Word: borrower
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...Hey… Mom? Could I borrow the van for the weekend? I want to fill it with sweaty college guys who stand a pretty good chance of vomiting. I also want to stock the trunk with leaky bags of ice and 30-packs of Pabst. It’s gonna be sweet...
...program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm but the whole community. "After 1997, banks stopped lending to us and some people were forced to borrow from moneylenders who charged high rates of interest," he says. Recently, Narong borrowed $475 from the Village Fund at a very low rate and used it to hire laborers to help him work his fields. Increased labor led to a greater crop yield, and this year, for the first time...
...reeks of revisionism, to borrow Bush’s word, to call U.N. involvement a victory for the administration. It’s a beautiful thing to convince an alcoholic that he needs treatment, or religion—or both in Bush’s case—but it’s only a victory insofar as admitting defeat and ending denial are the first steps to starting over. Just as when Congress approved $87 billion for reconstruction on Friday, the U.N.’s unanimous vote was more about resignation than confidence...
...President Bush Sr. the credit that he deserves for the famous reneging of the no-new-taxes pledge. We got a fairly good system that worked through most of the '90s in the pay-as-you-go discretionary caps. My first suggestion would be that maybe his son could borrow that page out of his book. Occasionally we need political judgments that might require an increase in taxes...
...Nobody ever asks to borrow spices,” says Zimmerman. “Drunk people staggering and knocking it over is a problem, though...