Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, bankers are unlikely to cut off Third World borrowers entirely, no matter how low their credit worthiness sinks. Brazil alone, for example, already owes an incredible $52 billion in foreign loans, and will need to borrow several billion more during 1980. But the world's largest multinational banks have little real choice but to go ahead and extend the required credits, whether they like it or not. Without such loans, Brazil might be forced to default on payments that it already owes, and the banks could lose the billions borrowed so far. The banks and the debtors...
...emerge from the meeting was the crossed-fingers forecast of Economist David Grove that remorselessly rising petroleum prices might not bring on the worldwide financial turmoil that moneymen have been fearing. During the past year, oil-starved Third World nations such as Brazil and Korea have had to borrow billions from Western banks to pay for petroleum imports, as well as to cover even the interest on their previous debts, which already total $300 billion. Some of the largest U.S. banks are now approaching their lending limits, and bankers have started to worry about whether the cash-strapped borrowers will...
...computer also includes listings from the New York City Public Library and libraries at Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, and nine-other universities. Users of the system will be able to borrow books from any of the member libraries...
...meet later at the British embassy. But by the next day the student militants had taken control of that embassy, too, holding it for about five hours. As King was not a U.S. diplomat, his problems were more financial than political. Equipped with new documents, he managed to borrow money for air passage home and flew...
...thing, unlike last year, the games won't count in ECAC Division One competition. But more than that, the Beanpot is (to borrow an oft-used phrase) "a season in itself." Two quick wins at the Garden transcend any number of embarassing disasters in Ithaca, Potsdam or Hanover. Conversely, failing to uphold a reputation as number one in the Beanpot puts a damper on even the most successful of years...