after the 50th anniversary celebration, which will consist mainly of symposia, Reveal said...