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...billion last year, $10 billion of that amount had to be earmarked as the annual interest due on the debt. Nonetheless Neves said that he is opposed to the suggestion that Brazil declare a moratorium on its international debts repayments. Said he: "We must pay what we owe. It is a debt of honor for the nation...
...creative switches had kind of gone off," he says. "There was an anvil over my head. I would owe music for the rest of my life. Writing, the music, my understanding of 'arrange' and 'produce' were gone. But I told myself that when I got good enough musically, it would come back. I knew that if I kept working on the music, not getting somebody else to play bass or anything for me, that if I somehow understood the music again the way I did in the beginning, when it was so personal, when I did it with...
...most worrisome aspects of the farm slump is its impact on American banking. Farmers owe public and private lenders some $200 billion. Of the 79 U.S. banks that failed last year, 25 were agricultural lenders. Says C. Todd Conover, the Comptroller of the Currency: "One of the big problems banks are going to face in 1985 is agriculture, and it's going to impact a lot of them...
...junior professorships: "Most young professors are very underpaid compared to the salaries that they could receive in other fields. It seemed to me that one of the important things for our country, not just for Harvard is that these men and women stay in the profession. . . . All of us owe a debt to Harvard for all that our years there have meant to us throughout our lives. We should be especially grateful for the leadership Harvard has provided in American higher education...
...mean to be difficult," he says after the same question had been worded three ways without an adequate response. "But that's much too simplistic a question. People are much more complex than that. I just don't see an 'I-owe-it-all-to-my-mother' type answer to that...