Word: repaying
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...driving while black," but there are myriad permutations. Actor Danny Glover held a press conference in 1999 because cabdrivers weren't stopping for him in New York City; some called this "hailing while black." In May the American Civil Liberties Union got the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $7,000 it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Neb., airport on the (quite false) theory that it was drug money. The A.C.L.U. called it "flying while black." Dr. Lauren Shaiova, a pain specialist who treats sickle-cell-disease patients at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center, says...
...reluctant to let bad companies fail. In Thailand, Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra has been playing the victim card with claims that globalization and international banking standards are the causes of his country's woes. He has cut back on incentives for foreign investors and balked at forcing companies to repay their debts. Late last year, Taiwan's President Chen ordered banks to keep lines of credit open to delinquent debtors, a move that has put a straitjacket on liquidity and dampened investment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad clings to a peg that has hugely overvalued the ringgit. "It's going...
...proselytizing critics. Crosby, Giddins says, isn't like all those people you don't like (like Al Jolson); he's like those people you like (Armstrong, Sinatra, Elvis). And, oddly, the argument is just about convincing. Crosby did indeed learn from Louis - a debt he would gleefully repay with dozens of recorded duets, frequent invitations to Armstrong to appear on "Kraft Music Hall" and the securing of star billing for Armstrong in Crosby's 1936 film "Pennies from Heaven" (at the time a rare plum for a black performer...
...exploration in protected areas of Alaska and allowing carcinogenic levels of arsenic to remain in drinking water, the past 100 days have brought a litany of environmental disasters. Bush’s transparent reliance upon big business has forced him to jeopardize the U.S. environment in order to repay their support for his campaign...
...column "Don't Waste Your Breath" [DIVIDING LINE, April 2], we need to take care of a previous debt. Native Americans had an entire hemisphere stolen from them, and they suffered under a virtual "open hunting season" from the time Columbus appeared on the horizon. To repay Native Americans for our ill-gotten gains would mean we would have to give them--well, everything. JIM OSBORNE Indianapolis...