Word: repays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other's hearts, rending them with tense words and rebuilding cautiously and slowly at the same time. "I never had a father...it's my right, isn't it. Isn't it?" the daughter demands, unassailable in her emotion, inconsolable in her situation. "There's no way I can repay you; there's no use trying. Let's just try to forget everything and start over again," offers the father, desperately. And the daughter assents with her silence, turning her back on a void that will never be filled, looking ahead. There is no neat ending here; no banality heaped...
...Percy criticized Lance, the former Budget Director accused of financial improprieties, Powell leaked a tale that Percy had regularly flown on a corporate jet belonging to Bell & Howell, which he once headed. The jet, as it turned out, did not exist. Powell also claimed that Percy had failed to repay bank loans; Percy produced a canceled check in refutation. Says Powell: "I did not make things better. I may have made them worse...
Departments that run deficits often borrow from the University and must repay the loans with interest, which currently stands at about 7 per cent. Gerrity said the Faculty will probably have to borrow money from the Corporation to cover expenses incurred under the current budget...
...freeze payment on foreign debts, even though such moves endanger the profitability and, eventually, the stability of financial institutions. With debts of all borrowing countries to foreign banks now totaling $600 billion, the Polish crisis has raised new fears about the ability of many hat-in-hand nations to repay their loans. Turkey, for example, would be virtually insolvent without West German assistance. Among the developing countries, Brazil has run up the largest foreign debt, about $57 billion, mostly to pay for OPEC oil. The crushing debt has hindered Brazil's attempts to expand its industrial base...
...Washington or private banks were to bail out Poland again, it could be taken as a vote of confidence in the Soviet Union: lenders would be saying that they expect the Polish economy to be nursed back to health by Moscow so that it will eventually be able to repay its loans. In the international financial community the prevailing sentiment is that the West cannot afford to turn down Poland's money request for fear of a more pronounced Soviet intervention in the country's internal affairs. Says Lawrence Brainard, a Bankers Trust vice president: "The real issue...