Word: repay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superspectacle sweepstakes. With the palace at Versailles and a string of chateaux as backdrops, the French are on safe ground when on home ground, but their Louis XVI version of events on the American side is too fanciful to swallow. The only thing to do is to repay them in kind -perhaps a movie about Black Jack Pershing, with troupes of saucy mam'zelles following behind the tanks and kissing doughboys behind the hedgerows while France is being saved by the A.E.F. But mushoor, it's been done...
...teacher has said of his HUT experience, "It's like another education. I'm doing this because I'm here on scholarship and this is one way I can repay a debt...
...rice, tobacco, peanuts, corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop, and sell it on the open market. Or, if he finds that the market price is lower than the support price, he can simply keep that loan and, in exchange, assign the stored crop to the CCC. That is what happens to about two-thirds...
...leftist President Joao Goulart not only is prodding his tax collectors, too, but is trying seriously to cut his federal budget and check inflation. His finance minister, San Thiago Dantas, came to Washington last week and, instead of begging for new loans, asked merely for more time to repay old ones (see HEMISPHERE...
...thought suitable for the University to perform. Another is the implication that the University must justify its maintenance to the taxpayers by the materials benefits which they receive from it. A pamphlet from the University's Office of Public Information points out that "traceable returns from research alone repay every year to the people of Illinois more than the cost of building and operating the University since it opened...