Word: payments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They finally managed to do so by lowering their expectations, accepting family help and taking out a riskier form of mortgage. With a $15,000 contribution from their parents, the couple scraped together about $25,000 for the down payment on a $117,500 three-bedroom home that they bought last September in Skokie. "The house has no garage and no driveway," says Dribin. "The bathroom's miniature, and the whole place is smaller than our apartment." To finance the deal, the family took out a 7.75% adjustable-rate mortgage that can jump as much as 2 percentage points...
...effort to further broaden access to legal advice, the government also proposed allowing lawyers to accept civil cases on a no-win, no-fee contingency basis, taking their payment out of their client's award. To prevent an explosion of litigation, the government wants to strictly limit the maximum lawyers can collect on contingency...
...Bulger's former law partner, Thomas Finnerty, received $500,000 from real-estate developer Harold Brown for help in securing government permits on the State Street project. Two years later, Brown sued Finnerty, claiming the payment was part of an influence-peddling scam involving the Senate President...
Although the case was settled out of court in December, Bulger had received $240,000 out of the payment through a trust fund. Bulger has said that the money was a loan against future legal fees and that he repaid the loan with interest once he knew Brown was the source of funds...
...think we'll maybe stretch out ((payment for programs over several years)), but I'm not going to give up on them. I have to set priorities, though. I'd like to start moving forward on the main ones, even if it's not going to be the total funding that I'd like to bring about...