Word: payments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facing trial after a caper at a waterfront Coral Gables home. State agents watched while Maristany stood guard and Acosta opened the meter box on the outside of the house and turned back the dial. They were arrested when they went to the front door to receive payment for saving Real Estate Broker James Carbonell at least $180 on his monthly bill. Soon after, a utility representative handed Carbonell a $4,000 bill for six months of unpaid electric service...
...main hurdle to reducing federal spending has become the nature of the budget itself. Most federal spending is now off limits to even the sharpest accountant's pencils. So-called uncontrollable budget items, such as Social Security, Medicare and payment of interest on the national debt, gobble up an increasing share of federal money. Many of these are entitlement programs for which Congress has passed laws establishing the level of benefits that each person receives. Indexing social programs so that recipients will not feel the pinch of inflation has made them still more expensive. In a maddening vicious circle...
...burn away alloys. Before the dealers are paid, they must wait until the metal is melted down, assayed, and formed into bars by the refiners. In the mean time, dealers take bank loans to finance their inventories. But what used to be a wait of a few weeks for payment has been lengthening to four or five months as the smelters dig out from under growing backlogs. One Manhattan dealer bought so much silver and gold, and will now have to wait so long for payment, that he has been forced to negotiate an emergency line of credit to tide...
...when Filartiga arrived at Harvard three years later. The government has revoked the license of the lawyer representing Filartiga, then imprisoned him. Without a lawyer, Filartiga will undoubtedly lose the trial, and, according to Paraguayan law, the loser must pay the damages and the other's legal fees. Such payment will cost him the clinic...
...hope of company officials, who this week kick off a test campaign in northern Utah that promises an unheard-of money-back guarantee if buyers are not satisfied with any 1980 model Chrysler Corp. car or small truck. Anybody who meets normal credit tests can make a down payment, take home a new Chrysler vehicle for 30 days and, if not fully satisfied, return it. He will then get back his down payment, the cash value of any used car that he might have traded in, plus any fees that he paid for the title...