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...least one undertaker and a golf caddy. "They are all respected people in the community," he says. "They are trusted." The volunteer family planners also help run Mechai's nonpregnancy agricultural credit program, which offers low-cost loans to farmers who avoid pregnancy until the loan is repaid...
...have repaid 75% of our bank loans, and while the future still looks tough, we will not give up. This is the thrill of our system, and it upsets me to hear self-interest groups, including the aged, fighting for increased benefits at the expense of the workers. To prosper we must labor harder and sacrifice for the good...
...administered by the colleges-have collection rates as high as 98%. Reynolds argues that instead of being cut, as Reagan proposes, the G.S.L. program should be controlled by colleges rather than banks. This change would help guarantee that the loans would be applied toward real need and eventually repaid. Otherwise, says Reynolds, with costs continuing to spiral (next year's tuition and board are scheduled to jump to $9,000), Bates and other colleges may have to start basing admissions on ability to pay. Says he: "We can stand a lot of programs being cut if the Reagan Administration...
...Myers pocketed the cash; in another, he complained of having to share the money with his associates. On the witness stand last week, Myers said he had spent his $15,000 share "in a couple of weeks." He paid his three children's private school tuition bills, repaid a $1,000 loan from his father and bought some household furniture. But he insisted that he had accepted the money reluctantly and never intended to do anything in return for it. Said he: "I was just blowing smoke. Almost everything I said was not the truth...
...family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...