Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major banks often wait to see how club governments will react to requests for postponed loan repayment. The club also has an important effect on the cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans, the Paris Club will postpone the payback of both principal and interest, thus freeing up additional credit for use by the debtor. In the past two years, club governments have used this method to add $15 billion to the coffers of petitioning debtors...
Memories of last year's miraculous 28-20 Harvard victory were obviously fresh in the minds of the Crusaders. On the field, many of them yelled "payback" and "last year!" at Harvard players...
...aspect of the Bush fiasco is that it is a rare instance of definite political payback. That is, Bush did something clearly egregious--put a big $250 cowboy boot right in the old mouth--in calling for price controls, and the voters in the rest of non-Texas America, still a sizable majority, will be quick to pay him back for his short-sighted comments...
...social service and expressed a desire that the CWSP be expanded to allow more community service work in an article he recently wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Higher education can and should enhance its role of service to the nation," wrote Hackney. "The tools of this enhancement--service payback and an expanded work-study program--are by no means the only approaches, but they can help remove some of the critical financial and institutional barriers that preclude wide-scale public service by current college students and recent graduates...
...also a main focus of Fish's present efforts here in the United States. He sees good p.r. enabling the program to "seek additional corporate sponsors as an appealing investment." Corporations must believe that "it [the program] is a worthwhile thing rather than just a dollar-to-dollar payback investment...