The second is the length of the loan (expressed in years or months).
First, its reserves for shaky student loans, expressed as a share of tuition accounts receivable, rose to almost 38percentt in the first quarter of 2008 from 35.4percentt for all of 2007.
When Mary Hartley, 49, an unemployed woman drowning in $91,000 in student loans, expressed skepticism about false promises after Dr. Dean's recent talk at Taso's restaurant in Oskalossa, Iowa, he urged her, "Go see what I did in Vermont".
In speeches, Mr. Rubio, a Florida Republican, spoke of his prudent plan for using the cash to finally pay off his law school loans, expressing relief that he no longer owed "a lady named Sallie Mae," as he once called the lender.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said earlier this month that it would launch an investigation into bank-originated small-dollar loans, expressing concern over the use of third-party software used to manage the loans.
At the same time, the loan-to-value ratio — the loan amount expressed as a percentage of a home's value — rose a bit, meaning that banks were willing to lend more and require smaller down payments.
Five former regulators who encountered Mr. Hohlt during the savings and loan fiasco expressed dismay and surprise that he had been hired by the chairman of a bank that has received tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer assistance, and voiced concerns about what exactly he had been hired to do.
Loan growth expresses the change in the current year's loans as a percentage of those of the previous years.
Celtic - where he has also been on loan - have expressed their interest but Bellamy is understood to prefer a move that allows him to stay in the Premier League.
Maryland Gov. Harry R. Hughes, seeking to calm depositors in the 102 state-chartered savings and loan associations, expressed confidence Wednesday that two or three of the larger institutions would qualify for federal deposit insurance by the end of the week.
d Area planted under grant and loan schemes expressed as percentage of total new private planting.
