Word: repaying
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...also offer thanks to my anonymous helper. After hearing my plea, the woman in the seat in front of me offered me a $10 bill, which I needed to take a cab from one interview to the next. When I asked her for her name so that I could repay her, she would not tell me, but insisted that I take the money. This woman made a huge difference in my day--her generosity lifted my spirits and allowed me focus on my interview instead of stressing about how I would get to my next one. I wish I could...
...Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss of the financial revision, which included nearly $400 million of previously unreported losses: "It is certainly disappointing...
...imitated his life. Fifteen years after his high school English teacher told him he'd never make it as a writer, he took revenge in his first screenplay, a dark comedy called Killing Mrs. Tingle. The script got optioned, and the failing Los Angeles actor spent his windfall to repay college loans and lease an Infiniti. But Tingle languished, and by 1995 Williamson was facing the cruel truth: he was not a rising star but a 30-year-old dog walker and word-processing temp, with escalating debt and an old teacher who might have been right...
...money to pay off. You will thus inherit a large amount of federal government bonds that you will have to pay off yourselves. We don't even pay the interest on those bonds but instead pay the interest by additional federal bonds that you will also have to repay...
...federal government is "softer, gentler and, most important, less expensive and easier to repay," Nixon says...