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...Spanish rivals and then snapped up competitors across the border in Portugal. Santander is heavily invested in Latin America, where it has a network of some 3,900 branches and 52,200 employees. In buying Abbey, Santander gets crucial diversification as well as entry into Europe's most profitable loan market. A potential worry for Botin: the British deal is so sweet, a rival bank may try to grab Abbey from his grasp. --By Charles P. Wallace...
...retired power-plant operator in Rowlesburg, W.Va., "moped at a picture of it on his screensaver," says his wife Sandy, also 50, a speech therapist. Don spends three days a week caring for Sandy's mom, who has Alzheimer's. As a thank-you, Sandy took out a loan to buy his dream ride. "I just hold on tight," she says, "and hug his waist and feel the wind...
...contribution, not a penny," says Cahill. "I felt so bad that I wrote out a check for $2,000 and rushed it downstairs so we wouldn't have a completely dry day." Kerry had to make one last big decision--whether to take out a $6.4 million loan on his Boston home, which represented most of his personal fortune, to finance the campaign. His wife may be heir to the Heinz-family fortune, but campaign-finance laws prevent her giving to his campaign more than a $2,000 donation. By law, Kerry could lend himself only his, rather small, share...
...Dorchester neighborhood, also made sure Kerry's longest-standing advisers had a say in campaign strategy--something Kerry wanted as well. His Washington pollster Mark Mellman was the one who first spotted the opportunity for Kerry to revive his dying primary campaign by taking out a $6.4 million personal loan and making a counterintuitive pivot from New Hampshire to Iowa. But before Kerry signed off on the high-risk gambit, the candidate dispatched his old Boston hand Kiley to Iowa to confirm Mellman's numbers...
...Christianity, he believes. After the missionary societies began withdrawing from the area in the 1970s, "those people starved spiritually," he says. "Now we are trying to revive - that is what Malarrpa is all about." Three years ago, Marumba approached the Baptist Union of Western Australia for a $A75,000 loan to buy the old Apex hall, and last year Malarrpa ("true" in the local Wongatha language) was born...