Word: repays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have also sought to void von Bulow's interest in his wife's estate and force him to repay any money and return any property he has received from her estate since her first coma...
...These rates put a floor under prices. Farmers can then borrow from the Government at the rate set for their crops, offering their unsold harvest as collateral. If the farmers manage to sell their crops on the market at a price higher than the loan rate, they can repay the loan and keep the difference. But if the growers are offered only a price lower than the loan rate, they can forfeit the crop to the Government as payment of their loans...
...three-year-old University of Pennsylvania plan, which covers many other costs besides tuition. Prospective Penn parents can pay tuition for all four years now at the 1986 annual rate ($11,200), take an unsecured tuition loan of up to $42,000 at 9 1/2% with ten years to repay and enter into a revolving tuition- credit arrangement that lets them borrow as they go along, or arrange credit for up to $6,000 in vouchers that the student can sign like checks at, say, the college bookstore or even the computer shack. Some 1,800 students are using...
...proved even more paralyzing in the economic sphere. Although Aquino's very presence has helped to restore the confidence of the international business community, new investments have been slow to arrive. By one estimate, the government would have to maintain a formidable 6.3% annual growth rate just to repay on schedule a fortune in foreign loans. Meanwhile, roughly 45% of the work force is underemployed, and two of every three Filipinos live below the poverty line...
That fragile civilian government will inherit formidable problems. Famine still afflicts almost one out of every five Sudanese. In addition, the country must cope with more than 650,000 refugees who have fled famine and war in neighboring countries. Repaying the $9 billion foreign debt piled up by Nimeiri will prove equally difficult. In February the International Monetary Fund, citing the government's inability to repay more than $200 million in overdue loans, took the unusual step of declaring Sudan ineligible for additional assistance. The economic pinch forced Suwar al Dahab's 15-member ruling Transitional Military Council to increase...