Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cardholders, and to introduce the credit card to its own 566,000 checking-account customers. It is even talking about a companion "Carte Bleue" that New Yorkers might use In neighborhood stores. What the bank aims for is a fully rounded financial service, in which a customer can save, borrow and charge everything from hospital care to trips abroad...
...accepted," noted that "this is the first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for raising the money, Archbishop Cody says the archdiocese has "a moral obligation" to borrow from banks rather than solicit Chicago parishes...
Joseph McCarthy, by no means the only man to exploit the nation's latent fears, gave the era his name since he, more than any one else, had, to borrow Richard Rovere's phrase, "surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind...
Taken together, the best features of these plans would repair the inadequacies of the current system. The money drought would be alleviated for developing nations, which would be able to borrow more readily from the international treasury. Nations suffering from temporary financial embarrassment, such as Britain, would be able to borrow fairly easily instead of devaluing. The Continental countries, by contributing their own currencies to the new reserve fund, would share in both the rewards and burdens of serving as banker to the world. And the increased supply of reserves would ease the pressure on the dollar because...
Oregon Democrat Edith Green tried to amend the bill to exempt people whose religion does not permit joining unions; her amendment was ruled "not germane." So strict were the limitations on debate that in order to complete her arguments, she three times had to borrow speaking time from the Republicans. To her fellow Democrats, Mrs. Green said acidly: "I'm greatly indebted to the people on the left side of the aisle who are so liberal they allow free expression here." Also beaten back were Republican attempts to bar union shops among unions that practice racial discrimination...