Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is gone now. The mighty presses are silent. But life must go on. To borrow a newspaperman's phrase, Don't cry over spilt milk, it might have been scotch." And so for the last few months Cantabridgians have their way to the Out of Town newsstand in the Square and there, amidst the fumes of MTA busses, have sought to compensate their gnawing sense of loss...
...mind is a basic economic fact: the principal need never be paid back, just the interest. We pass on the national debt to our children, who pay their share of the interest when due, and they in turn pass the debt to their children, etc. Actually, every generation can "borrow" from the future, each in its turn, until the end of the world, and then it will not matter...
...Board, there has been a big falloff in short selling; in January, short sales hit a four-month low of 5,736,831. Short sellers borrow stock to sell in the expectation that prices will have dropped when it comes time to buy the shares to pay back the loan. To many, the falloff in short positions indicates that the professionals are currently not willing to bet that the market is going down...
...hard for a Catholic to put his church's case frankly without appearing to be intransigent and arrogant. But if Protestants could borrow some of Mohammed's philosophical attitude, they would realize that this particular mountain is immovable. It has to be. Mohammed will have to go to the mountain...
Severe Handicap. But if the strike was a bore, it was also a painfully expensive one. The American Newspaper Guild ran out of money and had to borrow $300,000 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. New York Local 6 of the International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these...