Word: repaid
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...girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie, "and Nancy was as bad off as I was." As he was drying off, Wirtz said simply that he had "repaid a favor." Fourteen years earlier, he explained, his own son Philip, then three, had been rescued from just such a predicament in Lake Erie by a fast-moving doctor named Jonas Salk...
...hope that the spectacle of two groups of Harvard snobs berating each other for their snobbery has repaid the summies for any slight blow to their egos. But I also hope that it gave them, as the stared in awe at Widener, a moment's pause. If this community cannot take a reasonably harmless joke on itself, then the "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons have even less value than their creator would like to believe. Stephen Nightingale...
...supposed to put up only half the money needed. But Bull's funds are so low and the French capital market is so depressed that G.E. advanced the entire sum. At De Gaulle's insistence-since G.E.'s share of the partnership until the money is repaid moves up to 66% rather than the 50% it formerly held-Machines Bull is supposed to pay back the advance, with interest, before...
...hours of lessons, Karafin wrote an incisive story about the case. Then Karafin called on the head of the company that owned the studio. Thereafter, Karafin wrote no more dance studio stories. A lawyer friend of Karafin's worked out a settlement by which the company repaid the bachelor a fraction of the money he had been charged. Karafin was paid more than $2,000 "for services rendered...
...both the ministry and the company bore their share of criticism, Britain's defense industry contracts seemed to be the main target of the debate. Critics in the press and Parliament alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...