The proportion of them requiring a downpayment of at least 25% fell only slightly to 51%.
The president could outline a smaller bill -- strong on insurance reforms with a good downpayment on extending coverage.
The downpayment on the planes turned out to be mostly financed with retroactive payments from the leased planes, says the suit.
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Many say this is a downpayment on Martin Luther King's dream.
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In contrast, in 1950, the median downpayment for FHA first mortgages was 35%, for Veterans Administration first mortgages, 8%, and 35% for non-government conventional first mortgages.
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Beyond trying to boost supply, the central government is clamping down on demand via property taxes, higher downpayment requirements, and caps on how many properties residents can own.
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From June 15th Indonesia's central bank says it will require those who borrow money from a bank to buy a car to make a minimum downpayment of 30%.
Imagine current users of the iphone 5 having to pay Apple a downpayment now for an iphone 9, due out in 10 years, even if it never comes to the market.
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They typically get a 7% discount on the developer's price, shell out 5% of the property's value as downpayment, then turn around and sell the uncompleted flat to someone else at the full price.
Since the CME raised the margin downpayment required of gold derivative traders by one-quarter early in August ( widely reported, but hey, pundits take holidays too) leverage across-the-board in New York gold futures stands at 25-to-1.
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Over the last two years, the government has raised downpayment and mortgage requirements, imposed a property tax for the first time in Shanghai and Chongqing, increased construction of low-cost housing and enacted home-purchase restrictions in about 40 cities.
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And, like other shares, but unlike mutual funds, they can be bought on margin (ie, for an initial downpayment) or sold short (ie, borrowed and sold in the hope that the price will fall) which allows much more sophisticated trading strategies.
That would just be a downpayment on the desirable budget cuts, as federal spending grew by one-seventh as a percent of GDP during the Bush years, and by another one-fourth already in the Obama years, less than half the time for the Bush increase.
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