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