Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green, 63, whose $350,000 negligence suit against a Manhattan parking garage was tossed out of court. Three years ago, Green's left leg was amputated after it was crushed between the garage's self-service elevator platform and the shaft wall; an ambulance intern had to borrow a penknife from a cop to perform the operation. But an all-male jury agreed that Green had no claim. He was operating the elevator himself because he didn't trust the garage attendants to park his M.G. sports...
Like most Latins, Argentines love a lottery. Latest to capitalize on this weakness are Argentina's 100-odd savings and loan societies, each of which now holds a monthly drawing that generates almost as much excitement as the national lottery. The prize: the right to borrow money to buy a house...
...month the S & Ls set aside 20% of their lendable funds for lottery loans. Each subscriber gets a number, which is jotted on a ball that is dropped into a spinning cage. At the tense monthly draws, about 150 lucky depositors win the right to jump the queues and borrow immediately for the houses of their dreams. So popular are the lotteries that of the 200,000 middle-income Argentine families still looking for homes, 40,000 have signed up with the savings and loan societies...
...time please. First, Ivy Films. As to your troubles with the Brattle, with these I condole. As to your technical information, I suggest you check it. My impression from conversations with Richard Leacock and with the immediate past president of your organization is that Drasin did indeed borrow synch-sound equipment first conceived by Leacock...
...soon. Preparing for a cup match is an expensive and exhausting proposition. The owners of the four U.S. boats competing for the right to defend against the Aussies this year spent something like $1,000,000 among them. The U.S. crews are almost all amateurs who beg or borrow time off from their jobs and businesses to compete; Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to victory, cannot afford any more time away from his family oil business. Firmly, but politely, the New York Yacht Club replied that it would deal with the British challenge two years from...