Word: repayable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the efforts of the Law School to open up as broad as possible a job spectrum to their graduates, students with huge loans to repay and much insecurity about their future stability find lucrative law firm positions tempting, and, in many cases, irresistible...
Over the last seven years, the office has offered an option known as the a Low Income Protection Plan, under which graduates are provided with interest-free loans or "forgiveness," to help them live with heavy Law School debts, she says. The Law School will "forgive," or repay, the difference between the loan repayments due and the percentage of income that the graduate is required to pay, she says...
...plight, post-Turner, shows how escaping a raider can still leave a company seriously wounded. To evade Turner, CBS spent some $1 billion to buy back 20% of its shares. Now the company is selling profitable TV affiliates and its toy division to repay its debt. To further cut costs, CBS fired 74 news-division employees in a single "Thursday massacre" and offered early retirement to 2,000 people...
...sociologist does not consider that it is not affirmative action which is flawed, but rather the rationale provided by some of its supporters. The Jewish student and Beer are right in rejecting any notion that the current generation of white Americans have a responsibility to repay Black Americans for past injustices. Even those Americans whose forefathers were in the United States during Jim Crow and slavery cannot be held accountable for the discrimination of their ancestors, in which they played no part...
...ARGUMENT'S weakness should not be allowed to undermine the need for of benefits from affirmative action. Affirmative action in education holds out a promise of considerable value: not to repay past ills, but to build a faith in education in the Black community, without which any lasting economic advancement is impossible...