Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child in Cambridge, Mass., Martha Duffy used to satisfy her thirst for Mozart and Verdi by listening each Saturday afternoon to Texaco's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast. She was usually well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
...ruled Zaïre, that huge central African country (once known as the Belgian Congo) has dined out on its promise of wealth. The country's enormous, and still largely unexploited, deposits of copper served as a kind of collateral on which Zaïre managed to borrow extensively abroad. It now owes $2.9 billion, $800 million of which is due private lenders in the U.S., Europe and Japan. But instead of achieving steady growth, Zaïre became a textbook example of how a Third World nation can dig itself into an economic hole. Today the country...
...this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist does not visit nature for facts but for creative suggestions, and these Gass offers in abun- dance: "Blue is the color of the mind in borrow of the body; it is the color consciousness becomes when caressed...
...more blunt. Simon, who has feuded before with McNamara over his expansive management of the World Bank, noted that oil-importing countries face a $50 billion balance of payments deficit next year. Asserting that "a substantial number of countries have preferred to delay adjustment to higher oil prices and borrow abroad to finance consumption," Simon warned that from now on "world demands for capital will be massive and competition fierce...
...schools have been closed and five more may also be shut down, the teachers union avoided any firing of its members when it accepted a new contract at last year's salary level. Still, unless the deficit is reduced, the school district may not be able to borrow more money and may have to close at midterm. Detroit, with a $6 million shortfall, has closed ten elementary schools, dropped some high school varsity sports and fired 600 substitute teachers. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White has ordered $15 million slashed from this year's school budget to help ease...