Economic Conditions Affecting Tobacco and Peanut Producers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, March 23, 1987, Fayetteville, NC.

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Page 132 - The federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract): because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program: or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
Page 1 - OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES ROSE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Mr. ROSE.
Page 2 - The present Administration in Washington provides a close parallel. It has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army.
Page 117 - Accounting by Debtors and Creditors for Troubled Debt Restructurings. Paragraph 2 of Statement 1 5 defines troubled debt restructuring as follows: A restructuring of debt constitutes a troubled debt restructuring ... if the creditor for economic or legal reasons related to the debtor's financial difficulties grants a concession to the debtor that it would not otherwise consider.
Page 134 - Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided that the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract); because all or part of the applicant's income is derived from any public assistance program; or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
Page 50 - ... much your coming here today. Mr. FINN. May I say, the views that I have expounded here are those of the entire committee of which I happen to be chairman. I have set out the qualifiactions of those persons and eacli of them is a far better lawyer than I. I am merely being their mouthpiece today and I thank you very much for the courtesy you have extended to me and to Mr. Stringer. Mr. CREECH. The subcommittee will reconvene at 2 :30 pm Thank you. (Whereupon, at 1 :13 pm, the subcommittee was...
Page 51 - Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I thank you for the opportunity to appear before...
Page 114 - Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
Page 83 - OF DALLAS R. SMITH, DIRECTOR, TOBACCO AND PEANUTS DIVISION, AGRICULTURAL STABILIZATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICE, US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ACCOMPANIED BY ROBERT MILLER, GROUP LEADER, TOBACCO AND PEANUTS GROUP, COMMODITY ANALYSIS DIVISION Mr.
Page 122 - ... to fully or partially satisfy a debt, including a transfer resulting from foreclosure or repossession. 2. Grant an equity interest to the lender to fully or partially satisfy a debt, unless the equity interest is granted pursuant to existing terms for converting the debt into an equity interest. 3. Modify the terms of a debt by: - Reducing the stated interest rate for a period of years, up to the remaining original life of the debt. - Extending the maturity date at a stated interest rate lower...

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