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...trial scenes, Shakespeare made them as airtight as a Supreme Court brief-perhaps most notably in The Merchant of Venice. At issue is Shylock's 3,000-ducat loan to Antonio, who borrowed the money to help Bassanio sue for Portia's hand. If Antonio fails to repay in three months, says Shylock...
...owes his equivocal success to his good looks, even though there are less contingent and less glamorous means of escaping Turkey. And occasionally a trite episode mars the credibility of the story. A fellow immigrant whom Stavros aids early in the picture, for instance, inevitably pops up to repay the favor later...
Bucky is indebted to S.I.U. for providing him with both a home base and a springboard, and Fuller's fame has helped repay the debt, Sixteen years ago, there were only 3,013 students on the Carbondale campus: today there are no fewer than 18,201 students and a faculty of 1,154. And the university has just been awarded a $10 million, three-year space project, which Bucky will head...
...political connections never failed him, and for good reason. President Monroe was so deeply in debt to Astor personally that he had to sell his slaves to repay him. In return, Monroe rescinded several executive orders damaging to Astor, including one forbidding the employment of foreigners in the fur trade (the American Fur Co. employed more foreigners than any other house). Under pressure from the Astor lobby, Congress obligingly laid extra duties on imported nutria skins, cony, wool and Russian hares, all of which competed with Astor's beavers and muskrats in the hatmaking industry...
...five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates the cost of the Campeche project at $1,000,000, which the landowning peasants will repay at a rate of $1,200 per family -the first payment...