Increasing Delinquencies Hit All Credit Markets
New York AP report shows loan delinquencies and defaults rising across almost every lending sector. Banks, credit unions and finance houses face mounting bad debts while management criticized for allowing risky loans. Consumer debt climbs, bankruptcies may top 230000, as inflation and recession squeeze families. yet public resistance to new credit grows while old loans are paid down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
New York City
National Foundation For Consumer Credit
The
Foundation
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Questions Stump Dictionary Experts Reveal Merriam Insights
Springfield AP reports Merriam editors field 2000 letters yearly from diverse readers on word origins and usage. Highlights include boojums from Baja California, Procul Harum as a rock group, Alamo as a proper name, OK origin as all correct, distelfink Dutch barn design, and a quirky slang sense described as slightly eccentric.
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Springfield
Mass
Baja
H. Bosle Woolf
G. C. Merriam Co
Woolf
Poland
Merriam
California
Baja Peninsula
Alamo
Buckingham Place
Merriam-Webster
U S Oil Revenue Proposals Clash Over Windfall Taxes
Washington debates how to tax oil profits as OPEC raised prices. Ford backs windfall tax and a $3-a-barrel tariff while Sen. Bentsen pushes a 60 percent government share from offshore production. Critics warn forecasts overstate gains and call for closing tax loopholes.
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Washington
Saudi Arabia
Iran
U.S
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Ford
Congress
US. Treasury
Administration
The
Treasury
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Bentsen
Interior Department
Charles Percy
R-Ill
University of Maine Portland Gorham hosts Project Impact series
A semester long program at the University of Maine at Portland Gorham features speakers including Robin Morgan Gloria Steinem and Joanne Edgar MS Magazine co founders architect Regi Goldberg and authors Dick Gregory and Warren Farrell The series aims to explore ideas images and opinions with public access events Morgan will give a lecture and poetry reading on February 5 at 8 00 p m in Luther Bonney Auditorium Other events include career and awareness seminars and a film series The first film Crisis Women in Higher Education screens February 4 at 3 and 6 p m in Payson Smith Hall room 303 and February 6 at 7 p m in Bailey Auditorium Gorham campus
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Maine At Portland- Gorham
Robin Morgan
Gloria Steinem
Joanne Edgar
MS Magazine
Regi Goldberg
Dick Gregory
Warren Farrell
UMPG
Impcat
Morgan
Sisterhood
the Atlantic
The
Yale Review
Random House
Luther Bonney
Portland
Payson Smith Hall
Bailey Auditorium
Gorham
News Guild Okays Contract at Providence Journal
The Providence Newspaper Guild voted to accept a new three year contract with the Providence Journal. About 175 members attended. one opposed. The deal includes a 25 percent pay hike over three years, raising the top reporter scale from 291 to 369 weekly by year three. The guild, representing 400 newsroom and related staff, calls the agreement retroactive to January 1.
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Providence, R.1
Providence Newspaper Guild
Providence Journal
Providence Journal-Bulletin
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Dick Danforth
Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Oklahoma
Belgium
Mark Twain
Depe
Indonesia
Nigeria
Tanzania
Malaysia
Burma
Philippines
Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations
Percy
University States “Project Impact
Robert E. Bedard
Tillyer
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Saco
Madeline’s Beauty & Wig Shop
Union St. Sace
Theu
Doris Clappison
Linda Tremblay
Madeline Beaudoin
News Guild
C.B. Lions Club
Lions Club
Saco Avenue
0.C.B
Bob
Shiners
High Street
Biddeford
Lumburr
Phil Spang
Abbott
Choice Commercial Property
Biddeford, Maine
Towle’s Travel Agency
Main ST
Biddyouland Bldg
Maine Air National Guard
Air Guard
Air National Guard
al Paine
Country Rock
Dubois Farm
Arundel
Ray Janson
A& P
Kemper
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Bacon Street
Laverdiere’s Super Drug Stores
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