Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poet's mailing list could mean finding oneself embroiled in a passionate postal love affair. "Dearest dear De," "Dear One," "Dear Phil Baby," "Dear Wonderful Nolan!" "Dear wonderful lovely Tillie Olsen" are typical salutations. She lavished compliments, flattery and secrets, and expected to be repaid in kind. Like her poems, her letters were uninhibited pieces of herself offered " in deep fear of rejection...
...should farmers necessarily be faulted for accepting the money when Congress holds it out. They can borrow as much as $250,000, to be repaid in up to 20 years at the virtual giveaway interest rate of 3%. The eligibility rules, moreover, were written so loosely that far more farmers qualify than anyone expected. Sadly concedes Democratic Congressman Robert Giaimo, whose House Budget Committee has tried in vain to keep a lid on the program's overflowing costs...
After Long reached the post of majority whip, a deteriorating marriage and a drinking problem eroded his power, and in 1969 he was unseated by Ted Kennedy. He repaid the favor two years later when he helped mastermind Byrd's upset victory for the whip post over Kennedy. Settled into a new marriage, he began rebuilding his influence at about the same time...
...certificate of deposit to cover any campaign overdrafts, as well as an unlimited signed guarantee that he would meet all of his political committee's debts to the bank. And, Lance claimed, all of the overdrafts by himself, LaBelle and his campaign committee had been repaid "without a penny being lost to the bank." This, of course, ignored the fact that the overdrafts amounted to free loans, on which the Calhoun bank lost interest. Many banks now offer overdraft privileges but set limits at $5,000 and in some cases $15,000, and charge interest fees of about...
Delaware Republican William Roth Jr., for one, was not satisfied with Lance's explanation that he had repaid the bank. Roth compared this reasoning to the rationale "of a person who goes through a red light and says nobody was hurt so my going through was all right." Lance could not satisfactorily explain to Ribicoff why he had written a letter to federal bank examiners in 1973 saying his overdraft problem would be corrected and why he had failed to heed the criticism of bank examiners who found that the overdraft situation was "abusive" and "the age and size...