Word: repayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have raised this question. The grounds for its suspicions are somewhat less clear. But there is no question that James McDougal was one of Clinton's money raisers. In particular, it is known that he held a fund raiser in 1985 and came up with $35,000 to help repay Clinton for a $50,000 loan that the Governor had made to his own campaign fund the previous year (making personal loans to their campaigns is a common practice among politicians). There is some suspicion that at least part of the money may have come from Madison's depositors rather...
...Some of the asserted accomplishments are still incomplete. Anticrime and campaign-finance-reform bills passed the House and Senate in different versions that must be reconciled by conference committees next year; it is far from certain how strong the final measures will be. A law enabling students to repay college loans with volunteer national service, often listed as a success, applies to so few people that it is really only tokenism. Even the Brady bill, as enacted, has some loose ends. In the last-minute wrangling, Republicans won a token concession: they can get a vote next February...
Coach Frank "Happy" Dobbs is in his third year,and after two tough seasons, he and his team areready to repay old debts. "Our toughest opponentis ourselves," Dobbs said. "This is a talentedteam who will be competitive in every game...
...most important thing we earn is your trust." That Prudential Securities advertising slogan rang a bit hollow last week after the company agreed to pay the largest penalty ever levied against a brokerage for defrauding small investors. Prudential said it would repay at least $330 million to customers across the U.S. who lost money on the company's limited partnerships in the 1980s. The firm will pay another $41 million in fines. Even those hefty sums might be little more than a down payment: in settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Prudential said it will fully compensate all investors...
...Marshall Plan for the Middle East, in order to help resettle almost a million Palestinian refugees as well as a similar number of Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. I believe within 15 years a peaceful, prosperous Middle East will be able not only to repay the sponsors of such a Marshall Plan but even to extend material aid to other, less privileged parts of the world...