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...think that it's in our mutual interest that my views be listened to. We will be able to repay the principal that much sooner if we are permitted to grow. I cannot allow my people to suffer more. For the banks, it is a matter of being able to tell their stockholders that they will get their money back. But in our case it's a question of whether our people will have enough to eat. I will impress upon the banks that this is a different kind of government from that of Marcos, and we expect different treatment...
They have also sought to void von Bulow's interest in his wife's estate and force him to repay any money and return any property he has received from her estate since her first coma...
...These rates put a floor under prices. Farmers can then borrow from the Government at the rate set for their crops, offering their unsold harvest as collateral. If the farmers manage to sell their crops on the market at a price higher than the loan rate, they can repay the loan and keep the difference. But if the growers are offered only a price lower than the loan rate, they can forfeit the crop to the Government as payment of their loans...
...three-year-old University of Pennsylvania plan, which covers many other costs besides tuition. Prospective Penn parents can pay tuition for all four years now at the 1986 annual rate ($11,200), take an unsecured tuition loan of up to $42,000 at 9 1/2% with ten years to repay and enter into a revolving tuition- credit arrangement that lets them borrow as they go along, or arrange credit for up to $6,000 in vouchers that the student can sign like checks at, say, the college bookstore or even the computer shack. Some 1,800 students are using...
...proved even more paralyzing in the economic sphere. Although Aquino's very presence has helped to restore the confidence of the international business community, new investments have been slow to arrive. By one estimate, the government would have to maintain a formidable 6.3% annual growth rate just to repay on schedule a fortune in foreign loans. Meanwhile, roughly 45% of the work force is underemployed, and two of every three Filipinos live below the poverty line...