Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Committee investigators have already interviewed the publicity-shy Rebozo for five hours about the $100,000 payment. In somewhat flustered testimony, committee sources said, the Miami businessman claimed that the gift was first suggested by Hughes Executive Richard Danner and delivered to Rebozo in two equal installments, one in 1969 and one in 1970. Hughes intended the money to be used in Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Rebozo said. (Banner claims that the funds were earmarked for congressional candidates in the 1970 mid-term elections.) Yet for reasons that are unclear, the money was not turned over...
...Witkin Homes in Denver guarantees buyers who balk at today's high interest rates that they can refinance their mortgages once within the next three years if rates drop. Homewood Corp. of Columbus will give a buyer free paint for his new house, then deduct from the down payment the labor cost of spreading it on the walls...
...small house on Chicago's West Side, recently decided to buy a bigger home for his wife and four children. He applied to a savings and loan association for a new mortgage-but in the three weeks he waited for the deal to be closed, the down payment jumped from 10% to 25% and the closing costs from 4.5% to 11%. Roberts could not meet those terms, so his family is still living in cramped quarters...
...They are enthusiastic capitalists who rise at dawn to hit the streets with wares to exchange for "donations": flowers, votive light candles, even peanuts. Last year, when Master Moon moved his international headquarters to Tarrytown, N.Y., members sold candles across the U.S. for seven weeks to meet the down payment of $300,000 on an $850,000 estate...
...suits, the companies assert that, acting over their protests, the crude was twice loaded from Amoseas storage tanks in Ras Lanuf terminal aboard a ship that was to deliver it to the Saras refinery near Cagliari, Sardinia. The oil firms are suing Saras for return of the crude or payment of an estimated $2,000,000 cash for the cargo, on the ground that the oil still legally belongs to Amoseas...