Word: payments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, Awad felt, the U.S. had treated him shabbily. While he had been hailed by a Senate panel as "a hero for the American people," Washington had taken seven years to issue him a green card -- and still would not honor his request for citizenship and a passport. Moreover, payment of his reward money had been stalled after Rashid's murder conviction in 1992, then again a year later when the verdict was upheld. Now, finally, a check for $750,000 was going to be placed in his hands. But he had given up hoping for the presidential handshake...
...pains, Awad was told his reward would be delayed until after he testified again during Rashid's appeal. Even after that, the check was withheld for another eight months while government departments bickered over the amount. State officials backed the FBI's recommendation for a $1 million payment, but the bureau's overseers at Justice insisted that the sum was excessive and that Awad should get only...
...largely the determined campaign of Bradley Smith, the head of the State Department's reward program, that secured Awad his payment. For the neglected Awad, Smith's efforts represented the dose of appreciation and human kindness that had been missing all along. Last week when Awad was finally given his long-awaited check, he seemed less interested in the record- breaking payment than in the presence of Smith at the paltry ceremony. "He took my heart," Awad said. "I know he did everything he could." Later that afternoon, Awad announced he would advise his lawyers to drop his suit...
...March 1993, Lennar had agreed to settleboth suits for a total payment of $2.4 million, orabout $3,800 per plaintiff after taxes andlawyers' fees were deducted...
When the real estate market collapsed in the'80s, Dime borrowers could not repay theirloans--many of which should not have been approvedin the first place, Anderson said. Thirteenpercent of borrowers in 1978 and 19 percent in1988 never even made the first payment, accordingto the anonymous source...