Word: borrow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful franchiser and franchisee form a symbiotic relationship that enriches them both. The franchiser can expand a new company without having to borrow huge amounts of capital. Franchisees pay an up-front fee, which usually covers certain training and furnishings, to become part of a chain. The cost is typically lower for companies that do not require much equipment or for chains that are just starting up. The fee can be as little as $9,750 for the business cards and other materials needed to open a Coustic-Glo franchise, which specializes in cleaning ceilings, or as much...
...banks to prime corporate customers can be as high as 11.5%, compared with the 8.25% levied on similar loans in the U.S. Nils Lundgren, vice president of Pkbanken, a major Swedish bank, argued that the U.S. was responsible for pushing up interest rates around the globe because Washington must borrow so much money abroad to help finance the federal budget deficit ($221 billion last year). Said Lundgren: "The U.S. is using up the savings of the world...
...become common practice for PBH to borrow the shuttle buses under an informal agreement with the University, MacDonald said. A Harvard official said yesterday that he was unsure what liability, if any, the University would have assumed if any children were injured...
Even in Boston, you may be blessed with a blazing hot day. You'll go to the beach; your tan will be progressing nicely. Suddenly, the man or woman of your dreams may approach and ask to borrow your suntan oil. Is it love, or is it Comp S-164, "Studies in the Theme of Love in Literature...
...those predisposed to believe that any person who bugs white subway riders deserves nothing less than to have a few quick bullet shots sent in his general direction, the jury's not guilty verdict was hailed, to borrow one tabloid's headline, as a "Triumph for Common Sense." For those secure in their belief that America will forever look the other way when a Black person stands at the point of a white person's gun, the decision was but one more instance of the legal system's endemic racism...