The new loan would increase the load, making repayment hard unless the economy is growing fast.
It took too long to recognise that Boris Yeltsin's first government deserved trust, pressing it too hard on debt repayments and being too stingy with aid.
Its officials have worked hard to secure loan repayment agreements from the major borrowers and shareholders, but it has not been easy.
There was no easy answer as to how hard to press for repayment, and Hoover decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to get Roosevelt to work with him and advocate a common position on the debts.
Those who successfully reach the U.S. dedicate six months to two years of hard labor to debt repayment.
It's hard to protest loan repayments while one is officially predicting a budget in the black.
Other expenses hitting classrooms hard include Public Finance Initiative (PFI) repayments on deals signed years ago and increased responsibility for pupils with special needs.
An extended period of research training will suppress earnings for several years, and the lower salaries characteristic of academic medicine make loan repayment much harder.
OECD figures show that UK real wages fell by 10.4% between 2007 and 2015, making the task of keeping up debt repayments harder.
That goal is undermined when crushing repayment burdens in hard times actually push many people to the very margins of society.
