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Word: borrower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music every Sunday through Thursday night. The doors to the small, well-lit room open at 8:30 p.m. and close at 11:30 p.m., time enough to down an inexpensive (30 cents), generous (9 ounce) mug of coffee, wander onto the terrace overlooking the Hilles courtyard, or borrow a Monopoly, Backgammon or Chess set from the counter for a game with friends. Different performers appear every night--a show from 9:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and continuous entertainment Sunday nights--playing mainly folk and jazz. Performers are paid by passing...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...good intentions is not all that was needed. The pouring of millions into the economy, increasing services by 95 per cent and raising wages across the board, created an uncontrollable inflation at a time of global recession that lowered international demand for Mexican exports. His solution was to borrow, and thus he managed to increase the Mexican debt from $13 billion to $25 billion...

Author: By Federico Salas, | Title: Honeymoon With an Elephant | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

...topographically speaking-and proclaims, "My art belongs to Dada!" But the best scene is a confrontation between Joyce and Tzara, who is hard at work cutting up volumes of poetry, putting the scraps in his hat, and drawing them out randomly to create anti-poetry. Joyce has come to borrow money for his English Players, but stays to argue with Tzara. In a wonderful monologue borrowed from one of Joyce's early essays, the writer lectures Tzara on the duties of the artist as magician, pulls a rabbit out of his hat, smiles, bids Mr. Tzara...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Pulling Out All the Stops | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...first time-payment deal they are offered -and with good reason. To test the benefits of shopping around, TIME staffers in New England, the Midwest and the California-Nevada area asked various lenders what terms they would.offer to a salesman who earned $20,000 a year and wanted to borrow $2,000 to take his wife and two children on a vacation. The salesman was assumed to be making mortgage payments on a $40,000 house, and to be paying $110 a month on an auto loan and $50 a month on department-store charge accounts. Conclusion: he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What It Really Costs | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...lowest rate was offered by a Pasadena savings and loan. If the salesman had $2,000 or more in a savings account, he could borrow on his passbook and pay 1 % more in interest on his loan than he received in interest on his savings. The high-end 22% rate was quoted by a finance company in Los Angeles. Some rates in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What It Really Costs | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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