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Word: repaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Money issues are a common source of strife between brothers and sisters: Why wasn't that loan repaid? Who can afford the bigger house? How should the family business be run? Behavior outside the family's value system can also trip the switch: coming out of the closet, marrying interracially or converting to a new religion. Then there are cutoffs linked to extreme emotional states, the reasons for which--such as untreated mental illness, substance abuse, incest and violence--may never be brought out into the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Break Up With Our Siblings | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...government programs were lending millions to developing countries. The borrowing picked up in the 1970s, when many of these same nations--happy to pay higher interest rates in exchange for cash--turned to global banks for loans. Gleaming skyscrapers and industrial plants sprouted--all bought with money to be repaid when these nations exploded into international markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Agenda Of Debt Relief | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Poor Fitzgerald was not much fun. He got drunk at the Murphys' villa and made scenes and smashed their expensive crystal wine glasses. He repaid their hospitality by writing a novel that made out his hostess, Sarah Murphy, to be a mental case who had been incestuously abused by her own father. Some bread-and-butter note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Voracious VCR Is a Reminder of Real Fun | 7/18/2000 | See Source »

...payday lending, where annual interest rates would make Mob loan sharks of an earlier era blush in embarrassment. The business flourishes in working-class neighborhoods, where people run out of money before their next payday. The lender may charge up to $40 for a $200 loan to be repaid in two weeks. That's an annual interest rate of 521%. In exchange for the advance, the lender requires the borrower to write a check for $240, dated to coincide with his next paycheck. When the two weeks are up, the borrower may repay the loan or roll it over into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

Berman said that FAS has always assumed that the Inn would have to operate as hotel until its debt was repaid in full...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Could Take Over Hotel At Any Time | 2/23/2000 | See Source »

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