Adopting the Home Sweet Loan scheme developed by the housing charity Shelter, Starbucks will join organisations such as the Co-op group and the Department of Communities and Local Government in offering a loan to staff who otherwise could not afford the deposit when they rent or buy a home.
"It [Sallie Mae's Signature loan] is coated as a sweet government loan, but you can get better interest rates, and better treatment, borrowing from Vito in downtown Brooklyn".
Self-dealing has become pervasive: incredibly generous executive compensation, sweet-deal loans and preferential access to I.P.O.'s were standard practice in many companies that have not yet become targets of S.E.C. investigation.
Since they have the capital, they don't need to accept any government stimulus money, unlike, say, GM, which was about two minutes away from bursting into flames had it not received sweet, sweet government loans.
And some have gone farther, including party chairman Reince Preibus, who suggested Solyndra investors got a sweet deal on the loans because one investor -- George Kaiser -- is an Obama fundraiser.
Most of them describe Loan as sweet, kind, shy, unassuming, and naïve.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
In Mr. Barlow's opinion, the loans hit a sweet spot.
The immediate cause of Johnson's downfall was a charge that he had been given a sweet deal on three home loans by the head of the Countrywide Financial Corporation, which Obama had criticized for its role in the subprime lending crisis.
If you scored a sweet set of scholarships and loans for your degree, you may not have needed much credit during your undergraduate years.
