Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sword. Robert Miller, executive vice president of Congress Financial Corp., a commercial lending institution, supports the Bildisco decision but finds the growth of bankruptcies disturbing. Says he: "Any time a company makes a bad business deal, whether it's a union contract or a lease, it can resort to Chapter...
...touch of a button. "Before I installed this carrousel, we couldn't even find the dogs," cracks Robbins. "None of our cooks would stay. My wife's clothes filled up all their closets too." Though the new arrangement accommodates 700 garments, it holds only evening dresses, resort wear and luncheon clothes. The overflow still fills the help's closets...
...Department of Education used threats of financial cutoffs as a last resort to deter discrimination, but no university has ever lost federal funds...
...pulls into the Hurley's yard while Kevin is felling a tree; Quane is crushed by the falling trunk. One of Kevin's other friends, the misogynist veterinarian Festus O'Flaherty, arrives safety on the far but will have nothing to do with Kevin's sister. Kevin and maureen resort to hiring Billy Snoddy, a working man who was Maureen's only other childhood boyfriend, to play the part of surrogate. Snoddy is a thoroughly creepy character who, after discovering Kevin and Maureen in bed together, can only relish his knowledge and position. He becomes more noxious to Kevin when...
While Sallie Mae has grown to be the predominant secondary market for student loans many higher education sources say the company has become preoccupied with turning profits. David Longenecher of the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board a $100 million "last resort lender" to students who can't get loans anywhere else says. "We're kind of critical of the way in which (Sallie Mae) has done business which is on a very profit oriented basis. Its profit motive seem to have taken precedence over its public purpose...