As stories mounted of loan misery and aggressive sales and debt collection practices, the government last year began to introduce a series of measures designed to curb the worst excesses of payday lending.
Here are Dorothy's American descendants — including her granddaughter and namesake (a shaggy-haired iconoclast who might have stepped out of a Grace Paley story) mounting a solo protest against the Iraq war.
Fox vehemently defended the actor early on, but as skepticism about his story mounted, the network announced that Smollett would be written off of the final two episodes of "Empire's" Season 5.
The opening of the 12-story Mount Kumgang Hotel here on July 2 would have been unremarkable if not for the fact that 288 of its employees, almost its entire staff, are North Koreans.
It is formed as a single large, square chamber, roofed with the usual diminishing stories, and mounted on a high, broad plinth, which is approached on its northwestern face by a staircase with recurved balustrades.
Their stories were mounted on handmade paper, accompanied with each child's art work (lino cut style prints on metallic paper) with a dramatic paper cut out front cover.
I'm afraid we're a bit busy at the mo' so the stories are mounting up before we get time to move them.
The British were ruffled after Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, read from a series of news stories while mounting a lengthy and vigorous defense of Trump's accusation during Thursday's televised White House briefing.
A recent drought had exacerbated the situation and there have been increasing stories of mounting debts of farmers, and incidences of debt-related suicides.
"By 1986, certainly the evidence was in about smoking, and the secondhand smoke story was mounting," Dr. Samet said.
