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Word: borrower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop in interest rates on a broad front; last week most major banks cut their prime rate by yet another 1%, to 5%, enabling businessmen to borrow money at the lowest cost in almost six years. Consumers are also spending more freely, and factory orders are rising sharply. Foreign investors are pouring their newly revalued money into the market. Most important is a feeling that in an election year the President will do all that he can for the market by working to preserve an ample money supply and shoring up weak spots in the economy. Few parties have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK MARKET: A Tempered Enthusiasm | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...Viet Nam? We do everything wrong. The United States is not fit to be a world leader. Let's turn inward and handle our own problems." We were escaping from that usual American ideal of trying to do our best, trying harder, if I may borrow from Avis. Americans?many decent Americans?just began to doubt their senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Interview with the President: The Jury Is Out | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Skinner's book seems nebulous, it is because the book is not a clarion call for a new society, only a whispered voice suggesting the possibility. If we may borrow once more from Dostoevsky, Skinner is not the architect of the Crystal Palace, merely a surveyor who says that the ground exists on which to build it. Nowhere in the course of the book does Skinner draw up a blueprint for the technology of behavior, he only states that it can be drawn up. In an unfortunate and telling comparison he likens the state of his technology to the state...

Author: By B.f. Skinner, | Title: Beyond Freedom and Dignity | 12/7/1971 | See Source »

...contemporary American historian who wishes to rise above the fray, the options are few. He can reject the current revisionist trend and adopt an orthodox stance. He can synthesize the two strands and turn out the definitive work. Or he can borrow a little from each, blur the basic issues, and emerge with a book that seems statesmanlike only because it is so jejune. Adam Ulam took the last choice; the result is his intellectually anemic study, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...more than last year. That increase took effect before the Government's price freeze was imposed, and Phase II may allow another hike next year. The university has frozen scholarship funds on its own. Hence Yale has offered strapped students a complex new financing scheme: a chance to borrow $800 this year, and more later, by mortgaging their future incomes for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Study Now, Pay Later | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

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