Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The loan Cross had acquired carried an adjustable interest rate, fluctuating from 12% to 13%. He also got another loan, this time from the Small Business Administration. Yearly crop planning loans added to his indebtedness. Much of his small profit went to meeting his interest obligations. "When you have to...
The Administration failed to quell the uproar by announcing, the day after Stockman's testimony, a change in the rules under which it is offering $650 million in loan guarantees to banks that renew credit to debt-burdened farmers (the previous rules were so unattractive to rural bankers that they...
This view has taken strong hold among a significant segment of women religious, who are in the vanguard of the drive for fuller rights for women. American women religious have changed greatly since they began shedding their wimples and bibs and emerged from the convents into the streets. For one...
Increasingly during her last year in the West, Svetlana suffered from bouts of depression. She was haunted by her mother's suicide; as a child, she had evidently perceived it as a punishment. "My mother shot herself on the night of Nov. 8/9," she wrote to a friend in Britain...
Some successful women leaders, Margaret Thatcher to name one, are gender neutral: they do not speak for the hopes and concerns of women any more than a male leader would. But Ferraro ran for Vice President as a feminist--and as a symbol of the transformation in the lives of...