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...social service and expressed a desire that the CWSP be expanded to allow more community service work in an article he recently wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Higher education can and should enhance its role of service to the nation," wrote Hackney. "The tools of this enhancement--service payback and an expanded work-study program--are by no means the only approaches, but they can help remove some of the critical financial and institutional barriers that preclude wide-scale public service by current college students and recent graduates...
...also a main focus of Fish's present efforts here in the United States. He sees good p.r. enabling the program to "seek additional corporate sponsors as an appealing investment." Corporations must believe that "it [the program] is a worthwhile thing rather than just a dollar-to-dollar payback investment...
Commercial banks at first lent freely to those countries on the basis of their economic promise, granting them liberal payback terms. But by 1982 the banks were sharply curtailing Third World lending. By then it was clear that those countries had difficulties even paying interest on their loans. Not only were they already deeply in debt, but their economies were slowing down because of recession in the industrialized nations. Oil-rich developing countries were also strapped for cash as oil prices dropped...
...back to the winter of 1977 to see one outbreak after another of record-breaking temperatures," said Long-Range Forecaster Donald Gilman. "The odds are against it." But a Chicago department-store sales clerk has her own fatalistic interpretation of the abnormally cold weather: "This is the payback for the little baby winter we had last year...
...Bank will be a boost to that federal agency, which makes loans and loan guarantees for the purchase of American exports with the aim of stimulating U.S. business and creating jobs. The bank has been coming under attack by budget cutters in the Reagan Administration. The $420 million payback will reduce the agency's need to borrow in the credit markets and thus may slightly ease pressure on U.S. interest rates. In addition, the settlement improves the agency's image by paring down its roster of deadbeats. Revolutions like Iran's have resulted in bad loans, including...