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...made the last payment on the house I today," cries Willy Loman's widow at the conclusion of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. "We're free and clear." Many Americans still consider owning a home a virtual birthright, as well as a necessary inflation hedge. But today people are being forced to find ingenious and complex schemes to beat the high cost of achieving Loman's dream...
...sprawl across an area the size of 109 football fields. In partnership with the French firm Bouygues, Blount Inc., of Montgomery, Ala. (fiscal 1981 sales: $651 million), has captured a coveted $1.7 bil lion contract to build Saudi Arabia's new University of Riyadh. Last week the first payment on the deal, a check for $343 million, was hand-carried from Riyadh to New York City...
Some potential relief came two weeks ago, when commercial bank representatives meeting in London recommended that Warsaw be allowed to delay payment on $1.05 billion due before July 1. But that limited rollover agreement, as one Western banker put it, was like "applying a Band-Aid to a patient in the intensive care unit." Ultimately, Poland's creditors may have no choice but to shore up their profligate client. Since Warsaw has almost no recoverable assets abroad to offset losses, a default would be nearly as costly for the lenders as for the Poles themselves. Summed up a British...
...been working on a financing deal to buy a piece of equipment for one of our divisions. On the first day we got a super rate, it was a great idea, sounded easy. Let's do it. Class is over. But the seller had never decided what the payment terms would be. It is very frustrating to have a deal go bad. Either you didn't protect yourself adequately, or you didn't think things through. You think very highly of yourself, and you don't want to spend time worrying about boring details. But that...
Crimson:How would you change the reimbursment program to save money? Relman: The fee system should be changed so that there is not such a high payment for technical procedures as compared with personal services. As it is now, a few minutes spent peering through the end of some sort of instrument...is reimbursed at a rate that may be literally an order or two of magnitude greater than time spent, talking to the patient, examing the patient, counselling the patient or staying up with a sick patient at a hospital. These kinds of personal services that require...