Word: repay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spending several weeks in the Sahara also proved to have its fringe benefits--Herzberg received two marriage proposals. After helping remove Herzberg's jeep from a ravine, one gentleman wanted Herzberg to repay the favor by marrying his sister...
...place an economic adjustment program to cut government spending and curb its 400% inflation rate. As soon as Argentina and the IMF sign a preliminary agreement, which may take a month, the U.S. Treasury will give Argentina a short-term $300 million loan; it will be used to repay the four other Latin American countries that took part in the bailout. The IMF'S executive board will then examine the Argentine economic plan. If it approves the program, new loans will be authorized, and the U.S. Treasury will get its money back...
Melendez said that the council is under no legal obligation to repay Barber, who was act ing not as their representative but as the local manager for Husker...
...Instead of waiting years for a firm to repay investments in the form of profits, an entrepreneur can sell future earnings to outsiders in the form of shares. In a rising stock market, investors are willing to pay a premium for the anticipated returns from young, fast-growing companies. That is why firms like Diasonics, which makes medical diagnostic equipment, can go public at a per-share price equivalent to 70 or more times its current income at the same time that General Motors stock is selling for only about six times its net profits per share...
...sometimes difficult to know whether Kennedy was a visionary or simply a rhetorician. He did have a high sense of adventure, which he combined with patriotism in the launching of his plan to put a man on the moon and thereby repay the Soviets for the technological humiliations of Sputnik. He did imagine a better America, a fairer place, a more excellent place. He even believed that it was part of his task as President to lift American culture. He and his wife Jacqueline brought Pablo Casals and Igor Stravinsky and Bach and Mozart to the White House...