Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply has been received from the White House as yet, but the two expect some sort of answer shortly. They seemed rather unconcerned about the possibilities of their not coming back. "As an immigrant," said Boulukos, "I feel this would be but a small token to repay America for the great opportunity of being one of its citizens...
...pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...radical approach of calling a halt to the perpetual merry-go-round that surprises the economists. The present method of circular borrowing-to-repay-borrowing would probably accomplish almost equivalent results to those of the new scheme, which is, in essence, to stop all borrowing and repayment...
This is, in effect, what the Russians have done. Though they pledge to repay the 265 billion rubles outstanding in twenty years--a promise far from being sacrosanct--inflation and expansion will probably have made this sum insignificant. By 1980 the Soviet gross national product can possibly quadruple from its present value of one trillion rubles. At the legal rate of exchange this is $250 million, but at the actual consumer value of the ruble it is closer to $100 million...
...Vien when he returned from his drive last week to find his garden full of policemen and his house in an uproar. "A miserable little robbery and everyone loses his head," he exclaimed. "It's indecent and ridiculous. France shows us hospitality, and this is how we repay her. We bother the police and we worry the Minister of the Interior...