It seemed unfair at the time, and Dan patiently listened to me complain about the astronomical admission standards, the absurd tuition costs, the possibility of loans, second mortgages, on and on, as patiently as he had once listened to me track my daily calories and the ounce-by-ounce fluctuations in my weight.
"Whatever happens here, and whatever we have at the start of the season, there's always going to be the possibility of loans," Hughton noted.
Simpson said the Rams, who finished third in the league, would be looking at the possibility of loan or permanent deals.
Russia, smarting under the weight of Western sanctions after last year's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, has also targeted Greece, dangling the possibility of loans for loyalty.
There will also be the possibility of educational loans for those who want to study.
In late November, Tim Loughton, a Conservative M.P., mentioned the possibility of a loan in the House of Commons.
US officials were suspicious, going so far as privately to accuse the wealthy Gulf state of Qatar of bribing the Scots by dangling the possibility of Middle East loans.
She said she would work with county officials to explore the possibility of a loan from the county's Industrial Development Agency to give the museum some working capital.
Later, however, he said that, when Mr Tsipras met with the Russian leader, the possibility of a loan "wasn't discussed".
