Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money to redeem the maturing city securities that they held. A Long Island couple needed their $5,000 to pay for a child's education. A messenger waited patiently to cash in $15 million in notes held by the Chemical Bank. An elderly married pair anxiously awaited payment of $25,000, half their life savings. A retired Brooklyn schoolteacher hoped to collect her $26,929. If she got it, she said, she would not reinvest it in New York's uncertain paper; she would put it into a lower-yielding but more secure savings bank. Finally, after...
...mere $110 in fees. CUNY has a splendid history of helping innumerable indigent students become leaders in business. Government and professions. But today, with an enrollment of more than 265,000, CUNY costs $595 million a year. The city, which pays 45% of CUNY's budget, has trimmed its payment this year by $32 million. CUNY will either have to reduce its enrollment sharply or charge tuition, a necessity that has been steadfastly resisted by the board of higher education...
NSDL, a long-term loan payment program, is one of the two available to Harvard-Radcliffe students...
...pickup point. Yet the law also insists that the Postal Service attempt to be selfsupporting. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar is urging Congress to undertake a study to determine whether the U.S.P.S. needs an increase in the $920 million federal subsidy it now gets, the so-called public service payment. To hold down deficits and head off rate increases in the years ahead, Bailar also wants Congress to double the present subsidy during the two or three years that such a complicated study of the Postal Service is likely to take...
...latest is Chicago, where the Tribune recently turned up dozens of cases of mortgage shenanigans that have cost the Government millions of dollars. Often, real estate dealers would lure a low-income family into buying a ghetto house, perhaps by putting up part of the down payment. The company would then secure FHA insurance for the mortgage on the house, typically based on an unrealistically high appraisal that inattentive FHA officials did not question. After the financially strapped tenant let the house fall apart and moved out, the mortgage company would foreclose. It would then collect a fat check from...