Most loans were secured by land and rolled over perpetually.
Her close-cropped hair, perpetually wrapped in a scarf, a cardigan or a towel secured with a piece of jewelry, her skirts jury-rigged contraptions, sometimes worn upside down, she stands on the scale and reads the numbers through a pair of binoculars.
It may not be enough to secure the perpetually ratings-beleaguered comedy a seventh season, but Fey and her team definitely succeeded at besting themselves, as Live from Studio 6H was well superior to its predecessor.
Pitching themselves somewhere between Abramovich's belief that he can perpetually rip things up and start again while continuing to win things (which appears to have cost him Guardiola) and the safety-first approach of Ivan Gazidis and Arséne Wenger to making no sudden movements at Arsenal (likewise), City have secured their new quarry.
Soon, the Fosters are spinning all round town in cars that do not belong to them, breaking into offices to secure vital information and semi-blackmailing a perpetually shirtless security expert who Claire once showed some properties (Wahlberg) into helping them work out the best way of escaping the unfortunate mess they've somehow got themselves into.
The proposition is similar to a crop of new startups that are helping hotels secure more direct bookings online rather than perpetually giving away a large part of their margins to the likes of Booking.com.
But he must also sustain Mexico's economic growth and its ability to attract foreign investment, and he must secure scores of internal reforms to calm the perpetually unhappy rebel leaders in Chiapas.
As for the perpetually picturesque waterfront, buyers with $20 million to spend are showing no post-Sandy qualms about securing the totemic Hamptons trophy: a south-of-the-highway oceanfront estate with all the trimmings of a five-star resort.
Rawls's vision is of a perpetually peaceful and cooperative international order, where liberal and decent peoples stand ready to pacify aggressive states, to secure core human rights, and to help struggling countries so long as they need assistance.
