Word: repay
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...truth, Egypt probably was not planning to repay the old Soviet loan anyway. But the maneuver was typical of Moscow's new posture. Says William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, who served on the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter: "There is clearly a new style and a greater degree of energy in the Soviet attitude toward the Middle East." This is characterized, says Quandt, by a "new, experimental attitude" in which the Soviets are making "simultaneous approaches to the Palestine Liberation Organization, to Syria, Egypt, Israel and in the gulf...
...indicates because the country is now an international debtor. In the current issue of the quarterly Foreign Affairs, Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, a former chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, estimates that during the 1990s the U.S. will need to generate $60 billion annually just to repay the interest and principle on its burgeoning foreign debt. According to Washington Economist Bergsten, the pressure will thus be on to create a $200 billion improvement in the American trade balance. That is liable to add to the considerable trade ferment on Capitol Hill. As Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...
...million. Some offerings are larger in spirit than in dollar value. A former federal employee who felt guilty about copying private letters on a Government duplicating machine sent in $20 last year. He figured the copying cost came to $5, but he sent more "because the Bible says to repay fourfold...
Police charged Strasos with obtaining money under false pretenses, but said the charge would likely be dropped if Strasos would repay the bank...
...just going to give [the money] back over the weekend to repay the bank and the error is going to be rectified," he said. PRINCETON...