The company said it drew down about $880 million of committed loan facilities for general corporate purposes, including the retirement of about $825 million of commercial paper obligations as they become due.
Fee prefers dealing with paper obligations rather than the property ownership headaches of, as she puts it, "termites and trash".
The article also posed serious journalistic questions: What makes an academic feud news, and what is the paper's obligation to try to figure out who is right?
I was completely stunned, however, by your description of the paper's obligation in this case as "presenting both the good and evil that armed conflict can bring".
Explaining grants of anonymity in ways friendly to the source, to get the source to speak at all or for any other reason, should not trump the paper's obligation to report truthfully and accurately.
Mr. Keller's assessment of the privacy considerations and the paper's obligation to serve the public interest in a nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court seemed to the public editor to be worth sharing with a broader audience.
When a young reporter called my wife from a mourning Newtown neighborhood and shakily related how a man had yelled at her, called her names, and told her to get out, her editor reminded her of the paper's obligation to inform tens of thousands of readers of the who, what, when, where, and why of the story.
Painful though it may be, the paper has an obligation to follow the story where it leads, even to the pope's door.
Here's a functionally equivalent alternative: have the Treasury sell pieces of paper labeled "moral obligation coupons", which declare the intention of the government to redeem these coupons at face value in one year.
But facing a flood of documents on the internet, the papers had an obligation to publish well-digested accounts of the material.
