The Swedish government offered to guarantee the loan on the condition that Saab use it to develop environmentally friendly cars.
It did, however, offer to guarantee up to $1.2 billion in financing for one of Mr. Silverstein's towers.
The developer, who has not offered to guarantee those savings, said in a meeting Monday that he would invest $75 million.
Ideally, the government would have raised that money from Congress and parked the toxic assets in a discrete "bad bank", or offered to guarantee them.
Dealers said Central Bank officials had offered to guarantee a tiny profit if they would sell the pound at a rate of 250.
Snapple had offered to guarantee the schools $33 million over five years, which was at least $6 million below offers from two competitors.
The company, based in Brescia, Italy, is being investigated on charges that it tried to hide losses and offered to guarantee investments for favored clients.
Mr. Karzai had offered to guarantee the safety of the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar if Mr. Omar agreed to negotiate for a peaceful settlement.
The commission, the executive agency of the European Union, said it was granting temporary approval for 1.2 billion euros, or $1.6 billion, of guarantees for Banque PSA Finance after France offered to guarantee 7 billion euros of its borrowing.
On the phone, Grisha had told her about Mitin, the real-estate developer who'd offered to guarantee the first issue of loans, to put up his own money if a housing market in some province collapsed.
