Instead, he applied for a bank line of credit, and created a new gray area of campaign finance law.

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Tyler Rose, Kilroy's chief financial officer, said the Columbia Square project will initially be funded with a bank line of credit.

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After graduating from college in the spring of 2009, friends Jackie Graham and Emma Mahon started a fashion company with savings and a bank line of credit.

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Instead, McCain went to a bank and received a line of credit.

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Growing exports to friendly nations through loans that are repaid is an eminently sensible public policy, one we should continue through a reauthorized Export-Import Bank with a larger line of credit.

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The result: Even senior foreign nationals on assignment to the U.S. often "cannot open a bank account or get a line of credit, " says Ed Hannibal, North American mobility leader at consulting firm Mercer.

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When McCain's campaign was about to go broke over the winter, he got a line of credit from a bank.

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Penney does not have enough cash to continue operating as is beyond 2013, despite the fact that earlier this year the company arranged for a multi-billion dollar stand-by credit line with Bank of America.

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MPs, it emerged that Northern Rock, a mortgage lender especially reliant on the money markets for its funding, would be granted an emergency line of credit by the central bank.

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And if borrowers place some of the withdrawal from a home-equity loan, a line of credit or cash-out refi in a bank or brokerage account, it will likely lead to a smaller financial-aid package for the next academic year.

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