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Radcliffe matches one-ninth of the NDSL funds allotted by the government and channels repaid NDSL loans back into the program...
Rowinsky's cheesecake challenge is also good for business. Each contestant must pay for the cake in advance and is only repaid if the cake is eaten within an hour. At $11 each and about 100 unsuccessful attempts, that adds up to a lot of cheeseeake...
...mighty, but the New York City Opera has Beverly Sills. In 1966 she became a top star overnight, singing the coloratura role of Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar. She repaid City Opera by becoming the bestselling box-office draw in its 34-year history. Last January, when Sills, 49, announced that she would end her singing career in 1980, she promised that she would stay on at City Opera?as co-director with Julius Rudel, 57, her mentor and director of the company for 21 years. Last week "Good Queen Bev," as Rudel has called her since her smashing...
...type of loan that Japan wants to extend to China could be repaid partly in the most liquid of China's assets, oil. The trouble with this scheme is that Chinese oil is waxy, heavy and, given its low quality, overpriced. Says the president of one Japanese oil company: "The men in the industry are in an angry mood. They were never consulted. They were simply told they would have to pay the price for Japan-China trade and finance Japanese exports by buying Chinese...
...Emerson and Alice Marble-put their names to a two-page warning in a major tennis magazine, cautioning young players against the excesses of recent years. "The huge financial rewards you've received . . . were undreamed of when we were in our primes," the elders wrote. "How have you repaid it? By debasing tennis-its standards, its traditions, its reputation-and jeopardizing its future . . . Tennis must clean...