Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many others, he is embarrassed by the way the Vietnamese refugees are being chased out of the parish...
...purchase of a $60,000 house, residents would save $85 a month compared with the cost of a conventional mortgage. Engineer John Passarello, 24, and his wife, a secretary, saved for a year to get a down payment for a $45,000, two-bedroom house on the city's South Side, but were unable to find regular financing under 10.1%. The city-backed loan, Passarello says, "will make the difference between having to scrimp and being able to enjoy our new home...
...have also made people more alert to possible claims against institutional America. The act of suing, in short, has become less personal, and when the defendant is an institution, people do not suppose anybody is getting hurt. But as high insurance rates and doctors' bills attest, a damage payment that hurts nobody is as rare as a truly free lunch...
...Slay, 30, and Fay Dunson, 27, have been married only 18 months and, without going on an austerity budget, they have already saved $11,000 toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative...
...negotiations and discussions over the sovereignty of the West Bank. What we say is, let's discuss it toward the end of the five-year transition period. During the five-year period, we are going to pay more than half the price the Arabs are asking for? a down payment, a very substantial one?abolishing the military regime. I believe any Arab country, if it knows the other alternative is just to go on with things as they are, should accept that. We are not ready to make a precommitment. After five years, God knows where Sadat will be, where...