Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overdrafts It has been established that Lance, his wife LaBelle and nine other relatives collectively amassed huge overdrafts. At one point in the confirmation hearings, Senator Javits asked Lance whether the overdrafts were repaid to the bank with interest. Lance responded, "Yes, sir." That may have been true of the period from mid-1974 to 1975. But the comptroller's report confirmed that Bert's and LaBelle's overdrafts from 1972 through the first five months of 1974 were repaid without interest...
...which the householder would pay only interest the first year, deferring principal repayments until the second year; and "reverse annuity mortgages" that would sensibly permit retired people to borrow on the equity in a home and live, in it at the same time, with the loans to be repaid by their estates when they die. Whether such mortgages are permitted now is a tangled question of federal and state regulation; in any event, giving them specific legislative sanction in California would advance the idea...
...vigorous Amman-based banking house, controlled by Palestinians, with assets of $4 billion and branches or joint ventures in 19 countries, including the U.S. The Arab Bank is widely known in the Middle East as the P.L.O. Bank, but its Jerusalem-born president, Abdel Majeed Shoman, 65, is handsomely repaid for whatever risks he may take in helping his fellow Palestinians invest their growing wealth. During the height of the Lebanese fighting, for instance, Shoman's Beirut branch was heavily guarded by Arafat's fighters. While many of Beirut's 79 other banks were being burned...
Yankelovich sees "the gradual evolution of a new implied contract between parents and their children." In his view, Traditionalists-the 57% of parents committed to stricter child rearing and older American values-implicitly say to their children, "We will sacrifice for you and be repaid by your success and sense of obligation." The New Breed message: "We will not sacrifice for you, because we have our own lives to lead. But when you are grown, you owe us nothing...
...time you pay, but next time I pay." Once, on the way to a movie, a pickpocket stole her money. Rather than admit this to her escort, she fled and later took out a small loan at a bank; she was "ashamed to report," notes Witke, that she never repaid...