What irked them more was the news that he had made somewhat gauche attempts to suppress the story by threatening Kai Diekmann, editor of Bild, Germany's biggest tabloid daily, with "war" when he learnt that the newspaper planned to print the home-loan story.
That's perhaps the most depressing thing about the whole student-loan story.
If you've heard common student-loan horror stories, you might think that borrowing for school will leave you owing six figures, facing arrest for failure to pay and shackling your family to your debt even if you die.
But his $89,000 in student loans were another story.
Behind many commercial loans is a story of an investment, and sometimes it is of an investment gone bad.
Mr. Mordaunt said he considered suicide after a tough-talking banker threatened to seize his home if he did not repay his loans: "Save the sob story.
While Barclays and Your Credit Union are undeniably competitors on the savings front, it is arguably a different story with loans.
The fourth hypotheses that pertains to loans is a different story.
Like many young entrepreneurs, Vercollone financed the deal in part with loans from relatives (see story, p. 126).
