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...South Korea. The G.I.s are typically paid up to $5,000 to marry Koreans and bring them back to Fort Hood, Texas, where they divorce them for an equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic since the late 1980s, but it still continues, and crime rings are now supplanting some of the Korean...
...many cases, it's not a call. It's a personal meeting," says Taylor. "Most people don't have to be heavily solicited. They see this as a time to repay Harvard for the rewards they got out of Harvard...
...raise $200 million on the Milan stock exchange. But the Gulf War scared off investors, and the plans had to be dropped. Finally, the Aga Khan hired Goldman Sachs last year to sell off some of Ciga's lesser hotels in hopes of raising roughly $175 million to repay loans and stanch losses. One of the few buyers that stepped forward was Situr, an Italian property group, but before a deal could be struck, Situr alleged that Ciga's books contained serious irregularities and dropped out of the negotiations...
Corlette said she approved of the provision by which graduates could repay loans as a percentage of their salaries. She said that, although the College does not currently have such a system, other parts of the University...
...When the real estate market went into the tank, the companies couldn't repay the loans," says Burdge. "Since he was in the companies and guaranteed them, we got a judgment against him for defaulting...