Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long doled out billions of dollars in pensions and bonuses on the theory that it should repay able-bodied veterans, their widows and dependent children for time spent and privations suffered in the armed services in time of war. Last week this theory was examined by a seven-member commission appointed by President Eisenhower and headed by Old Soldier (and onetime Veterans Administrator) Omar Bradley.* The commission's unanimous conclusion: the theory is nonsense and payments to nondisabled veterans gradually should be eliminated...
...Hell's Canyon dam would repay its cost--plus interest", challenged one of the attackers. The figure at the piano lapsed from Stravinsky to Gershwin. "Besides, think of the rise in kilowatts...
...program," Graham stated, "will be to convince high school seniors that it is financially possible to get a college education." Graham estimated that students will have to repay the loans during the ten years following graduation at the rate of about $30 per month...
...fund would provide grants and liberal long-term loans to nations planning basic development projects like roads, dams, hospitals, and schools. In many countries, some of these projects are underway now with substantial outside aid, but there is an increasing desire on the part of have-not nations to repay loans or grants in the future. SUNFED has remained unfed because of the refusal of some Western nations, particularly the U.S., to contribute to the fund before a workable disarmament plan makes smaller defense budgets practicable. Disarmament appears so distant, however, that the United Nations should delay the establishment...
...college graduates usually earn substantially more than non-graduates, scholarship holders should also almost feel morally obligated to repay part of the money they were given for their education," Harris added...