Word: refundable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, was forced to sell her house in September...
...return showed that the first family, which pays taxes quarterly, was due for a $14,129 refund--of which $10,000 was to be applied to 1991 taxes...
Latest example: Citibank, which last week announced "Citibank Price Protection" for its 30 million MasterCard and Visa holders. The program guarantees that if you buy something with a Citibank card and see the item advertised at a lower price within 60 days, Citibank will refund the difference...
...into the creative- bookkeeping practices that enabled the university to bill Uncle Sam for depreciation on a 72-ft. yacht; faculty discounts on tickets to athletic events; and a percentage of the cost of flowers, bedsheets, tablecloths and antiques for the president's house. In January, Stanford agreed to refund $500,000 in government money used to maintain three university-owned houses, including the president's, and to pay back more than $180,000 on the yacht, a charge that the school said was an accounting error. But Dingell, who has hyperbolically likened Stanford's deeds to the defense-contractor...
...peer counselors to tell us about abortion, we pay doctors and nurses to recommend abortion, and finally we pay the bill when Harvard's children are snuffed out. It is abhorrent that we are forcibly compelled to make these payments and then burdened with the responsibility of requesting a refund...