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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Jersey residential builder, Calton Inc., has an antidote: through its "Peace of Mind Guarantee Program" it promises skittish home buyers that if they lose their jobs due to economic conditions within a year of closing, Calton will cover mortgage payments up to $1,500 a month for six months or until the owner returns to work. Says newlywed Wendy Goldberg, a computer instructor who will soon close on a $150,000 home: "The idea of taking all our funds and running them dry to buy a house was very scary. At least this way we'll have a place...
Most Overleveraged Spin-Off Donald Trump's securities were revealed to be guilt-edged when he went public with an illicit dividend, model Marla Maples. Ivana's projections for a divorce settlement plummeted when the Donald's teetering real estate empire had to give credit where credit was due. Principle was lacking all round. Interest dwindled...
...February proceeds from some rather basic arithmetic. By last week the U.S. had 280,000 troops in the gulf theater. An additional 150,000 are scheduled to join them. But because the military's transportation systems are overloaded, some ground forces now in Europe and the U.S. are not due in Saudi Arabia until late January. Even if all of them were in place by the U.N.'s cutoff date, it would take two or three weeks to acclimatize the new arrivals...
Shirley Wynn of Miami wrote to Coral Gables Federal Savings and Loan last July to tell the bank that it made a mistake in computing the interest due on her mortgage, overcharging her $1,464 in the course of three years. The bank apologized and refunded the overpayment. Wynn was one of the lucky ones. According to a congressional review and a study by a former federal auditor, John Geddes, thousands of others across the nation with adjustable-rate mortgages may have been overcharged. Basing his estimate on an examination of 7,000 loan accounts, Geddes says a third...
...been waiting for New York writer Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul since a 2,000-page manuscript was delivered in 1976. Brodkey, who began writing the book nearly 30 years ago, has been revising and arguing with publishers ever since. His "exploration of American consciousness" is now due in late...