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...tracking down a borrower after he has graduated and perhaps moved away. Most important, unlike the majority of consumer loans, student loans are not secured by collateral. Asks one frustrated loan administrator in Illinois: "If the kid doesn't pay up, what are we going to do, repossess his diploma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Rip-Offs | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

Months later, at their engagement party, the wild-eyed Troy enters to repossess his wife. Boldwood guns down his rival and is taken to prison, leaving the way for Bathsheba and Oak, who has stood patiently in the wings until the melodrama played itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Vivid Victoriana | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...might prompt one to wonder how any healthy, adult male could fail to attain sufficient speed to catch frail Miss Hepburn clacking along in four-inch heels. In any case, it shall ultimately transpire that Cary is working for the govt. of the US of A (trying merely to repossess its rightful funds) and that the real killer is Audrey's trusted CIA agent, who isn't the CIA agent after all, but only borrowed his office while the fellow was out to lunch. I'd guess that in the climactic footage, Cary, enveloping his new fiancee in a protective...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Charade | 3/3/1964 | See Source »

After V-E day, the Allies dismembered Farben, splitting off the large Hoechst and B.A.S.F. branches and leaving Bayer with only its badly damaged plant at Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Bayer Bounces Back | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Evidently after undergoing a long period of unpleasant self-appraisal, the singer stages an attempt to repossess Johnny from Judy. At some sort of high school social entertainment, she approaches a second, and totally innocent boy and kisses him on the check. She then steps back and waits for a reaction from Johnny who promptly smacks the unknowing dope in the nose, "because he loves me, that's why." And then, it seems, it's Judy's turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVIL MELODY | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

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