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...distributing water along the coast, the report said, this area could raise its income from $2.9 billion annually to $8.4 billion. Such industrial and agricultural prosperity could easily repay the costs of the entire project. Said the report: engineering problems would be simple compared to those Southern California encountered in bringing water from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles area...
...Repay a U.S. loan they had previously characterized as a "gift...
...health centers and 33 nursing homes. At the state capital in Raleigh last week, the North Carolina House of Representatives approved a loan fund of $50,000 a year for medical students and nurses willing to take extra work in psychiatry. The rest of the bargain: borrowers will repay their loans by serving in North Carolina mental hospitals...
...began liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto, eight years after the murder of the last of 6,000,000 European Jews; in West Germany only 20,000 of the pre-Hitler Jewish population of 600,000 survives. Some Jews objected to the reparations on the grounds that money could never repay lives, and that Germans should not be allowed to purchase an easing of their conscience. But the important thing about the reparations is that they are a payment voluntarily made by the German government, not imposed upon...
...balcony in Santiago, spread his arms wide to the crowd below and sobbed: "I offer you a loving embrace from the Argentine people -everything we have without seeking anything in return. We come only in search of the love of the marvelous people of Chile; that love will repay us." The crowd cheered...