Word: swap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debt-for-scholarship" swap means that Harvard buys part of the country's debt at a discounted rate from U.S. banks. The University then forgives the debt in exchange for the country setting up scholarships to the school...
Nancy S. Pyle of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) says that her office is hoping to complete one or two more debt-for-scholarship swaps before the end of the academic year. As part of the internationalization effort that has been one of Bok's special interests, HIID created the firstever such swap last summer with Ecuador. Recently a similar deal was worked out with Mexico...
...activists because, in many respects, the feud is self-perpetuating: a revolting action by one side provokes an even more offensive gesture by the other. Although the conflict can claim deep historical roots, by now it has degenerated into a fruitless exercise in competition as both camps swap insults and accusations...
...Debt-for-nature" swaps are the method of the moment for well-heeled environmentalists wishing to put parts of the Third World off limits to development. If it works with debt-straitened countries, why not with similarly strapped companies? That's the reasoning behind the latest swap plan, intended to protect a 2,900-acre redwood forest in Northern California's Humboldt County...
While your Patriots were knocking Scuds out of the sky, we found some new toys of our own. Sanyo has a voice-operated car-stereo system that will swap CDs or summon a radio traffic report on command. Sharp has a new microwave with a built-in blender that will mash potatoes while they cook. Fidelity Electronics came out with a wristwatch that doubles as a biological clock by telling you the best time of the month to get pregnant. It sells...