Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Congressional seat, the clear choice is Joseph P. Kennedy II. After a shaky start in Congress, Kennedy has settled into a key role on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee. Recently, for example, he sponsored a successful amendment that forced savings and loans to disclose their lending patterns on the basis of race to their communities. His opponent Glen Fiscus is not a viable enough candidate to threaten Kennedy's deserved support...
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, popularized this simple idea: give small "peer groups" the credit they need to start their own businesses. They then act as a combination credit committee and collection agency: if one member defaults, the others must pay back the money. The average Grameen loan is $67, and the repayment rate is 98%. Among those groups following his lead was Chicago's Neighborhood Institute, which gave Rickenbacker her loan, formed her peer group and sponsored a 13-week entrepreneurial-trainin g class...
...woke up with a start and realized that I have never, in reality, spent any nights camping on the Alaskan tundra...
That task may be made easier by the depletion of Kwiatkowski's soda can reserves. Bruin split end Mike Geroux, his sprained knee, and his 43 receptions will watch this contest from the sideline. Senior Jimmy Bisson will be making his first Brown start in an attempt to replenish the cola stock...
Soviet and US Students Start Campus Magazine...