Issued during a period of historically low interest rates--for adjustable-rate mortgages, they clocked in below 4% in 2003--many mortgages allowed buyers to pay only the interest on a loan for a certain period of time, or pay down very little on loan principal.
Because stock ownership, even by large institutional investors, is so widely dispersed, the potential return an investor can get by being an activist shareholder is too low to justify spending his or her time and money on efforts to hold down unnecessary pay and spending.
So I laid out a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, and then some -- a plan that not only pays for the bill to put folks back to work to raise our growth rate, but to also pay down more of our debt over time.
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Her spokesperson at the time advised that Lil Kim was working to pay down her debt.
Every time those lines cross down, the company had to use reserve funds to pay dividends.
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Still, for aggressive investors with a long time horizon, investing early in these countries should pay big dividends down the road.
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Junior year, I worked part-time at a local PR firm, while simultaneously holding down two waitressing jobs to try to pay off my credit card debt from a semester spent in London.
You hope to increase your retirement savings, save for education, increase your emergency reserves, pay down debt and revise your estate planning documents, but there is only so much time in the day and money in your wallet.
What I also said at the time was we are then going to make sure, number one, that we pay down whatever additional deficit had been added as a consequence of the Recovery Act and other steps that we had to take last year.
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So last week, I laid out a plan to pay for the American Jobs Act, and to bring out -- down our debt over time.
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And Tottenham were made to pay for that miss as Ledley King brought down Balotelli in the final minute of added on time and the Italian made no mistake from 12 yards.
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Schlecker, a chain of discount chemists, recently shut down some shops and sacked the workers, but at the same time opened bigger ones with temporary staff at lower pay.
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