Word: repaying
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TRADE. President Nixon had proposed, and the House had passed, new restrictions on textile imports, partly to repay such Southern states as North and South Carolina for support in his election to the presidency. But a band of liberal Senators, led by Oklahoma Democrat Fred Harris and Republicans Charles Percy of Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into...
...pioneered a financing technique that is now standard in the shipping business. Before buying or building a ship, Ludwig would arrange for a client to charter it for up to 20 years. He would then borrow the entire cost of the ship, and repay the loan, plus interest, out of the charter fees. The result: a fleet purchased with other people's money...
...Peterson's report suggests several long-term solutions to the scholarship problem. One that has been suggested elsewhere would allow students to borrow all the money they need from their university or the government, then repay the loan as a percentage of their income for the rest of their lives...
...order to save his son's love life, Louis's father sacrifices his honor, stealing a trumpet from a music store in Billings, Montana. Before winning Serena, Louis resolves to repay his father's debt by working as a trumpeter. One of his jobs is as a trumpeter playing "Row, Row Your Boat" while swimming in front of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston ("Boston, which . . . is famous for its baked beans, its codfish, its tea parties, its Cabots, its Lowells, its Saltonstalls, and its Swan Boats.") He earns fame in Boston, and gets a ten-week...
...comes into the Zoo on a gale one night-blown from Montana to Philly-and falls madly in love with Louis, who wakens her with "Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet. They return to Montana to give his father Louis's accumulated earnings (minus expenses) of $4420.78 with which to repay the music store. Louis and Serena live happily ever after, migrating between Canada and Montana with yearly cross-country tours to show the kids where Louis spent his youth, overcoming his speech defect and restoring grandpa's honor. And every year the swanboatmen treats the parent swans to a night...