Word: repaying
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Giannino, a graduate of Sommerville High School, says he wants to serve on the school committee to repay the debt he feels he owes his community. "The Somerville schools gave me a whole lot and I feel the best way to give back is to serve in this position on the school committee," says Giannino...
Meanwhile, Harvard had avoided the tag of "scandal" in its dealings with the government, conducting an independent audit of Harvard Medical School billing practices and volunteering to repay the government for $500,000 in questionable expenditures. That cooperative move took some bite out of the U.S. General Accounting Office...
Meanwhile, Harvard had avoided the tag of "scandal" in its dealings with the government, conducting an independent audit of Harvard Medical School billing practices and volunteering to repay the government for $500,000 in questionable expenditures. That cooperative move took some bite out of the U.S. General Accounting Office...
...South Africa have pulled out, and the value of their holdings has shrunk from $2.5 billion to $1 billion. South Africa currently suffers a net capital outflow of about $2 billion a year; money needed to build up the country's industry has to be sent abroad instead to repay foreign loans. Partly in consequence, the once booming economy has stagnated. By some estimates, output of goods and services over the past 10 years has grown on average only around 1% a year (with an actual decline in 1990), vs. perhaps 4% that might have been registered without sanctions. Predictions...
...speak to him afterward, although they later reconciled. "The sense of having part of her brother inside her created tremendous tensions," says Renee Fox, a medical-sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The tyranny of the gift: "It was a feeling of overwhelming debt that she could not repay." Conversely, one kidney donor became so depressed after the recipient did not thrive that he killed himself in despair...